Some LSE students face disciplinary action after participating in a Nazi-themed drinking game during a student union skiing trip in France last month. The game included swastika playing card formations and ‘salutes and respect’ to ‘the Fuhrer’, all of which continued in the presence of a deeply-offended Jewish student. As tensions soared, a brawl occured which left the Jewish student with a broken nose.
What ghastly, ghastly people. You can read more about this shocking story here and here.
Chas – enjoy your blog. Off topic -on a recent cross-country trip across America we stayed at the Best Western in Boise, Idaho. Leaving the hotel there was an elderly couple struggling with their luggage at the exit door, so i ran ahead and gave them a hand. I said you speak funny where are you from(my own brand of humor) she replied “London.” he turns towards me and asks where are you from? i reply “Brooklyn” his response:” oh, you must be one of those Jewish fellows!”
I hope you went out and put their bags further away than they started. Wouldn’t want them to think us Jews are only good for carrying bags!Or am I too sensitive?
nope, my wife and I laughed it off. and no, you are not too sensitive.
He’s allowed to say ‘you speak funny’ but the other guy can’t say ‘you must be Jewish’?
Throw the book at the feckers
Yes.
LSE == London School of Economics, in this case. Apparently anti-semitism still festers not too far underground, just waiting for the right conditions to erupt again.
It’s excellent that the head of the Student Union has strongly condemned this action, and is committed to preventing any repetition, as well as punishments for the perpetrators.