French Students call Jesus 'Dirty Jew'

PARIS: French Jewish students plan a "shock campaign" against anti-Semitism next week with advertisements showing pictures of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary with the words "Dirty Jew" scrawled across them.


The pictures are due to run in several newspapers from next Tuesday while the Roman Catholic Church in France is holding a week-long meeting of Catholics from around Europe to discuss how to revive their faith in the continent's major cities.

Yonathan Arfi, head of the Union of French Jewish Students (UEJF) sponsoring the campaign, said several newspapers had agreed to run the ads but billboard advertisers had refused.

"It's a shock campaign so it's better in a newspaper where you can read and think or turn the page if it's too shocking," he told LCI television.

"It's good if people talk about anti-Semitism," he said.

A government report published on Tuesday said a recent wave of anti-Semitic violence posed a threat to the fabric of French society and was not restricted to a few extreme right-wingers or disaffected Muslim youths, as often assumed.

One campaign poster shows Christ with open arms while the other depicts Mary carrying the baby Jesus. Underneath both is written: "What if anti-Semitism were everybody's business?"

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Originally posted by Kidfinger
we would probably send troops to occupy France

Originally posted by Valhall
DC...

why in the world would you make such an exaggerated statement? Though these Jewish French students' approach is a bit tasteless, their point is well-taken by this American Christian.

Furthermore, just like we don't get to take groups of homosexuals that promote paedophilia and smear it all over the homosexual community, we don't get to take a minority group of Jewish French students and paint the whole population of France as tasteless and sacrilegious to the Christian faith.

Hyperbole tends to get us no where productive OR peaceful.

Originally posted by Kidfinger
I hope not, as we would probably send troops to occupy France

Originally posted by Valhall
Exactly FlyerFan!

Oh my ferking gersh those evil handful of Jewish French students are trying to pull the Christian French population into addressing anti-semitic violence via a shock and awe campaign!

Let's nuke the whole of France!

Gawd-bless the knee-jerk peanut gallery on this board, because I sure don't feel very compassionate toward it right now.

Originally posted by IMMORTAL
If you're American, you should be standing up for the French person's right to freedom of expression. Rather than suppressing Freedom of expression around the world, American's should value freedom above all. No wonder America stands by and does nothing while her own freedoms erode.

Originally posted by Odd
Oh, bah, DC... people have a right to be up in arms about this....

....they'd just be more liberal than the ones that are sick of Christ-bashing.