Israel sorry for video poking fun at Gaza dead


by Sunny Hundal    
9:20 am - June 7th 2010

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This is very shocking and callous:

The Israeli government has been forced to apologise for circulating a spoof video mocking activists aboard the Gaza flotilla, nine of who were shot dead by Israeli forces last week.

The YouTube clip, set to the tune of the 1985 charity single We Are the World, features Israelis dressed as Arabs and activists, waving weapons while singing: “We con the world, we con the people. We’ll make them all believe the IDF (Israel Defence Force) is Jack the Ripper.”

Here’s the video

It features a group led by the Jerusalem Post’s deputy managing editor Caroline Glick (so much for journalistic balance) and includes the lyrics: “There’s no people dying, so the best that we can do is create the biggest bluff of all“.

There’s also: “We must go on, pretending day by day, that there is in Gaza, crisis hunger and plague“.

Israeli spokesperson Mark Regev tells the Guardian: “I called my kids in to watch it because I thought it was funny.”

I’m sure those imaginary dead people from the Flotilla appreciate the humour.

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1. C'llr. Rupert Read

Extraordinary and sickening. What is perhaps most remarkable is the blatant anti-Arab racism: the mockery of accents, of headscarfs, the interpolation of Arab words like ‘Yalla’ to make fun.

2. Left Outside

I just watched about a minute of it and had to stop. Its awful. Who thought it was a good idea?

3. Macatel

You may be interested to know that this video is being linked to by the Chairman of the judges at a prominent music competition entitled “Israeli and Ernest Bloch Music Competition”, at odds with the ethos of the organisation behind the competition, Jewish Music Institute (JMI.org.uk)

There is a blog article about it here: http://whistlesblown.blogspot.com/2010/06/israeli-ernest-bloch-music-competitions.html

4. sally

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Israelis must be so proud.

5. sally

Why I am I not allowed to use the Goebbels analogy?

6. Nick

I think its funny. And more than a bit true.

7. Annie

Does the racist Israeli video open the door now for some anti-semitic gas chamber music video?

8. Nick

Already done: http://www.flickr.com/photos/amitai/sets/72057594067999377/

Israelis do anti-semitic jokes so much better than the real anti-semites:)

9. another nick

i’m sick of people poking fun of the holocaust. anne frankly, i won’t stand for it


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    http://is.gd/cFNRb they are not sorry for shooting those people. It's not self defence to shoot someone in the back of the head.

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