by Mobius · Monday, January 31st, 2005
The Whittier Daily News reports,
Seventy-two-year-old Carlos Salas owns one newspaper in Los Angeles, another paper in Baja California and a jewelry store in Pasadena. He has a home in Spyglass Estates near Whittier and another in Tijuana. Also in Tijuana, he founded a Jewish university and is the teacher at a Jewish congregation. Now, the spry, dark-haired native of Zacatecas, Mexico, is taking on a new challenge. In an effort that experts say is either rare or unprecedented, Salas is trying to attract Southern California Latinos with Jewish roots back to the faith.
Full story.
by Mobius · Monday, January 31st, 2005
Hey HT—You wanna know why leftists say the nasty things they do about hareidim? Get a load of this:
The tsunami that ravaged southern Asia last month was God’s punishment for world support for Israel’s plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip, a former chief rabbi has claimed.
“When the Holy One, Blessed be He, is angry with the nations of the world that don’t help Israel — but want to evacuate and disengage, and interfere in our affairs and harm us — then the Holy One, Blessed be He, claps his hands in sadness, and this causes the quake,” former Israeli Chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliahu told the ultra-Orthodox Ma’ayanei Hayeshua magazine.
Full story.
by Mobius · Monday, January 31st, 2005
The Globe & Mail reports,
An event organized by the Arab Student Collective at the University of Toronto, to debate what it calls the Israeli apartheid state, is raising the ire of religious and human-rights organizations throughout the city.
Israeli Apartheid Week, is scheduled to begin today and has been organized by the collective, a recognized club at U of T.
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Groups including B’nai Brith Canada and the Evangelical Association of Canada have publicly condemned the University’s decision to permit the event, saying that it will incite hatred against Jewish students on campus.
I dunno, after having been here for a little while, I think you’d have to be blind to think Israel is anything other than an apartheid state, and after hearing Jeff Halper and Tamer Nafar speak recently, I’m pretty much convinced it is.
Of course, there are cosmetic attempts at integration — bilingual schools and the like. But this society is so segregated — just a brief glance at the Association for Civil Rights in Israel’s website, let alone awareness of Jewish-only & Arab-only communities, schools, hospitals and other civil services, is enough to make a compelling case that it’s state-sanctioned (despite being illegal according to both Israel’s Declaration of Independence and one ruling after another by Israel’s Supreme Court), and in that, it’s enough to make anyone look ridiculous for contending otherwise.
[Update] Many of the laws which established South Africa’s apartheid regime are reflected in laws currently on the books in Israel.
- SA: The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act (1949); Israel: “The Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law bars Israelis married to Palestinians from the Occupied Territories from living together in Israel.”
- SA: The Population Registration Act (1950); Israel: “Israeli authorities require members of the public to carry ID cards on their persons at all times. The Israeli ID card heirarchy is as follows: blue cards, specifying the ‘nationality’ of the bearer to distinguish between Jews and non-Jews, for Israeli citizens (the two main ‘nationalities’ being ‘Jewish’ and ‘Arab’); blue cards for permanent residents indicating, for example, their East Jerusalem residency; orange cards for West Bank (outside of Israeli defined Jerusalem) and Gaza Strip residents, indicating their place of residence and their religion; green cards for persons considered by Israel to be ’security risks.’”
- SA: The Group Areas Act (27 April 1950); Israel: “Public land in Israel is administered by the Israel Land Authority which as a public body has a legal obligation not to discriminate against citizens. Yet the ILA is heavily influenced by the Jewish National Fund, which acts in the interests of Jews only, and uses a number of methods to limit the land available for development for the benefit of the Palestinian Arab community.”
- SA: The Bantu Education Act (1953); Israel: “Government-run Arab schools are a world apart from government-run Jewish schools. In virtually every respect, Palestinian Arab children get an education inferior to that of Jewish children, and their relatively poor performance in school reflects this.”
- SA: The Mines and Work Act (1956); Israel: “The overall number of Palestinians working in Israel has decreased by about 100,000 compared to pre-Intifada levels. One may notice a consistent strategy of diminishing the Palestinian workforce, in the way of replacing it gradually by migrant workers from the Philippines, China, Thailand and Eastern European countries.”
