Teens' Anti-Semitic Road Race Screeches to a Halt

[RamboLiberal]

LOS ANGELES (June 1) -- An anti-Semitic game played by high school students near the desert resort city of Palm Springs has landed them in hot water, even as school officials say there's little they can do by way of punishment because it happened off school grounds.

The game, called "Beat the Jew," involved "Nazis" in cars racing a "Jew" on foot to a checkpoint on Highway 111, a major north-south route through La Quinta, near Palm Springs. The Desert Sun newspaper reported that some 40 students played the game, which also had a Facebook page until it was taken down late last week.

The game was discovered after a fellow student reported the Facebook page to school officials.

Parents, school officials and Jewish activists, including officials from the Anti-Defamation League, were outraged, and one local rabbi demanded the students be punished. In an open letter to the editor also published on the ADL's website, Southwest Regional Director Amanda Susskind said the organization "was shocked," but also lauded the unidentified student who blew the whistle and the school officials who quickly condemned the game.

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[Initech]

1. It was pretty sick, but if you're gonna do something like that, don't announce it on Facebook!

[aquart]

2. They should have said "Israeli" instead of Jew. Then it would have been fine.

Yes. Pissed off.

[regnaD kciN]

3. Whereas, if it had been "Beat the Peace Activist," you would have been cheering...

...but only if if the cars were flying Israeli flags and they actually ran the runner over, right?

:puke:

[reggie the dog]

4. Well seeing as Israelis can be jewish, athiest, muslim, hindu, christian

or any other religion I think there would be quite a difference.

[Rex]

5. Is that a haven for skin heads? What kind of demographics are we

talking about here...nothing surprises me anymore.