> why didn't he go with something equally likely to be rejected by people who understand English, but less 'Death to all jews'?

He did. See the other people on fiverr he got to do other, stupid things. You did actually watch the video, right?

> likely to be rejected by people who understand English

They understand English perfectly - their email replies discussing the task were about the same level of English as spoken on HN.

> Now middle school kids can chortle together on the playground, "haha, 'death to all jews', that sure was funny".

If a kid thinks that they've misunderstood the joke (and I'd support rating the video something like '15+ mature' or whatever youtube's equivalent is).

I don't like the video, mainly because it seems like Pewdiepie is exploiting poor people, but saying it's making antisemitic jokes is simply Vox being Vox.