Just a little ditty: “La-La, Mohammed’s dead”

Ami Kaufman By Ami Kaufman June 19, 2011 | Edit
My colleague Noam Sheizaf posted a video of this Jerusalem Day march a few weeks ago. I recently came across a longer version, with better subtitling.

It’s really worth a watch. I’ve always knew that we Jews were good at music. But man, I was totally blown away when I heard the cover these young right wingers, the cream of our crop, did to Pat Boone’s “Speedy Gonzales”.

“La-la-la-la… Mohamed’s dead, Mohamed’s dead!”

Utter genius.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGrOZb3WpBU[/youtube]
If you move up to about minute 4:30 in the clip, you can see the lyrics are a tad improved:
“He’s not a prophet,
Just another Arab,
He’s got a mustache full of lice,
he sells goat cheese,
a construction worker,
even when he fasts on Ramadan,
he has an orange ID,
Mohamed’s a homo son of a bitch”
For a second I thought I might have seen some of the security forces tapping their feet to it. I mean, let’s face it – such a catchy tune! Well, they must have been dancing, since they didn’t do anything to stop it. Why should they? It was funded by the city.

Apparently they concur.

Anyway, I wonder what Pat Boone thinks of this version.

(Too bad they didn’t put any effort into the “Death to Arabs!” or “Let your village burn” chants)

Ami Kaufman

Ami Kaufman was chief night editor for Haaretz, for the prominent Israeli financial daily Calcalist, and correspondent on Israeli affairs for 93.6 RAM FM, a joint Palestinian-Israel radio station. His interest in food and cooking led to culinary studies at the "Israeli CIA" (Tadmor, Herzliya) and a brief stint in the restaurant business. Born in Tel Aviv, Ami lives in Bat Yam with his wife and two daughters. In his spare time he blogs at Half & Half.

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