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Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Lithuanian game show taken off the air over Nazi salute and ‘Jew’ clue
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA Lithuanian game show in which a contestant performed a Nazi salute and shouted “Jew” to describe a Jewish composer has been taken off the air.
Actress Asta Baukute, a former lawmaker, made the gesture on the “Guess the Melody” episode that aired Friday, Delfi reported. In the charades-style game, contestants act out songs and other music trivia without explicitly naming them.
Standing up in a leather coat and dancing excitedly, Baukute put both the index and middle finger of her left hand to her upper lip — ostensibly to indicate Hitler’s mustache — and raised her right hand in a Nazi salute high in the air. She yelled “Jew” three times in Lithuanian.
She was signaling that she recognized the melody being played belonged to Lithuanian composer Simonas Donskovas, who is Jewish.
— JTA
The Times of Israel Community.