Are eighth graders in Chicago using a video game to bully a Jewish classmate? That’s what one parent is alleging.
Chicago Public School officials are investigating whether eighth grade students at Ogden International School of Chicago used the online game “Clash of Clans”—a strategy game in which members of a particular ‘clan’ attack players from other clans and loot their villages—to target a Jewish student, the Chicago Sun Times reports. According to Lisa Wolfe Clemente, the mother of a 14-year-old student at Ogden, her son’s classmates created a team called “Jew Incinerator,” of which they wrote: “We are a friendly group of racists with one goal- put all Jews into an army camp until disposed of.” Another of the team’s online messages read: “Heil! Throw Jews into ovens for a cause.”
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