‘I burn like a Jew’ is Mexico’s 6th trendiest Twitter phrase
“I burn like a Jew” was the sixth most popular hashtag
phrase among Mexican Twitter users a week after another anti-Semitic phrase
trended in that country.
The phrase, #MeQuemoComoJudío, made it to number six
among Mexican users on Jan. 23,
according to Twed.it, a website which measures the popularity of hashtags – a
word, name or phrase preceded by the # symbol which makes Twitter conversations
searchable.
Some Tweets contained jokes about gas chambers. One Tweet
by a user identified as Miguel Angel had attached to it a picture of dead Jews
at a Nazi concentration camp juxtaposed with the Milton Bradley Company’s
Twister game, in which participants’ limbs are often entangled on a large
board.
“This one is used more like a slang expression, as in ‘I
make a fool of Myself = I burn like a Jew,’ according to the Coordination Forum
for Countering Antisemitism, an international watchdog.
On Jan. 18, the Forum reported that #EsdeJudios, which
translates to 'it's Jewish to', or “just like Jews,” was second among trending
topics in Mexico. There were mocking references in those tweets people to soap,
ashes and gas.
A French court on Jan. 24 cited hate speech laws ordering
Twitter to share the details of users who made anti-Semitic statements under
the hashtag #unbonjuif, or 'a good Jew'. The social network has yet to decide
whether it will comply with the request.
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