{"id":2369,"date":"2015-02-10T22:31:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T22:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gphrc.org\/?p=2369"},"modified":"2015-04-30T18:17:52","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T18:17:52","slug":"sraeli-teens-dressed-kkk-black-face-mock-lynching-school-purim-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gphrc.org\/index.php\/sraeli-teens-dressed-kkk-black-face-mock-lynching-school-purim-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli teens dressed as KKK and in \u2018black face\u2019 for mock lynching at school Purim party"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israeli teens dressed as KKK and in \u2018black face\u2019 for mock lynching at school Purim party
\nIsrael\/Palestine Allison Deger on March 21, 2014 88 Comments
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\nPurim carnival where Israeli teens dressed as members of the KKK and in black face for a mock lynching. (Photo: Mizbala)
\nPurim carnival where Israeli teens dressed as members of the KKK and in black face for a mock lynching. (Photo: Mizbala)<\/p>\n

A group of Israeli high school boys dressed as members of the Ku Klux Klan and others in black face make up to stage a mock lynching for a class party for the Jewish holiday of Purim. Photographs of over a dozen teens from Harel High School in Mevasseret Zion, a cushy suburb west of Jerusalem, first surfaced a few days after the holiday, which functionally serves as Israel\u2019s Halloween. In the photos some of the students are dressed in white robes and armed with a large wooden cross, while three others are in black face make up and afro-style wigs and kneeling as if their arms are shackled. The Israeli media outlet Mizbala screen grabbed the images from Facebook, which was then circulated on social media, creating a firestorm of backlash.<\/p>\n

A day later Israel\u2019s Channel 2 news followed up, and the school\u2019s principal said she found nothing inappropriate about the youths\u2019 dressing as white supremacists on the verge of a racially motivated vigilante murder. From the Times of Israel:<\/p>\n

\u2018The costume created an interesting and important discussion,\u2019 Rina Even-Tov said, according to Channel 2 News.<\/p>\n

\u2018This act essentially created a platform for discussion, it is no different from a Nazi costume\u2019 she concluded.<\/p>\n

Indeed it seems permissiveness towards the students\u2019 costumes was pervasive at Harel High. On the school\u2019s Flickr page I found more images of the youngsters in their KKK gear, except in these they are posed with the students in black face using faux handcuffs, dragging them from the tail end of a wooden platform that the \u201cklansmen\u201d are carrying overhead. The photograph cuts out what\u2019s above the platform, but from the shoes, pants and top\u2014which are in frame\u2014it looks like they are parading a student costumed as a caged African American.<\/p>\n

In another photograph the robed boys are at the center of scores of teenagers in an outdoor class party, then later they were photographed indoors. It seems they wore the offending outfits throughout the day. Other images in the photo set show a different group of students dressed as settlers wearing orange shirts with the Hebrew slogan \u201cJews do not expel Jews!\u201d<\/p>\n

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– See more at: http:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2014\/03\/israeli-dressed-lynching#sthash.P15jTepZ.dpuf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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