Media 2 week 6

THE JEWS ARE EVIL?????

This post is about Jews and why the Palestinians believe that they should be dead. The study states that the PA (Palestinian Authority) has systematically "built a case againt Jewish existence much as a prosecuter would build a legal case in a court of law to demand a death sentence". The PA believes that the Jewish faith is actually evil. Jews are supposedly unfaithful deceitful, and corrupt, and God's enemies and the Jewish tradition is "treacherous behavior". This is labeled as something that cannot be changed. Jews' way of life can not be changed, and they will always be evil. Because the Jews are evil they pose a threat to the Palestinians and everyone else in the world. Since they are a threat to the world, and the Jews' evil traditions and nature won't change, then they must be slaughtered.

This is a harsher punishment than what we learned about last week while talking about Jews and how they are trying to succeed as people in the United States. This study claims that Jews will never fit in and they will always be different because they are evil. The Jews at least had a chance to change in the United States where in other countries, they are just slaughtered because they are Jewish.

This study was very disturbing to me because I knew that the world was not at complete peace, but to see it written down and in comics and videos is more disturbing to realize the extreme amounts of hate from one race to another. The newspapers in Palestine even had crosswords that were bringing hatred to the Jewish faith and Jews in general. I feel that the Jews have suffered enough, but they have clearly suffered a lot less in the United States. The only thing they had to do here was to build a rep for themselves and work hard to achieve greatness while in other countries Jews were hiding in order to not be killed by Palestinians.

This article and picture were found at (http://www.pmw.org.il/KAJ_eng.htm)

Media 1 week 6

Law & Order Episode Talks about Hating Jews.

Last week, I was watching a Law and Order marathon when one episode talked about the hatred of Jews.

Chevy Chase plays Mitch Carroll, an alcoholic out of work actor. The show starts with Carroll getting pulled over by some cops because he was swerving on the road. When the Cops smelled alcohol on his breath they asked him to get out of the car and noticed that the front of his shirt is covered with something that looks like blood. Carroll says that it is just wine, but they haul him in anyway. While still intoxicated, he is confronted by a woman Cop and Carroll noticed that she was Jewish. He starts cursing at her and telling her that he does not want to talk to a Jew Cop. He even stoops so low by calling her "sugar tits". After he sobers up, Carroll does not remember anything that was said. The detectives, however, found a body of a Jewish woman in show biz across town and knew that Mitch Carroll had something to do with it. To make a long story short, it turns out that the son of Mitch Carroll was the one that killed the Jewish lady because his dad had coached him for so long to hate Jews. The reason why Carroll hated Jews so much was because he made one remark to a Jewish actor and then the rest of the Jews in show business did not want to hire him, so that is why he formed his son into a Jew hating machine. Mitch Carroll , at the end of the show, was sent to jail for helping the boy figure out how to murder the lady.

This show relates to what we were talking about last week. The Jews were not accepted in America when they first arrived and they still are not completely accepted by all people. The show was shocking, but true to today's society. The women and men of the Jewish faith are still stereotyped to being swindlers of money and known for ripping people off and only looking out for number one. The Jews had to look out for number one in the past as well because they were not accepted into the community like everyone else.

How do I feel about this show? I loved it. I think it was because we had just read about the Jews and their acceptance into the United States and then the same week there is an episode on people being hateful toward Jews. The show really captured the feeling of tension between the Carroll family and the rest of the characters. Chevy Chase didn't do a bad job either. I think he portrayed the role quite well. The only thing that bothered me when I looked up the date that this show aired was the fact that it aired the November after the Mel Gibson incident when he got pulled over and stated how he really felt about Jews. Clearly Law & Order were just going with the flow and wanted to do something based on the story before someone else did. The anti-semitism was based off of Mel Gibson, but the rest of the story was made up in order to actually have a murder involved in the show. See if you can watch it online, because I think this is the first time that I have ever seen Chevy Chase in a serious and very dramatic role. To me he will always be Clark Griswald.

The picture was found on (http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&q=Chevy+Chase+Law+%26+Order).