The B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC), Australia’s leading organisation fighting anti-Semitism and hatred in all its forms, has welcomed the removal by You Tube of scenes from “Angry Goy”, an anti-Semitic and White-Supremacist computer game that was freely available for download. In the game, a Neo-Nazi character commits a massacre after learning that “Six million” immigrants are coming to Europe, described as “Brown murderers and rapists” and decides that the only solution is “The Final Solution.” The Neo Nazi protagonist murders black refugees and a Jewish bank manager, attacks a refugee crisis centre, and pushes a Jewish professor into an oven. At one point, as a reward for scoring high points, an image of Anders Breivik, who murdered 77 people in Norway, appears while the game concludes with a speech by Hitler.
Dr Dvir Abramovich, Chairman of the ADC, issued the following statement:
“We welcome You Tube’s decisive action in removing the scenes from this abhorrent anti-Semitic and racist game. No internet company should allow its platform to be manipulated so as to serve as a vehicle to spread bigotry, violence and hate. As we have previously stated, all web giants need to be enormously vigilant in ensuring that abhorrent materials that incite blatant prejudice and intolerance are speedily pulled from their sites. It is a concern that such games are proliferating on the internet, created and marketed by dangerous, Neo-Nazi groups. It is of greater concern that such games have moved from appearing exclusively on extremist websites, to mainstream avenues, which allow these hate-mongers to promote their sick and perverse messages and themes to a mass audience.”
The B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission, founded in 1979, is Australia’s leading civil rights organization fighting racism through educational programs that combat bigotry, prejudice and all forms of hatred.
For further information please contact Dr Dvir Abramovich on (03) 9272 5677.