- SA: The Promotion of Black Self-Government Act (1958); Israel: “Israel’s cabinet adopted a series of measures Sunday, aimed at facilitating Palestinian elections on January 9.” … “Many Palestinians fear this is another setup so when the inevitable failure brought about by Israeli intransigence occurs, this will be another opportunity to blame the Palestinians, and accuse them of missing an opportunity once again.”
Which brings us, finally, to the Black Homeland Citizenship Act (1971). Discrimination against Arabs within Israel is hardly the sole or even gravest purpose for criticizing Israel as an apartheid regime. The greater question is in relation to Israel’s intentions for Palestinian statehood. People often tout Barak’s offer at Camp David as being the end-all, be-all evidence of Palestinian rejectionism: “We offered them everything!” But what were they really offered?
A quick perusal of this map outlining Barak’s offer demonstrates the existence of a Palestinian state within five non-contiguous territories, divided by Jewish settlement blocks and surrounded by Israeli controlled territory on all sides. This reflects precisely the bantustan system within apartheid South Africa:
Bantustan refers to any of the territories designated as tribal “homelands” for black South Africans during the Apartheid era. The term “bantustan” was first used in the late 1940s and was coined from Bantu (meaning “people” in the Bantu languages) and -stan (meaning “land of”), and was based on Hindustan. It later became a disparaging term used by critics of the Apartheid-era government’s “homelands”.
These homelands were allocated to blacks by the white Apartheid government of the Republic of South Africa and were designated to become independent states under a plan called “Separate Development”. This plan would have given independence to blacks in these newly created tribal states, while stripping them of their South African citizenship, leaving whites as the majority in South Africa. Originally, there were to be about ten Bantustan-Homelands. These small, quasi-sovereign regions were established under the 1951 Bantu Authorities Act, and began to be given “independence” in 1976.
As Israel proceeds in drawing “facts on the ground” in the form of its security barrier and its expansion of settlement blocks, and Mahmoud Abbas makes overtures to the acceptance of a Palestinian state within these designated territories, this scenario has already become the situation Palestinians find themselves in. Thus, in light of these facts, I ask you: Is it so absurd or contentious to make the claim that Israel is an apartheid state?
by Mobius · Monday, January 31st, 2005
The Detroit Free Press reports,
On Thursday, world leaders — a king and queen, presidents and prime ministers — gathered in Poland to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, where 1 million people, mostly Jews, were murdered.
But as the world focused on the past, an increasing number of European Jews are concerned — to quote Sammy Ghozlan, a retired Calais police chief who now investigates anti-Semitic crimes — that “after decades of peace, the old taboos against anti-Semitism are broken. There is no future here for a Jew.”
Full story.
by Mobius · Monday, January 31st, 2005
Ami Eden’s spittin’ fightin’ words:
For more than half a century, Auschwitz has rightly stood at the heart of virtually every moral argument put forth by spokesmen for the Jewish community, a powerful testament to the consequences of otherwise decent people remaining silent in the face of evil. Yet this legacy is in peril, threatened by an increasing reliance on raw political muscle over appeals to conscience.
Jewish organizations and advocates for Israel should remember that “speaking truth to power” does not work when you are seen as the powerful one.
Check out his complete op-ed.
by Mobius · Monday, January 31st, 2005
UPI reports,
A Supreme Court judge Sunday ordered a Jewish woman who helped Palestinian militants remain in custody until her trial ends.
The judge, Eliakim Rubinstein, thus overturned a Tel Aviv District Court’s decision to release Tami Fahima, 28, into house arrest.
