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[nick]

Pupils suspended for 'Kick a Jew' Day[/b]

Students at a Florida school have been suspended for participating in ‘Kick a Jew’ Day.

Ten pupils at North Naples Middle School were suspended for a day, after a female student told the school’s head that she believed she had been kicked as part of ‘Kick a Jew Day’.

Local expressed concerns that the students may have been inspired by TV show South Park where an episode featured ‘Kick a Ginger Day’. The attacks are believed to have been co-ordinated via a Facebook group.

A tough anti-bullying law was passed in Florida last year, which will mean that schools that fail to do enough to stop bullying may lose state funding.

The school’s headteacher Margaret Jackson held an emergency assembly after the incident, stressing the need for respect and tolerance. The students will spend the first 20 minutes of every school day focusing on bullying and different character traits.

David Barkey, of the Florida Anti-Defamation League, said they had been consulted over the incident.

He said: “You are talking about an incident that has anti-Jewish bias if not antisemitism. You have Jewish students being singled out, harassed and assaulted.

“If the allegations are true, it is possible these students violated Florida’s new anti-bullying law. And, if students were physically assaulted, it could rise to the level of criminal conduct.”

Rabbi James Perman, of Temple Shalom in North Naples, commented: “I haven’t seen anything like it in my 17 years in Naples. No child deserves this kind of treatment. Their parents are understandably outraged.

“So far it seems that the school system has taken appropriate measures and we applaud their efforts. At this point, teaching sensitive awareness is more important than punishing anyone.”

“Beyond that, there are critical issues for the entire Jewish community and beyond. These are not new issues for us here in Naples. These ten kids did not invent antisemitism. They found a sympathetic response that was already there on some level.”

In October last year, four students were suspended from a St Louis’ high school for participating in ‘Hit a Jew Day’, where one Jewish student at Parkway West Middle School in Chesterfield was hit in the face.

[BillRoy]

Yep- pretty hilarious. Good to see you took the time to make a whole post about it...what happened, someone already answered your "Why are footballs shaped the way they are." post.

I wish someone would come and hit me.

Bill Cohen

[nick]

I'm sorry to hear you're jewish .

p.s before you go off the deep end with ur im tough, i dont care for religion so i could care less if u were a jew, christian, muslim, hindu, mormon, or any other make belief bullshit that was created to take money from hard working people.

[BillRoy]

No need to be sorry about it, as I am pretty damn proud of it. If you want something to be sorry about, be sorry about those who aren't as tolerant as we should be. Believe me, I would have the same reaction if they had a "Kick a Canadian" day or a "Kick a Short Guy" day.

It is tough to be tolerant of those who refuse to be.

[nick]

Why are you proud of being jewish might i ask? Were you born in Isreal?

If not, Who cares. Religion is a big cult so you're happy to be in one of like 10 different massive cults.

[packsyD22]

Why are you proud of being jewish might i ask? Were you born in Isreal?

If not, Who cares. Religion is a big cult so you're happy to be in one of like 10 different massive cults.

You know i don't know what has gotten into you lately, but you have been a huge douche bag as of late. You should drop the little act already. And no i am not jewish....just noticing.

[VeniVediV1ci]

nick is becoming an outcast

[nick]

how am i a douche bag?

would u see me up in arms and crying if they had a "kick a white guy" day? fuck no cause i dont give a shit.

[nick]

nick is becoming an outcast

it's funny tho cause i could be the second hitler and people still hate you more than me

[nick]

I will say, Bill Im sorry if u felt offended by the initial post. I didnt mean it like that. I wanted to post it more for awareness and put the haha dont go to Florida cause well...ya.

I mean, you guys all make Canadian jokes all the time and that's cool and dandy, but the moment i bring up something, omg nick you're such an internet douche bag.

[VeniVediV1ci]

nick i think you'd get voted off the island 3rd. After Feisty and jsence of course...

[trendon]

I will say, Bill Im sorry if u felt offended by the initial post. I didnt mean it like that. I wanted to post it more for awareness and put the haha dont go to Florida cause well...ya.

