In 1989, Jackie Mason had a short-lived sit-com. In an early episode, Mason visits his Catholic girlfriend's family. There's a deer head mounted on the wall.
"You do any hunting, Jackie?" one of the men asks.
"Jews don't hunt. They shop," Mason says.
A rabbi TV critic for a Jewish newspaper denounced this as anti-Semitic. He said he was sure that hunting was as common among Jews as it was with any other demographically comparable ethnic group.
Which probably isn't true since deer aren't kosher, at least not if you shoot them.
Jackie Mason's anti-Semitic joke was halachic.
Mason wanted to expel all Palestinians from Palestine and murder any that remained. He was an admirer of Meir Kahane and the Jewish Defense League which is listed by the FBI as a terrorist group. Mason was known for using cute Yiddish racial slurs against Black politicians.
He died the other day at 93.
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