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Swastikas on school walls and desks, anti- Semitic jokes and taunts toward Jewish students and worse

Beat the Jew Game:  Tip of the Iceberg

By Joy Tiz ——--June 6, 2010

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Anti-Semitism at Coachella Valley, California taxpayer funded schools is far more pervasive than the “Beat the Jew” game hatched by La Quinta High School kids. The left leaning Desert Sun has dredged up a plethora of other incidents including swastikas on school walls and desks, anti- Semitic jokes and taunts toward Jewish students and worse.
A Jewish student at Palm Desert High School spoke anonymously:
  • The student said the school ‘has swastikas 
(drawn) all over our desks ... all over campus.’ Some 
students have the Nazi symbol drawn on their skin, 
and a group of ‘wannabe skinhead’ students wear 
belts in school with buckles featuring a skull wearing a Nazi helmet.
  • The Jewish student added that one of the 
‘skinheads’ at Palm Desert High School displayed a 
photo ID he and some friends had placed in their 
cell phones with a second Jewish student's contact 
information. It was a photo of an oven, an apparent 
reference to the millions of murdered Jews whose 
bodies were burned in concentration camp ovens 
during the Holocaust. 

‘Do you get it?’ the student reported being asked.

 Another classmate on Wednesday joked to the 
student ‘How do Jews cook? In ovens,’ the student 
said.
  • A Palm Desert High student threw a penny on the 
floor in school and told the Jewish student to ‘Go 
get it,’ an apparent reference to the stereotype of 
Jews being greedy and money-hungry, the student 
said.
  • Teachers and other school personnel have heard 
the prejudiced taunts and failed to take effective 
action, the student said. In one instance earlier this 
school year, the student complained about 
classroom taunts of ‘J-j-j-Jew’ to a teacher 
assistant. The student said the teacher assistant's 
response was that the student ‘had to have thick 
skin.’
These and other incidents go unreported due to fears of retaliation. Demonstrating the awareness we expect from our bureaucrats, Sherry Johnstone, the district’s assistant superintendent of personnel is shocked, just shocked:
‘I'm totally blindsided by this. I'm totally in shock by 
what you're telling me.’
School officials insisted that they were unable to take action against the students engaged in “Beat the Jew”, asserting that the abomination took place off campus. Even assuming that none of the students ever mentioned the “game” on campus, the other incidents of Jew hate are illegal under California law:
Section 201 of the state Education Code prohibits 
‘harassment on school grounds directed at an 
individual on the basis of personal characteristics 
or status,’ including religion.
Incidents at other Coachella Valley schools:
  • Shelly Cannon, whose 13-year-old son is a 
seventh-grader at Palm Desert Charter Middle 
School, said he's told her of being teased with anti-
Semitic slurs.

‘Definitely on more than one occasion,’ Cannon 
said. ‘He tries to downplay it, because he doesn't 
want to get anybody in trouble.’
  • Anti-Defamation League officials said they 
received a report of a student at an unspecified 
Indio school being ‘flicked’ and repeatedly taunted 
with the word ‘Jew’ last year.


  • A 13-year-old Jewish student at John Glenn 
Middle School in Indio also reported jokes and 
taunts that made the student feel uncomfortable, as 
well as discovering a swastika painted on a wall.
Amanda Susskind of the ADL says that there has been an increase in the “casual use” of anti-Semitic slurs—whatever that means-- to full on hate crimes among middle and high school kids. The local ADL chairwoman was contacted by a parent:
Marcia Stein, women's philanthropy president at the 
Jewish Federation of Palm Springs and Desert Area 
and the desert chairwoman of the Anti-Defamation 
League, said she was recently contacted by a parent 
of a La Quinta High School student who was among 
the 40 in a Facebook group for the ‘Beat the Jew’ 
game, in which a student designated as a ‘Jew’ is 
chased by other students designated ‘Nazis.’

 ‘She said, ‘I'm just beside myself. I don't know how 
this could have happened, but my own son is one of 
the 40 children who says, Mom, it's just a game. 
You're making such a big deal about it. It's nothing. 
No one got hurt,’ Stein said.

 The mother, Stein added, said, “I can't believe he 
thought that was OK.’
Maybe her son was listening to veteran reporters like Helen Thomas. Or the President of the United States’ endless abuse of Israel. Hey, maybe the kid caught that thigh slapper about the Jewish merchant told by Obama’s National Security Adviser, Jim Jones. Predictably, budget cuts are being blamed for the rise in anti-Semitism. “Tolerance programs”, apparently, require massive funding. That’s a tough argument to make with a straight face when your school is five miles away from the Tolerance Education Center, founded by Holocaust survivor, Earl Greif I’m willing to wager that any one of the ninety-two Holocaust survivors living in the Coachella Valley would be happy to do some outreach to the schools—pro bono. They might even be willing to have a talk with parents.

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