From the Anti-Defamation League: “While we have come to expect inappropriate ‘Jews control Hollywood’ jokes…the Oscars was offensive and not remotely funny,”
By Arutz Sheva staff
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released a statement Monday criticizing the “offensive and not remotely funny” sketch at the Academy Awards featuring Seth MacFarlane’s character “Ted.”
In the sketch, the animated bear tells actor Mark Wahlberg that if “you want to work in this town” you have to be Jewish.
It was “sad and disheartening” that the awards show sought to use age-old, anti-Jewish stereotypes for laughs, the ADL said in a statement.
“While we have come to expect inappropriate ‘Jews control Hollywood’ jokes from Seth MacFarlane, what he did at the Oscars was offensive and not remotely funny,” said ADL National Director Abraham H. Continue Reading »
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