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The first video is a Holocaust denial video. It shows a man dressed up as a Rabbi refers to “six million headlights”. He is rubbing his hands in glee and holding a bag of money, a visual instantiation of the most common antisemitic meme on the internet. Background on this meme, which originated from white supremacist circles and has been around for over 20 years, was covered in an early OHPI report. Then there is a response from the shop staff, who is wearing a black shirt with the letters HH – a short form for “Heil Hitler”. He replies, “you only have enough for 271,000 of them”. This is a reference to Holocaust denial claim that is often seen online and relates to a misrepresentation of a genuine document from WWII, more background on this is here. The document is used to claim only 271,000 Jews died in the Holocaust. As the Arolsen Archives notes, It “lists the numbers of death certificates issued upon application for prisoners from concentration camps, such as Dachau, Buchenwald, and Bergen-Belsen. The figures do not include the millions of Jews murdered in extermination camps like Auschwitz-Birkenau or those who died in mass shootings.” A bit of background, the Arolsen Archives is the world’s most comprehensive archive on victims and survivors of Nazi persecution, it was formerly (in the immediate aftermath of WWII) known as the International Tracing Service.
The second video has the same two actors dressed in the same antisemitic way. The “Jew” says “I heard you sell body parts here”, the shop staff replied “yeah we do, we sell body parts for cars, not for kids you sick f*ck”. In addition to the elements noted above, impersonating a Rabbi looking like the antisemitic meme of the Jews (the Happy Merchant), this one is a reference to blood libel – the false claim in medieval Europe that Jews stole children and killed them to use their blood in rituals. It seems specifically to reference the Swedish blood libel (more here and here and discussed in my expert evidence in the Wertheim v Haddad case here), which is a modern variant based on a false claim of organ harvesting and trading in body parts.
If the activity was not authorised by management, those involved in this activity should be sacked as well as being charged by police under Section 474.17 of the Commonwealth Criminal Code. If the business was involved, i.e. if there was expressed, tacit, or impliedly authorisation or permission, the company itself should be charged with that offence. This is not just a matter of problematic social media content, it is a crime and should be treated as such. Social media platforms should remove all copies of the video, while preserving information that may be needed by police and prosecutors.


