“Jewish people murder, rape, and eat children,” claims aspiring South African comedian Thomas Torr in a recent YouTube video.
The Cape South African Jewish Board of Deputies has referred Torr to the Equality Court: the case will be heard on 23 April.
Torr has been banned from TikTok for his antisemitic views.
He refers to Jews as a Bronze Age cult “that was started by f*cking Moses? They’re savages, they’re barbarians, they’re subhuman, they need to have their human rights stripped,” he says. “It’s a savage, barbaric cult that centres around raping and eating children. There are people [Jews] on your block who get a delivery of Palestinian child meat every week.”
He says a “really fun way to get yourself arrested in a public space” is to say, “Kill the Jews.” He thinks Jews endanger themselves by existing, and it’s no fault of the person who harms them. “They’re so brainwashed, they will literally put their children in danger of being killed. If a child thinks that he’s part of the chosen people, maybe that child would be better off in the after-life.”
Advocate Mark Oppenheimer says Torr’s “vicious antisemitic rhetoric unquestionably constitutes hate speech. Such statements actively incite harm and propagate dangerous hatred against the Jewish community.”
For Torr, Jews provoke antisemitism just by existing, and that antisemitism will only die when Judaism is completely exterminated.
Torr’s comedy career has been somewhat unsuccessful. In one video he says he is “banned from doing comedy” in South Africa.
In a voice message to the SA Jewish Report, he says “I’m a musician and a comedian and you psychopaths ruined my life. You child rapists who think that you’re chosen by G-d.”
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