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re: TOKYO Olympics 2020-2021 -Schedule Dates & RESULTS
TOKYO 2020 Olympics Opening Ceremony Boss Sacked Day Before Show 'Over Holocaust Jokes'
It comes after it emerged that Kentaro Kobayashi made light of the mass murder of six million Jews by the Nazis in a script for a 1998 comedy act, including saying, “Let’s play Holocaust”
BBC News, 22 JUL 2021
The opening ceremony, directed by Kentaro Kobayashi (pictured) is due to take place on Friday
The show director for the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony Kentaro Kobayashi has been fired on the eve of the event over a decades-old skit referencing the Holocaust.
Kobayashi’s firing comes as the latest blow for organisers of the pandemic-delayed Games.
Former PM and a staunch supporter of games Shinzo Abe won’t be allowed to attend the games.
Meanwhile, former PM and ex-Tokyo 2020 President Yoshiro Mori had resigned after making distasteful remarks at women.
SWC Associate Dean and Global Social Action Director, Rabbi Abraham Cooper said: "Any person, no matter how creative, does not have the right to mock the victims of the Nazi genocide.
"The Nazi regime also gassed Germans with disabilities. Any association of this person to the Tokyo Olympics would insult the memory of six million Jews and make a cruel mockery of the Paralympics."
The Games, set to begin tomorrow, have already been delayed by a year due to the pandemic, and will take place without spectators.
Watch the full video for more details.
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