This is the sort of article where I always ask: did they look on Snopes?
I’m waiting for Snopes to completely bebunk the “hands up don’t shoot” narrative.
“”are afraid of offending Jewish or””
Odd that we’ve managed to get along just fine for a very long time without the Jewish population minding the word(s).
Snopes doesn't have any mention of it one way or the other (that I could find).
Nor does the Oxford University Press site have any mention of it (that I could find).