The Case for Borat

Being Jewish, is being in a minority. Minorities can point out things to each other that are funny. For us, the empty seat at Passover, our mothers effective use of guilt, our 'JAP's' jewelry compulsions, etc., make us laugh but some of this is fuel for the Goyim to turn into reasons that could spark anti-semitic actions. Cohen is working to be famous and if thinks he can do this by singing about throwing his Jewish brothers and sisters down a well, will get him his fame, it's sad. He knows Torah and it's a shunda that he puts gelt before G-D.

WHY call ANYONE a "goy"? In Hebrew, (or perhaps Yiddish), it means "stranger". Heck...how can you label anyone a "stanger" if you haven't really known him or her at all? Isn't labeling all non-Jews "goyim" just another prejudicial point? Calling them "non-Jews" is bad enough....I mean, aren't non-Jews Human Beings like anyone else????? Aren't Jews Human Beings likI e anyone else????? I hate to say that Hitler was right in anything.....but it is said that Hitler took his "Master Race" idea from the "Chosen People" idea that the Jews are said to have!!!!!!! : ( To me, there are are only "Human Beings".....and God, above. Or, as a self-help expert once said, "GET BEYOND TRIBAL". I think the First Commandment says that, too: "I AM THE LORD THY GOD....THOU SHALT HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME." Thinking your racial/religious group is better than others is, sort of, I think, making a kind of "God" of it.... If the Jews were ever "chosen" for anything, it was 1)To help God give the Ten Commmandments to the world, (5000 plus years ago), and/or 2)"Chosen" FOR helping others....NOT BECAUSE the Jews are better, (or at least that's what my rabbi taught us.) I believe that the words "goy" and "goyim" are equivalent to any other hateful racial group words, such as "kike" (Jews), "whitey", (whites), etc. I hate any labeling of anyone....but if you have to draw a distinction, PLEASE try not to use "goy" or "goyim"...meaning "stranger(s)". If distinction must be made, please try to use "Gentile"....which at least has a connotative connection with the word "gentle", or "gentleman" or "gentlewoman". Hopefully, if we use these terms, even the most virulent anti-semites will begin to live up to them! : )

I see only one person got the point. Only an idiot would think that the movie is anti-Semitic; this Cohen paints a picture whereby we believe that Kazakhstan is incredibly anti-Semitic - perhaps as much as Europe in the 16th century. Furthermore, he makes fun of these muslims in a despicable way, such as the ruse with the toilet during the dinner with the Christian family, and Pastor, whereby he plays off on their desire to be accepting of someone from a different cultural background. Imagine the tables reversed, and a Palestinian were to make such a movie, touring the USA, disguised as a Jew, playing such practical jokes on people. Perhaps he would have dinner with them, and execute some stereotype, like walking back to the table, and taking the tip. Or having a running of the Muslim film-shot, where a Muslim couple with bombs strapped to their robes would do similar to his filmshot of the running of the Jews. Can you imagine how that would look for Jews? We would all be screaming foul, because it would clearly be anti-Semitic. It would be a caricature of us that plays to derogatory stereotypes that are now circulating, like Israeli oppression of Palestinians. And it is a double-standard, impossible to believe, and shameful too, that we are not screaming foul that a Jew is doing this misdeed. And he is defrauding us yet again, letting the world believe that we believe there is one standard for the Jew, and yet another for the Gentile. Shame on you Sasha. You disgrace us.