RSSIsraeli Racism
Gene Lalor | October 26, 2009
In a scathing attack on certain religious factions in Israel, an article on the authoritative Jewish website, HARRETZ.com denounces the existence in the country of self-righteous zealots imvolved in a “racist campaign [which] is being led by the Shas party, headed by Interior Minister Eli Yishai.”
Shulamit Aloni also targets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for having “fallen in love” with ultra-orthodox elements in Israel and Israel’s “parasites,” 50,000 yeshiva students who are exempted from working and serving in the military.
The notoriously-belligerent Netanyahu 
allegedly ”despises the principles embodied in the founding document of the state . . . that ensures the country will be developed ‘for the benefit of all its residents,’ that there will be ‘complete equality of rights for all citizens regardless of origin, race, religion or gender,’ as well as ‘freedom of religion and conscience.’ “
The chief object of Aloni’s disaffection is the ultra-Orthodox hypocrisy in accepting the assimilation of Russian emigres while insisting ”on racial purity,” and expulsion ”from the ‘Jewish democratic’ state [all other] children who were born here and have assimilated into Israeli society.”
The obvious and shocking irony in such actions is that those Jews are revivifying the dark days of the Inquisition when Spanish Jews were expelled from Spain and adopting Hitler’s concept of a pure “Master Race.”
They are attempting to do unto lawfully-assimilated Israeli citizens what was done to them hundreds of years ago by practicing their own brand of “formal racism” and discrimination and to practice what could be called Nazi-light.
Aloni points out the ultra-Orthodox effort is a blatant violation of Jewish tradition and law: “It is stated in Tractate Kiddushin that those who have become assimilated are assimilated, and one does not make inquiries about them.”
Immigrants who did not have a Jewish mother–Russians are exempted from that requisite–or who resist conversion are being treated as pariahs “in an effort to keep the nation clean” (emphasis added): http://bit.ly/8mDvB.
Shakespeare’s Shylock would be ashamed that his own people, representing the world’s most discriminated-against religion and people, could forget the lessons of the Inquisition and the Holocaust even as they continually issue reminders of that latter atrocity.
If Holocaust-deniers such as Ahmadinejad are considered the scum of the Earth, what must Nazi replicators be?
Perhaps the worst implication in this sad story is that this Israeli discrimination undercuts any Jewish allegations that they are subjected to racist bigotry anywhere in the Gentile world.
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