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Are WE Anti-Semitic?

Today we received a phone call from someone at a Hillel at a small university. She claimed that she felt uncomfortable distributing the latest issue of New Voices because she felt that some of the lists we featured on the cover promoted anti-semitism.

She was particulary offended by the list called: Top 5 Most Bizarre Jewish Rituals, because the number one slot is "baking the blood of Christian babies in Matzoh."

Maybe we just had too much faith in our readers' ability to get when something is a joke, but did we really need to clarify that we weren't serious?

This isn't the first time I've been astonished at who cries anti-semitism, nor am I surprised that Hillel staff has the time to call up the only magazine for college students to tell them when they screw up. I suggested she write a letter to the editor and plan an event to see if the magazine really does encourage hatred toward Jews by people of other faiths.

In the meantime, I guess we have to consider if we did cross a line or if Hillel staffers just don't have senses of humor.


 

Anonymous


Are Jews oversensitive?

I have been in this situation myself. These days, a Jew can find true Antisemitism ;ook9ing in any of the 360 degress of a circle. Antisemitism is all around us. So, maybe we have become somewhat oversensitive to these incidents.

Sometimes humor can be very subtle. It becomes difficult to genenrate subtle humor against a flood of Antisemitic accusations by people who truly believe them. Look at how popular the "Proticols of the Learned Elders of Zion" has become. Not just in the Muslim world, but all over the world.

SO I feel that people that want to generate humoir about Jews, especially Jews themsaelves, need to understand that this is not the time to be subtle. We must nake our humor so outrageous that everyone will understand we are being funny.

Thank you,
Jeffrey Levine
drexpert@xemaps.com





Joey Kurtzman


I laughed

For what it's worth, I laughed when I read "She was particulary offended by the list called: Top 5 Most Bizarre Jewish Rituals, because the number one slot is 'baking the blood of Christian babies in Matzoh.'" A satirical faux-educational "explainer" for young Jews which demystifies our grandparents' wacky Old World practice of baking matzoh with the blood of heathen children? That's just good comedy. And the thought of an indignant Hillel person calling to bitch you out for it is intrinsically funny, too.

Maybe people are touchier than usual about the blood libel because of recent events at Bar Ilan. But "We must nake our humor so outrageous that everyone will understand we are being funny" pretty much precludes satire altogether. I vote against.





Elisa


never, ever

underestimate institutional judaism's anti-semitism sensitivity. 

they're such intellectual hemophilliacs.  




Anonymous


Yes, you are anti-semitic

Yes, you stupid morons are anti-semitic. Jewcy.com is actually one of the most anti-semitic sites on teh web. Joey Kurtzman is a disgusting scumbag for having the nerve to actually promote Kevin MacDonald's jew-hating books. Half the content on this site appears to be the promotion of every anti-Jew bigotry imaginable. You do it because you think you're "witty" or being cute, somehow. There's a reason you losers are "internet bloggers" and not respected columnists for well-known magazines or newspapers. Because you're idiots. You've somehow gathered a bunch of Jews that aren't particularly smart, yet think that being sarcastic and "controversial" by playing up anti-semitic stereotypes is somehow funny. Except you aren't being witty, and you aren't doing anything to disprove the very stereotypes you mock.





JewcyCraig


Regardless

The issue isn't about Jewcy, it's about New Voices Magazine. Of course Jewcy is secretly a front for the Green Police.





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Mahler


Not bigoted, but stupid

I detest magazines like New Voices, Tikkun, and Heeb.  Not only are jokes like this played out, it just seems like all these publications do is commodify the Jewish identity with a smug, hipster, cultural-insider motif, to be consumed by bored people who otherwise would have nothing to do with Judaism.

Put down 'Orientalism' for one second and read at least the first half of 'The Oslo Syndrome' by Dr. Kenneth Levin.  The assimilationist positions put forth by these magazines is nothing new at all; only the packaging has been updated for our times.