Students chant 'you killed Jesus' at game against school with many Jewish students

[Eugene]

Source: New York Daily News

Students chant 'you killed Jesus' at game against school with many Jewish students

BY CHRISTOPHER BRENNAN NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Sunday, March 13, 2016, 5:31 AM

A Catholic school in Massachusetts has apologized after some of its pupils chanted “you killed Jesus” at a game against a school with many Jewish students.

The fan section of Catholic Memorial High School in West Roxbury unleashed the anti-Semitic cheer when its basketball team visited Newton North High School on Friday night.

Memorial’s President Peter Folan called the chanting “unacceptable” and said that the offending students had to personally apologize to Newton’s interim principal after the game.

Newton Superintendent David Fleishman told Wicked Local that the incident was “upsetting and troubling and highly insensitive” for him and his students.

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[whathehell]

1. Unbelievable, embarrassing...In 12 years of Catholic school, I never heard ONE anti- Semitic word

from any nun or lay teacher in my classes, and that was back in the Fifties and Sixties.

This is so backward, and foreign to my experience, at first glance, I thought it was coming from red state evangelicals.

[marew]

2. I also attended Catholic school during the same time.

Never heard anything like this.

Where did they get the idea this is acceptable?

[whathehell]

9. Right...It's shocking, really

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and I have NO idea how any could find this "acceptable".

For one thing, in my era on Philadelphia, Catholics and Jews frequently grew up in the same neighborhoods or if not, in areas near by. They mixed a lot in business and politics. All the Catholic school kids in the city got theor uniforms from a place called Eisrnberg' & O'Hara's.

[malthaussen]

4. When I went to public school...

... we did use to throw rocks at the Catholic kids in their cute little uniforms on the way to school, but I think that was more a reaction of poor kids against the perceived wealth and snobbery of those who could afford private school. The fact that many Catholics of modest means make sacrifices to send their kids to parochial school would have been lost on us.

-- Mal

[whathehell]

10. May I ask when you went to school?

Because in my hometown of Philly back in the day, tuition for Catholic school was very low.

[malthaussen]

11. Pittsburgh 'burbs

I have no personal knowledge of what tuition for Catholic schools is (or was in the 1960s, which is the period in question), but the kids in my neighborhood (all Protestant) thought the Catholic school kids were rich and stuck up. And we prided ourselves on being tough guys (ah, youth).

-- Mal

[Joe Chi Minh]

6. I'm very pleased to hear that, (having ony formally returned

to the fold in 62, since leaving the church at the age of five or six). Also, pleased, since some of your experience evidently predated the beginning of Vatican II.

[whathehell]

8. Absolutely... There was nothing like that. n/t

[malthaussen]

3. Never did understand that meme...

... if I remember my Gospels right, it was the Romans who killed JC, the Jews had no jurisdiction (and no capital punishment). Ironic, because the concept of "plausible deniability" seems to be used a lot in other cases: "What I do through another's hands, I do myself" is a principle pretty well disregarded.

-- Mal

[Joe Chi Minh]

5. It is a very stupid taunt, as the Jews were chosen to be the deicides, not

because they were the worst of mankind, but because they were the best of mankind. They had, after all, been prepared for 2000 years plus to be the bearers of Christ in his humanity.

It doesn't take a brain surgeon to work that one out. We are told in the Gospel that Jewish law forbade crucifixion, whereas the Gentiles, we are told, were a byword among the Jews for their cruelty. It is said that the soldiers who crucified him would have been Thracian troops, known more generally as particularly cruel and specially chosen on that account.

As for his killers, the evil religious leaders of that day in Israel.... well, the Devil's own, Jew or Gentile, are cut from the same cloth ; the Jewish leaders of that day having plenty of rivals in wickedness in the history of the Roman Catholic church, right up to modern times - though I am nevertheless proud to be a member of it, warts and all, today.

On the other hand, Gentiles didn't provide Jesus or his Holy Family nor number too prominently among the Apostles.

[freebrew]

7. Jesus was ... wait for it...

a JEW!!!

Dumbasses!

"Teach your children well..."