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Watch: Wedding Footage Captures Cameraman’s Hateful, Anti-Semitic Rant
New York Daily News ^ | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2013 | CAROL KURUVILLA

Posted on 10/11/2013 6:13:09 PM PDT by nickcarraway

When London videographer Anthony Aurelius sent newlyweds Stan and Claudia Gocman unedited footage from their wedding, he didn’t realize that the video was littered with his anti-Semitic remarks. The Jewish couple haven’t accepted his sniveling, handwritten apology.

A wedding videographer revealed just how vile he could be when a Jewish couple caught him making anti-Semitic remarks on their wedding video.

The racist camerman, Anthony Aurelius, didn’t realize he’d kept the tape rolling while chatting with his assistant during a central London wedding shoot last year. “Mental, Israeli dancing, isn’t it? There’s a real feeling of like, they’re better than everybody else. Jewish,” Aurelius said in the video.

“That’s why Holocaust,” his assistant said.

“I don’t think I blame Hitler,” Aurelius replied cooly, while filming the bride.

Stan and Claudia Gocman, of Edgware, London, were shocked to find the muttered remarks in an unedited version of their wedding video.

“It’s completely anti-Semitic and ignorant. At first, I was really upset — but then I was furious,” Claudia, 27, told The Mirror.

The couple said they were 'very upset and very angry' after hearing Aurelius’ recorded remarks.

But that wasn’t the only problem the couple had with the videographer.

At first, Aurelius sent them the video from another couple’s wedding. It took nine months for the videographer to deliver his finished product. But that was so terribly done — missing important moments and capturing backs instead of faces — that the newlyweds agreed to pay extra for the raw, unedited film.

That’s where they heard Aurelius’ racist rants. He bashed the happy couple and their guests during the reception, making fun of what he called “Israeli dancing.”

At the same time, he called Jewish people the “meanest people in the world.”

“Not a lot of niceness about them is there? Very little warmth,” he said.

He also exposed his bigoted stance toward Jewish women. Aurelius reportedly made fun of the wedding guests while they danced at the reception. 'Mental, Israeli dancing, isn’t it?' he said.

Aurelius reportedly made fun of the wedding guests while they danced at the reception. 'Mental, Israeli dancing, isn’t it?' he said.

“Some of the Jewish women are very beautiful to look at ... But I can tell you, they’d be right f-----g cows. Very f-----g snooty, they’d be a pain in the arse,” he said in the video. "Not a very attractive bride at all.”

“They think they’re better than everybody else because they’re from Israel,” Aurelius continued.

The couple thinks he might have held a vendetta against them for choosing his “basic package” instead of the more expensive options. They considered filing charges, but decided against it after finding out that Aurelius’ video business had shut down.

Aurelius later sent the couple a handwritten apology. “I see now my character is weak and need to look at myself,” the camerman wrote. “I am deeply sorry I offended you.”

He enclosed a check with a full refund.

But the damage was already done. The Gocmans said their memories of the wedding were scarred by Aurelius’ hateful words.

“He’s a disgusting little man. I can’t even stand to watch the video, it makes me so angry,” Claudia said.


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Local News; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; england

1 posted on 10/11/2013 6:13:09 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Buddy of BHO?


2 posted on 10/11/2013 7:16:12 PM PDT by opres
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To: nickcarraway

The poor couple. They’ll always have those rants in the back of their minds whenever they watch the footage . . .

Then again, my wife threatens me every anniversary with THE VIDEO!! Maybe it’s a secret blessing in a way; one less weapon in the bonfire of the vanities.


3 posted on 10/11/2013 7:37:14 PM PDT by BraveMan
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To: nickcarraway

Neighborhood Bully by Bob Dylan

Well, the neighborhood bully, he’s just one man
His enemies say he’s on their land
They got him outnumbered about a million to one
He got no place to escape to, no place to run
He’s the neighborhood bully

The neighborhood bully just lives to survive
He’s criticized and condemned for being alive
He’s not supposed to fight back, he’s supposed to have thick skin
He’s supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in
He’s the neighborhood bully

The neighborhood bully been driven out of every land
He’s wandered the earth an exiled man
Seen his family scattered, his people hounded and torn
He’s always on trial for just being born
He’s the neighborhood bully

Well, he knocked out a lynch mob, he was criticized
Old women condemned him, said he should apologize.
Then he destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad
The bombs were meant for him. He was supposed to feel bad
He’s the neighborhood bully

Well, the chances are against it and the odds are slim
That he’ll live by the rules that the world makes for him
’Cause there’s a noose at his neck and a gun at his back
And a license to kill him is given out to every maniac
He’s the neighborhood bully

He got no allies to really speak of
What he gets he must pay for, he don’t get it out of love
He buys obsolete weapons and he won’t be denied
But no one sends flesh and blood to fight by his side
He’s the neighborhood bully

Well, he’s surrounded by pacifists who all want peace
They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease
Now, they wouldn’t hurt a fly. To hurt one they would weep
They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep
He’s the neighborhood bully

Every empire that’s enslaved him is gone
Egypt and Rome, even the great Babylon
He’s made a garden of paradise in the desert sand
In bed with nobody, under no one’s command
He’s the neighborhood bully

Now his holiest books have been trampled upon
No contract he signed was worth what it was written on
He took the crumbs of the world and he turned it into wealth
Took sickness and disease and he turned it into health
He’s the neighborhood bully

What’s anybody indebted to him for?
Nothin’, they say. He just likes to cause war
Pride and prejudice and superstition indeed
They wait for this bully like a dog waits to feed
He’s the neighborhood bully

What has he done to wear so many scars?
Does he change the course of rivers? Does he pollute the moon and stars?
Neighborhood bully, standing on the hill
Running out the clock, time standing still
Neighborhood bully

Copyright © 1983 by Special Rider Music

Read more: http://www.bobdylan.com/us/songs/neighborhood-bully#ixzz2hTIsiAXU


4 posted on 10/11/2013 7:41:31 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: nickcarraway

What a pig.


5 posted on 10/11/2013 8:00:07 PM PDT by ottbmare (the OTTB mare, now a proud Marine Mom)
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To: nickcarraway; Yehuda
Aurelius later sent the couple a handwritten apology. “I see now my character is weak and need to look at myself,” the camerman wrote. “I am deeply sorry I offended you.”

He enclosed a check with a full refund.

Handwritten note along with a refund. It does have some marks of a real apology. Even if he wrote his note with a mocking intent, I get a peculiar sense that this guy is a future convert.

6 posted on 10/11/2013 8:02:23 PM PDT by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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To: BraveMan
Back when "professional" videotaping was becoming commonly vogue, one article has a story of a couple getting an unexpected and unintentional surprise- the videographer had reused a tape with him pleasuring himself or the like.

Funny, my mother recently came across some 8 or Super8 reels of her wedding and had them digitized. She didn't say anything about any untoward acts on the discs. Then again, it was the late 1950s.

7 posted on 10/11/2013 8:43:34 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: nickcarraway

“Anthony Aurelius.” With a name like that, it’s no surprise.


8 posted on 10/11/2013 9:09:30 PM PDT by familyop
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To: opres

Hey liberal Jews love 0bama!~!~! Different story with Israelis however.....they hate the POS


9 posted on 10/12/2013 6:14:31 AM PDT by rrrod (at home in Medellin Colombia)
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