(Jewish Group) Religious students face backlash for Purim skit mocking Mizrahi Jews
A racist Purim video made by religious high school girls in Jerusalem sparked a wave of condemnations when it began circulating widely online on Thursday.
The YouTube video made by students at Ulpana Horev (the Hebrew term for a religious girls’ high school) was pulled down just a couple of hours after it began to generate backlash, more than a month after it was posted online.
In the clip, titled “If the ulpana were Mizrahi,” students can be seen with dark paint on their faces, giving themselves new more Mizrahi-sounding names, and acting according to gross stereotypes of Middle Eastern Jews.
In various sections of the video the girls, sporting a natural look, contrast ostensibly cultured, polite Ashkenazi behavior, with the Mizrahi version — in which they are smeared with dark blotches and appear to act in a base, boorish and rude manner.
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Disgusting!
