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2012-10-17 Europe

'Good Jew' hashtag is third most popular on French Twitter

[Times of Israel] Jewish groups protest wave of anti-Semitic messages

A French nonprofit said it was considering making complaints against some Twitter users following an kaboom of French-language anti-Semitic messages.

SOS Racisme, a Gay Paree-based anti-discrimination organization, made the statement on its website after the phrase UnBonJuif on Oct. 10 became the third most popular hashtag among French Twitter users.

Literally meaning "a good Jew," it served thousands of Twitter users to enter what the French daily Le Monde termed "a competition of anti-Semitic jokes."

One Twitter account registered to the username "Marcel Leblanc" posted a picture of an emaciated Jewish woman taken in a Nazi concentration camp as his or her interpretation of what "a good Jew" meant. Others tweeted that "a good Jew is a dead Jew."

Jonathan Hayoun, president of the Union of French Jewish Students, or UEJF, called on Twitter to "put in place a new system to moderate" anti-Semitic tweets. His organization expressed "grave concern" in light of how popular the hashtag has become.

On Monday, the most popular hashtag in La Belle France was LaRafle, meaning "the roundup" -- the title of a 2010 film about the Holocaust-era deportation of French Jews that was aired the previous day by TF1, a public broadcaster. Twitter defined the LaRafle hashtag as "related to UnBonJuif." Many tweets containing the LaRafle hashtag were anti-Semitic, and some users denied the Holocaust.

Michel Zerbib, director the news department of Radio J, La Belle France's largest Jewish radio station, said that anti-Semitic tweeting matches are "a new but unsurprising development, as the virtual space releases many of the inhibitions that limit anti-Semitic speech in the public sphere."

Posted by trailing wife 2012-10-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Others tweeted that "a good Jew is a dead Jew."

This is what passes for wit on the Continent these days? No wonder Europe is *bleep*ed.

Posted by SteveS 2012-10-17 01:13|| 2012-10-17 01:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Viva La FU. Not even French Panda Bears get thru.

Posted by newc 2012-10-17 03:35|| 2012-10-17 03:35|| Front Page Top

#3 I heard a Muslim Palestinian refer to an Arabic-speaking Jewish importer/businessman he liked to visit to practice his conversational skills as a "good Jew", even though he sold liquor, and I thought nothing of it at the time but now I'm wondering about the real nature of their business ties...on same island as previous Hezzie plot disrupted exporting weapons by FBI/DOJ in 2002.

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck 5095 2012-10-17 12:48|| 2012-10-17 12:48|| Front Page Top

#4 What the hell is wrong with these people? Its like EU leftism has stripped them of all their humanity.

Posted by Ydaerb 2012-10-17 19:27|| 2012-10-17 19:27|| Front Page Top

#5 "Its like EU leftism has stripped them of all their humanity."

Are you sure they even had humanity of which to be stripped, Ydaerb ?

Posted by Barbara 2012-10-17 21:07|| 2012-10-17 21:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Humanity is an individualist trait, an option to do or not do when a situation arises.

When it is coerced, a person forced to make a decision on understanding that not doing so results in some sort of penalty/negative effect, it ceases to be an option in an exotentialist arena. The effect may be the same, something which is called humane, but by a different origination it is not a humane decision but a forced action requiring others to affect a penalty. That is collectivism; the leftist way.

Too simplified, an omelet and a quiche are both basically egg pies. However, how they are made differentiates them.

I know a number of fellow colleagues who will quit the volunteer fire department, even if it becomes pay (and certainly so if people are forced to serve two years as part of Obama's civilian corp draft) because to even accept payment for their deed negates its volunteer aspect.

Leftism's, collectivism's, point is to remove the individual thought characteristics. Free will for better or worse, or authoritarian force of behavior for results which (at least at first) look like what would happen if all people were good. Its a false result put up with ribbons and bows.

Me wanting to help my neighbors does not give me the right to force others to help me help my neighbors.

Posted by swksvolFF 2012-10-17 22:47|| 2012-10-17 22:47|| Front Page Top

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