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Is it satirical or anti-Semitic? An online game on the site of Dutch public broadcaster VPRO has come under discussion. It’s based on the popular board game Settlers of Catan – only in this version the players have to establish colonies on the West Bank.
The VPRO
has now taken the game offline because its “satirical aim is now overshadowed”.
The game
Players are
required to assume the role of a Jewish settler. The aim of the game is to
build as many settlements as possible on Palestinian territory.
'Anne Frank
House cards' and 'Wailing Wall cards' can be used to acquire extra points.
Players are also required to apply the stereotype 'traditional Jewish trading
mentality' and trade in diamonds.
The game is
not satirical but anti-Semitic, say both the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los
Angeles, a watchdog for anti-Semitism, and the Dutch-based pro-Israeli Centre
for Information and Documentation on Israel (CIDI).
Hate speech
The Simon
Wiesenthal Center has written a letter about the matter to European Commissioner
for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship Viviane Reding, hoping she
could put pressure on the Netherlands to make sure the game is taken offline.
According
to Shimon Samuels from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the game is anti-Semitic
and racist. As the VPRO is a public broadcaster, he claims the Dutch state is
guilty of hate speech using public money.
It’s not as
simple as that, says Dutch Minister of Culture Marja van Bijsterveldt, who
doesn’t intend to interfere in the case. The VPRO is a public broadcaster but
that doesn't mean the government has anything to do with the content.
Anti-Semitism
Chair of
the CIDI Joël Serphos doesn’t think the game is merely satirical. In the Dutch
press he said that “use is made of traditional anti-Semitic views”. According
to him, they might just as well have been put on the extreme right website
Stormfront.
The VPRO
says that the game – which is the focus of discussion after being online for
longer than a year – was intended as an ironic commentary on the Middle East
conflict. The makers hadn’t really intended it as a game. “It should be
considered a visual column. It’s oozing satire.”
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