And you thought the Water Buffalo incident was ridiculous.
Apparently, Philadelphia Weekly published a cute-animal-themed-holiday guide a few weeks ago. The merits of such an idea are questionable, but not relevant here. What’s relevant is the front cover of that magazine, which you can see here.
If you’re not a hyperlink-clicker, I’ll just explain it to you. It’s a hamster with those little curly sideburns, wearing a yarmulke, pawing a dreidel. Get it? It’s a Jewish hamster.
Which is, obviously, heinously anti-Semitic.
Like the water buffalo case, if you try really hard, you can come up with something. For instance, hamsters belong to the order Rodentia, as do less cute and potentially offensive animals like rats. Also, some people stick them up their asses. As a Jew, I can say that I would be offended if someone stuck me up their ass.
But nothing can really justify the reaction of people like Solomon Moses, who wrote in to the PW, “Where did your art director receive her training? At the Heinrich Himmler Academy of Design?”
Jeez. What does this guy have stuck up his ass?
Tags: Jews, Philadelphia Weekly, Richard Gere
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