I mean, you guys all make Canadian jokes all the time and that's cool and dandy, but the moment i bring up something, omg nick you're such an internet douche bag.

Because Canada is like the Italians; it is still OK to make fun of them. Other groups, not so much. It is bullshit that ADULTS can't handle "sticks and stones" but it is what it is.

Context has a lot to do with it, Bill doesn't know you. If Bill and I were sitting at a restaurant with a bunch of friends and it came time to pay, we can all joke, "Hey, Bill, don't forget to tip you Jewish bastard!" In between the laughter, he'll fire back, "I'm not tipping out on your 100 drinks, you drunken Irish fuck." Whee!

Now try saying that if Bill and I don't know each other. Laughter not so much.

[nick]

I will say, Bill Im sorry if u felt offended by the initial post. I didnt mean it like that. I wanted to post it more for awareness and put the haha dont go to Florida cause well...ya.

I mean, you guys all make Canadian jokes all the time and that's cool and dandy, but the moment i bring up something, omg nick you're such an internet douche bag.

Because Canada is like the Italians; it is still OK to make fun of them. Other groups, not so much. It is bullshit that ADULTS can't handle "sticks and stones" but it is what it is.

Context has a lot to do with it, Bill doesn't know you. If Bill and I were sitting at a restaurant with a bunch of friends and it came time to pay, we can all joke, "Hey, Bill, don't forget to tip you Jewish bastard!" In between the laughter, he'll fire back, "I'm not tipping out on your 100 drinks, you drunken Irish fuck." Whee!

Now try saying that if Bill and I don't know each other. Laughter not so much.

I understand what you're saying in this post Trendon.

If Billroy is of Israeli decent than my posts were out of bad taste. BUT if hes only jewish because of religion, then its just another comment.

[BillRoy]

Nick, my grandfather escaped from the Majdanek Camp in early 1944 after being captured by the German Army in Warsaw and sent to this Death Camp

During a prisoner transfer, he and 4 other men escaped- they were picked up by a Soviet Army patrol and eventually made their way back to the Soviet Union and would marry and start a life.

They my grandfather, grandmother, uncle and father came to the States in 1962 and settled in Houston.

Now, I have done my pilgrimmage to Israel in order to retrace the steps & events of Jesus Christ's life. But my decent is Polish & Russian. Whether my credentials meet your approve for being Jewish is immaterial to me. I know who I am and where I have come from. Your acknowlegment of "Kick a Jew" day shows that we are still a long way from being a unified nation and world. Hopefully the day will come that you champion a cause that benefits you, your people, your country and your world as a whole.

But don't worry, I have dealt with the "Don't ask Bill to pick up the check" from the closest of my friends; and I give them the tried and true "Fuck-off" look as I glady pick up the tab......I just don't forget the EXACT amount they owe me for it."

[nick]

im still at the responses when i search "Canada" and 3 diff people made comments in the first 5 posts i saw response too, but I mean, fuck that right?

[trendon]

Oh, and by the way, Florida. It is always Florida. The Florida-est part of Florida is the Gulf Coast area. There's a string of relatively small cities to the far southwest of Florida that seem to produce an disproportionate amount of weird and retarded Florida stories.

A few months ago there was a guy who got hospitalized trying to break back into jail. However, it was more than a week later - after he had already got out of the hospital - that authorities went to his house and arrested him for trespassing at the jail.

There's no doubt you see weird shit come out of Miami, Tampa, Jacksonville, etc., but those are all heavily populated areas. You'd expect it anyway. But if you really want to see the epicenter of fail in Florida, you have to look at Naples, Cape Coral, etc.

I don't know what's wrong with people there. It must be something in the water.

[nick]

it's the south, what do you expect?

[DRiccio21]

i'd be the first in line for 'kick a nick' day

[shel311]

A couple of posts in this thread are absolute classics LOL.

[nick]

i'd be the first in line for 'kick a nick' day

when you're out and you make a joke, do people laugh because they think it's funny?