Anti-Semitic Video Mocking Nazi Salute Prom Photo Found In Same Wisconsin City
Baraboo High School Class of 2019 junior prom photo Image by twitter
(JTA) — An anti-Semitic video was posted on social media and anti-Semitic fliers posted both, related to the Wisconsin high school students who made what appears to be a Nazi salute in a junior prom photo have appeared around the Baraboo community.
A seven-minute video was posted on Sunday to the paid social networking website minds.com by a user called BarabooAryans, which used anti-Semitic references and satirized the controversial photo, the Baraboo New Republic reported Wednesday. The video was removed on Wednesday afternoon, according to the report.
On Monday, fliers featuring anti-Semitic messages and warnings about attending forums against anti-Semitism and for tolerance were posted around a local middle school.
Part of the planned forums for Dec. 18 include high school assemblies for students and staff featuring guest speakers calling for tolerance.
Baraboo Police Chief Mark Schauf said his staff, as well as state and federal authorities, are working to discover the source of the video and the fliers.
Both anti-Semitic platforms singled out Baraboo’s Neat-O’s Bake Shoppe, which made a Facebook post condemning the prom photo.
The video and fliers make the bakery look like sponsors of Nazi images and anti-Semitism.
Business has dropped by half since the video and fliers came out, owner Tony Nieto told WKOW 27 News.
The photo was taken in the spring and involves about 50 students. It was posted originally in a private online album tagged #BarabooProud. It was taken by the parent of a student in the class, Peter Gust, who was not hired as a photographer by the school district that night. The photo also was not taken on school property.
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