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The game “Jews vs. Nazis,“ a spinoff of a Beerpong game, was brought to the attention of Princeton officials after the students posted pictures of it on social media.

A game students found to be fun at Princeton High School in New Jersey, has been anything but a laughing matter. The game “Jews vs. Nazis,” a spinoff of a Beerpong game, was brought to the attention of Princeton officials after the students posted pictures of it on social media.

Students likened the game of “Beerpong” to “Holocaust Pong” or “Alcoholocaust.” The game that goes by more than one name streamed on social media. The pictures showed them pouring beer into two sets of cups that were made into the image of both the Star of David and a swastika.

According to “Drinking Game Zone,” a website that gives instructions for over 200 alcohol games, states that “Holocaust Pong” entails 60 cups of beer and players must makes moves labeled “Anne Frank” and “Auschwitz.”

Jessica Ponder, a 17 year-old Princeton HS student said that the pictures were of her classmates, on her recent blog post.

Ponder said, “They are athletes and student leaders. They’re prominent individuals that everybody knows, captains of sports teams.”

Princeton Superintendent Steve Cochrane was extremely disheartened that students took part in a drinking game with “clearly anti-Semitic” overtones.

“An incident such as this one, forces us to take a hard look at our efforts in educating our children in the values that may be most important to their success in life,” Cochrane said.

Crochane and other officials are doing their best to deal with the recent incident by informing both students and their families of the standard’s that students must uphold and the absolute, disgust of partaking in such games.

In regards to it being a joke, Ponder wrote on her blog, “Well, perhaps it is a joke but then I guess the punchline would be: genocide. Pardon me if I don’t find that to be hilarious. The real joke here is that these kids weren’t only insensitive enough to play the game, but also silly enough to post it on Snapchat and leave it there long enough for me, and several others, to take a screenshot.”

Ponder posted the pictures on her blog, and shortly after it was shared more than 1,000 times on Facebook.

“I think an incident like this underscores and highlights a number of different issues,” Joshua Cohen, a regional director for the Anti-Defamation League. “One, the trivialization of Nazis, Hitler and anti-Semitism by teenagers. I think it underscores the critical need for holocaust education,” he said.

Kevin Zuckerbrod

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