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Dark Eyed Palestinian Temptress

Submitted by Dabitch on Tue, 02/12/2002 - 22:03.
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In the personal ads in the village voice this week a "dark Eyed Palestinian Temptress" says she's ready to to settle down "and go home" with a Jewish man who will "get me there." She's not alone, 16 other personal ads were placed with similar messages.

You can if you wish do an interesting search in the village voice classifieds, women seeking men, keyword "jewish" to see ads like this one:

YOU claimed our FALAFEL
olives, oranges, music, houses as yours. ME: the REAL SEMITE fun, sexy, Palestinian gal. I need you to get me home. WANTED: loving Jewish M.

One ad joked: "You Stole The Land, May As Well Take the Women!"

The sudden appearance of these ads - about one fifth of this weeks personals - made the paper investigate.

Several of the advertisers make clear they want to live in Israel - and that is raising some concern in Jewish groups.

"There seems to be something orchestrated here, but orchestrated for what purpose?" said Ken Jacobson, associate director of the Anti-Defamation League.

There were also two palestian men seeking jewish women personals in this weeks voice.

It's not the first time classifieds/personals have been used to raise issues, and it's not the first time it has happened to the Village voice. Last July, a voice issue has several palestinian women-seeking-men ads but they stopped as mysteriously as they began.

Spokeswoman Jessica Bellucci said the newspaper's ad department began looking into the ads a few days ago and was trying to contact all the suspect advertisers. It is "unclear if the ads were part of a campaign".


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Submitted by Robblink on Wed, 02/13/2002 - 22:35.

Sounds like bad news. A couple of years ago an Israeli teen met a Palestinian girl in a chat room. She set up a rendezvous with him, but it turned out to be an ambush. He was shot dead by the girl's friends. However horrific that situation was, it could have been worse. The Palestinian girl could have been a dirty old man.

Submitted by Dabitch on Fri, 02/15/2002 - 16:18.

I don't tthink it's the first time the personals have been used in some clever political action sense (i doubt there is any answer on these personals) - but how did they get past the adproofer and into print? Some of them are rather..Uh..Blunt/obvious.. I guess when you can write "must enjoy whipping and scat" in one you can write "the real semite" in the other.

Wonder what reaction these ads are getting from the real target market - jewish men looking for women/vice verca. Do they just skip that ad and head for the next one.. Do they discuss it with anyone (and reveal that they are reading personals?) Do they finally date that girl their mum so likes?