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Article: Lawyer calls Ynet's ethnic jokes no laughing matter
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- March 18, 2004
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HILARY LEILA KRIEGER
Jerusalem Post
03-18-2004
Headline: Lawyer calls Ynet's ethnic jokes no laughing matter
Byline: HILARY LEILA KRIEGER
Edition; Daily
Section: News
Page: 04
Thursday, March 18, 2004 -- "What's the most disgusting thing a camel has on its back? An Arab."
That's Ynet's idea of a joke. The Internet site, the on-line version of Yediot Aharonot, Israel's largest- circulation newspaper, includes it and similar one-liners in its section of "Puzzles and Fun."
It's also attorney Boaz Arad's idea of racial incitement.
"They aren't different from those remembered by my father from his childhood in Germany in the 1930s," Boaz said. "Seventy years have passed and the jokes of 'Hitler ...