Jewish community takes on Comedy Central's 'anti-Semitic' stereotypes

[Scurrilous]

A video game currently available on Comedy Central’s website, featuring a character named “Jew Producer” and a killer robot named “I.S.R.A.E.L.,” is raising protests in the Jewish community.

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"A video game currently available on Comedy Central’s website, featuring a character named “Jew Producer” and a killer robot named “I.S.R.A.E.L.,” is raising protests in the Jewish community.

The game, “Drawn Together,” based on the network’s politically incorrect animated series of the same name, depicts “Jew Producer,” a character that has a speaker for a head and is taken to task for failing to kill certain animated characters. A robot called “the Intelligent Smart Robot Animation Eraser Lady” (I.S.R.A.E.L.) is then sent in to do the job, unleashing destruction and murdering children.

In a letter written to Comedy Central and obtained by the Forward, Abraham Foxman, head of the Anti-Defamation League, wrote: “We agree with complaints that this video game and other video clips and trailers featuring the ‘Jew Producer’ character play into and encourage offensive anti-Semitic and anti-Israel stereotypes. While that may not have been the intent, the fact that your site caters to and potentially influences such a wide audience, including children and young adults, is especially troubling to us.” The letter concludes by requesting that Comedy Central remove the game from its site, or alternatively put it behind a protective wall so that minors cannot access it."

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"Simon Plosker, managing editor of HonestReporting, a website that monitors Mideast and anti-Israel bias, told the Forward that he was skeptical when he heard about the game from subscribers to his e-mail list, but after seeing it, was “extremely shocked that something this blatant could appear on a mainstream media network like Comedy Central.”

A Facebook group called “Comedy Central – I.S.R.A.E.L. Attack game is offensive. Remove it” had more than 1,500 members as of May 17."

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-community-takes-on-comedy-central-s-anti-semitic-stereotypes-1.291189

[dipsydoodle]

1. 1,500 members

That many ?

[aquart]

2. Because you don't find the game offensive?

[dipsydoodle]

5. Because

if I rounded up my friends to get Tiny Tim's Tiptoe Through The Tulips to No. 1 I could probably manage more than that on FB in a day. The 1500 actually seems to reflect that others are not all that bothered.

You should maybe also allow for the fact that I'm UK and our TV satire has always been and probably always will be considerably more vicious than that of the USA. So - everyone here has grown up with and is used to it. Also - unlike the USA where satire whatever can be used as a defence against charges of defamation and libel etc that is not true of UK courts where that defence cannot be used at all. Private Eye have been victims of that on many occasions.

[Chulanowa]

3. What? Drawn Together is offensive? Shocking!

To bad it's not a Mohammed sculpted out of pig shit, that would be something to admire, right Abe?

[Kurska]

4. This is all in reference to the Drawn together movie.

Which featured both characters. I'm Jewish I thought they were hilarious.