Purim humor

There is a scholarship on what Halakha says on whether harm, insult (lashon hara), or injury – whether physical (towards property or a person) or verbal – are admissible in the course of Purim pranks or jokes.

Reuters suggested that the rumors appear to be based on a February 24, 2013 spoof article at The Jewish Press website,[8] which at the bottom said: "This has been a Purim prank...".

[9] On February 24, 2021 (a day before Purim that year), The Jerusalem Post tweeted[10] that Benjamin Netanyahu could not get hold of Joe Biden for a month because the latter gave him a wrong number which replied "Hello, this is not the person you were trying to call.

"[11] In March 2019 Esther Voet, a columnist of a respected Dutch Jewish weekly NIW announced that she was moving to Israel, where "getting called a dirty Jew simply means I have to take a bath", complaining about the rise of anti-Semitism in the country.

Hundreds of people from the nearby places phoned the residents of Psagot to ask for a stay during the event, while leftist groups started arranging buses with protesters.