Video Shows Children Playing Mock Game of ‘Stab the Jew’

Kids like to play games. Sometimes those games are make-believe and are based on dense political messages and situations that have been boiled down to one, well, game. Take cowboys and Indians, for example, in “which the cowboys are trying to settle and explore, and the Indians are trying to protect from interlopers,” writes website eHow. As the game goes, both sides basically hide, and when a member on either team is seen, “cowboys should point their fingers like guns and make “bang-bang” noises, while Indians should mimic firing bows and arrows.

Play dead if someone “shoots” at you and you’re not behind cover. Make your death appropriately dramatic; arms flying up in the air, body writhing on the ground, etc. No getting back up after you’re “dead.”

Another game kids are apparently playing today is “Stab the Jew.” In the video below, which was recently picked up by The Jewish Press (who themselves picked it up from a Facebook page dubiously named “I Love Freedom”), a group of kids play—and record—a session of “Stab the Jew.” I cannot confirm where this was filmed (The Jewish Press writes that it’s from “Palestinian Authority controlled areas”), but it appears that the video dates back to November of last year. (One YouTube poster wrote then that the children were Palestinian, and the game occurred at the Far’a refugee camp near Jenin in the West Bank.)

Regardless, it remains disturbing to watch a group of kids—wherever they may be, and whomever they may be—practice-stabbing Jews in kippahs, and calling for their mothers and God (it sounds like they yell pronunciations of “ima” “Elohim”) after they’ve been attacked.

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