Full story. For more info on Tali’s case, visit FreeTaliFahima.org.
by Mobius · Monday, January 31st, 2005
A new play making its rounds about schools and religious institutions throughout the UK tells the true story of a Holocaust survivor and her post-Shoah friendship with the daughter of a “recalcitrant” Nazi. Enter Jude Zigguener, stage left.
by Holy Terror · Monday, January 31st, 2005
The most troubling aspect of Israeli society today is the apparent inability of the liberal left to accept the existence and growth of a Jewish religious community within the state. There can be no doubt anymore that Jewish-Israeli society today is in the midst of a cultural war (the outcome of which will determine the character of the state of Israel for years to come). Consider the following statements made by the leading figures of the “enlightened liberal left”:
- Prof. Uzi Arnon; “We have to hang the Orthodox from every lightpole.” (Chadashot 30.10.92)
- Uri Avneri; “The time has come to bury them.” (HaOlam HaZe 10.11.88)
- Arnon Yekutieli; “There will yet be dead in this war” (Bar-Ilan St. 30.12.94 Kol HaIr)
- Prof. Uzi Arnon; “We must impatiently await the youth…that will fight the real enemy of the state of Israel. (Al Hamishmar 20.1.84)
- Shimon Peres; “We’re fighting 2 wars-a war for peace and a war against the religious. The war for peace is more important.” (Interview with “Kol Israel” Radio 13.5.93).
- Shulamit Aloni; “We’re in the midst of a war with Orthodox Judaism: We must not make any compromises.” (16.6.93 party meeting in Ramat Gan)
- Yigal Tamarkin; “When I see the Orthodox, I understand the Nazis.” (”Tel Aviv” 1986)
- MK Naomi Chazan (Meretz); “Only if we’ll succeed in getting rid of this evil, this black satan, only then will we be able to develop all the good of this country.” (Chadashot 30.12.92)
- Prof. Ginsburg; “Orthodox are the parasites on the body of our state.” (”Kol HaIr” 3.1.92)
- Shulamit Aloni; “You [Orthodox] sit on us as parasites, drink our blood and spill our blood” (in Knesset 3.7.91)
- Meretz election flyer; “There must be a fighting, secular free group that will stand against the spread of the Orthodox block.”
- Shulamit Aloni; “The Orthodox is darkness, rotten…the only language they understand is violence.” (Knesset 16.6.86)
- Prof. Zev Sternal; “Only when one is prepared to go with tanks against Ofra [Jewish settlement in Samaria], will we be able to block the fascist tide that threatens to drown Israeli democracy. In my opinion there are worse disasters than civil war, such as the destruction of democratic culture. A society can come out better for a civil war.” (Davar 15.4.86)
How come leftist love flows for everyone except the Orthodox? Find out why.
by Holy Terror · Monday, January 31st, 2005
There is a consensus, especially along the Gav HaHar region in the Shomron (comprised of Kfar Tapuach, Elon Moreh, Itamar, Yitzhar and Har Bracha), that the two-state solution might be the best salvation from all the travails of Arab terror.
The states of Israel and Judea, that is.
by Holy Terror · Monday, January 31st, 2005
I went to Hevron for Shabbos. It was awesome. I visited Baruch Goldstein’s grave. It took three random IDF jeeps to escort us up and down the ten minute walk from Givat Avot (by Kiryat Arba) to Maarat Hamachpela. Then again, a group of Jews were stoned by a mob of about 30 Arabs- which stopped when the soldiers (G-d bless them and keep them safe from Arabs and leftists alike) came.
We went on a heavily guarded tour of the Arab shuk during the day…it was heartbreaking to see all of the holes carved into the stone doorposts where mezuzot used to be, where Arabs took over after the 1929 massacre of the Hevron Jews, before there was any green line… I saw where the Jews had made nets over the alleys of the shuk because Arabs would constantly dump trash over their streets… I saw Jewish stars engraved over doorways, where huge yeshivot used to be, where victims of Arabs who spoke fluent Yiddish were stabbed to death.
Yes, we know, Hevron was never a Jewish city.. we know…(sarcasm).
