Letter urges Israeli girls to avoid dating Arabs

[The Fighting_Crusnik]

Found this article today on CNN:
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/12/29/israel.letter.arabs/index.html

So lets see now... First there were some saying that non-Jewish people should have their citizenship taken away, then Rabbis began saying that it was a "sin" to rent land to Arabs and Palestinians and now the wives of the Rabbis are now spewing this crap... I find it hard to believe that there are still people who believe that Israel is incapable of committing evil actions...

[Property Is Robbery]

I find it hard to believe that there are still people who believe that Israel is incapable of committing evil actions...
If only. But we live in a sad, delusional world.

[freepalestine]

Prominent Rabbis' Wives Tell Fellow Jewish Women Not To Date Arabs

Wednesday December 29, 2010 03:50 by Saed Bannoura - 1 of International Middle East Media Center Editorial Group [/URL]


In a letter published Tuesday in the Israeli press, around two dozen wives of prominent Israeli rabbis followed a recent edict by their husbands for Jews to refuse to rent or sell property to Arabs with an edict of their own: that Jewish women refuse to date or associate with Arab men.http://www.imemc.org/attachments/dec2010/jewishdemocracy.jpg


The letter includes gross generalizations about Arabs, specifically referencing Palestinians with Israeli citizenship: “There are quite a few Arab workers who use Hebrew names. Yusuf becomes Yossi, Samir becomes Sami and Abed becomes Ami. They seek your proximity, try to appeal to you and give you all the attention you could ask for, they actually know how to act polite, making you believe they really care – but that behavior is only temporary.”

It continues, "As soon as they have in you in their grasp, in their village, under their complete control – everything becomes different. Your life will never be the same, and the attention you sought will be replaced with curses, physical abuse and humiliation."

The women give no evidence whatsoever for their claims, and Palestinians immediately condemned the letter for its use of “scare tactics, generalizations and outright racist statements”.

The letter also states, “Your grandmothers never dreamed that one of their descendents would, by one act, remove future generations from the Jewish people. For you, for future generations, and so that you will never have to endure the terrible suffering, we appeal to you, begging, pleading, praying: Don't date them, don't work where they work and don't perform National Service with them."

This follows on the heels of a religious edict issued by the womens' husbands, who are all prominent rabbis in Israel, in which they claim that the Jewish holy book, the Torah, forbids the sale or rental of property to non-Jews (specifically referencing Palestinians).

The rabbis and their wives are mainly part of a group called 'Lehava', which encourages segregation and discrimination against non-Jews in Israel. The group can be traced back to the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, who headed an organization called 'Kach', which was classified by Israel as 'terrorist' for its attacks against civilians. One if the members of that group was Baruch Goldstein, a doctor from Brooklyn, New York, who came to Israel in 1994 to gun down 29 Palestinians praying in a mosque in Hebron.

Over the last several years, anti-Arab sentiments have been on the rise in Israel. A recent study by the Association for Arab Civil Rights in Israel showed that racism against Arabs has doubled in the past several years, and incidents of violence against Palestinians inside Israel are also on the rise. [URL]http://www.imemc.org/article/60292 (http://www.revleft.com/vb/../report_posts?subject=Report post: Story 60292 with title: Prominent Rabbis' Wives Tell Fellow Jewish Women Not To Date Arabs&message=Report post: Story 60292 with title: Prominent Rabbis' Wives Tell Fellow Jewish Women Not To Date Arabs%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.imemc.org%2Findex.php%3Fo bj_id%3D53%26story_id%3D60292%26%0A%0AEnter+your+r eason+here+-+please+do+not+remove+the+above+link+as+it+will+al low+an+editor+to+easily+remove+the+offending+conte nt)

[Iraultzaile Ezkerreko]

And to think, I get called anti-semitic for referring to Israel as an apartheid state. :rolleyes:

Also, this very much reminds me of social efforts in the aftermath of the passage of civil rights laws in the US and several landmark civil rights cases.

[gorillafuck]

It seems like one of the most frequent racist propaganda ideas is hostility towards relationships between what in this scenario would be Arab men and Israeli women. In the US it was/to a smaller extent still is Latino and Black men with white women.

[freepalestine]

yeh but its nothing really new.
it's just now that due to the power of the religious right in isreal,that it's at the level it is.
also the photo is ^^is ironic

similar thread
http://www.revleft.com/vb/racist-slogans-displayed-t146923/index.html?t=146923

[scourge007]

I stopped believing that Israel was pretty good after I heard about their stance concerning Ethiopian Jews. Apparently the only Jews they want in Israel are white.

[Soldier of life]

I stopped believing that Israel was pretty good after I heard about their stance concerning Ethiopian Jews. Apparently the only Jews they want in Israel are white.

Any links on that?

[scourge007]

Any links on that?
Here's one article http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3480010,00.html

[chegitz guevara]

This is light compared to the "respect squads" or whatever they call themselves, who drive around and physically pull Jewish girls away from Arab boys (but not Jewish boys from Arab girls).