by Mobius · Monday, January 31st, 2005
Tonight is the yahrzeit of Menachem Mendel of Kotzk (aka The Kotzker Rebbe):
Menahem Mendel of Kotzk (1787-1859) was one of the outstanding and most original leaders of the hasidic movement. Born near Lublin into a non-hasidic family, he was attracted to the movement in his youth and became a disciple of Jacob Isaac ha-Hozeh (”the Seer”) of Lublin, of Jacob Isaac (”The Holy Jew”) of Przysucha, and later of Simhah Bunem of Przysucha. His teachings, although part of Hasidism and in some ways continuing its classic lines of thought, are in other ways diametrically opposed to the teachings of the founder of Hasidism, Israel ben Eliezer Ba’al Shem Tov (the Besht). Menahem Mendel indeed meant a revolution within Hasidism, and would-be followers flocked to his side. While the Besht emphasized love, joy, and compassion for this world, Menahem Mendel demanded constant tension and an unmitigated militancy in combating this egocentricity. The Baal Shem Tov was kind to everyone, and Menahem Mendel was harsh. In Medzibozh there was light, but in Kotsk there was fire where furious zeal of the prophets of old came back to life. Classical Hasidism tried to reach all the Jews, while Menahem Mendel was interested only in the select, the few. Above all in importance to Menahem Mendel was the quest for absolute truth which he taught could be reached only through utmost freedom. Such freedom meant not to give in to any outside pressures, it meant not to conform, nor try to please oneself or anyone else. Adopting a non-hasidic approach for the day, Menahem Mendel taught that truth could be discovered through in-depth study of Torah and Talmud, a method touted by the Lithuanian mitnagdim, the ideological rivals of the hasidim. Finally, Menahem Mendel taught that the true worship of God is not in finding the truth, but rather in the honest search for it.
Source. Nods to Esti for the heads-up.
by Holy Terror · Monday, January 31st, 2005
CAUSE G-D SAID ISRAEL BELONGS TO THE JEWS EVEN IF THE JEWS DISAGREE.
Discuss.
by John Brown · Sunday, January 30th, 2005
Douglas Jehl - writing in The New York Times - exposes that despite earlier disclosures, the CIA has refused to hand over hundreds of thousands of pages of additional documents sought by a government working group, the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group. The CIA is required to hand over the papers under a 1998 law known as the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act.
A book, “U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis,” that was released by the working group in May provided a partial picture of those dealings. It has shown that the U.S. government worked closely with Nazi war criminals and collaborators, allowing many of them to live in the United States after World War II.
Source
by The Town Crier · Sunday, January 30th, 2005
Lasting less than two days, “vandals” have done away with the signs proclaiming an Oregon road “adopted” by the “American Nazi Party.” County officials will not replace them until the adopting party pays for new ones.
Some suggested a rule for the cleanup program that disallows any groups advocating discrimination. They wondered whether Osama bin Laden and groups of pedophiles could also sponsor a road and get a sign.
Others supported the rights of the Nazi party to say and express what they wanted. And were glad the skinheads were planning to do their part in cleaning up the road.
by Mobius · Sunday, January 30th, 2005
Interesting story in The Forward on a growing crop of young, Jewish anti-globalization activists. (c/o Aryeh)
by Mobius · Sunday, January 30th, 2005
An excellent essay on frum literati in The NY Times. (c/o Eli)
by Mobius · Sunday, January 30th, 2005
Don’t worry — this time, it’s the Jews!
A political storm is brewing over the Labour Party’s plans to launch a campaigning poster that has been branded offensive to Jews.
The advert depicts party leader Michael Howard and shadow chancellor Oliver Letwin, who are both Jewish, as flying pigs.
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Tory candidate Andrew Mennear, who is also councillor for the Frognal and Fitzjohns ward, said: “I am shocked that the Labour Party finds it remotely clever or amusing to impose the faces of probably the two highest profile Jewish politicians on to flying pigs.”
Full story and commentary available from our friends at Daily Jews.
by Mobius · Sunday, January 30th, 2005
“Miriam” writes,
Is this a weird coincidence, or divine intervention? Within days of stumbling upon Jewgoo, and finding an interview with you in which you mention the ‘fry in hell’ quote of Rabbi Hertzberg, and you actually say he said this in his interview with Executive Intelligence Review — and in an honest way, no less — the incredible Rabbi has given a more extensive interview to EIR, on Holocaust Memorial Day.
It will be out next week, and hopefully will be posted on larouchepub.com.
Welp, looks like Rav Hertzberg can’t get away with claiming ignorance this time. Unless he’s completely forgotten our conversation… Which, knowing him, actually, seems entirely likely.
