Protesting the Arab takeover of Bat Yam
Arutz Sheva says that '
hundreds' of people came out to Monday's
demonstration in Bat Yam, while
JPost says 200. So which was it?
Let's go to the videotape.
Baruch Marzel and the demonstrators got it right.
I don't understand why only the 'nationalists' are opposed to the assimilation in Bat Yam. All Orthodox Jews should oppose the assimilation in Bat Yam.
Labels: Bat Yam, intermarriage, Jews for a Jewish Bat Yam, Lehava
Jews for a Jewish Bat Yam
It's sad that such a demonstration is even necessary in Israel.
But it is.
After a rabbis' letter instructing Jews to not sell or rent apartments to Arabs, racist behavior reaches new low [not my view. CiJ]: An organization called Jews for a Jewish Bat Yam is expected to protest on Monday against the "assimilation of young Jewish women with Arabs living in the city or in nearby Jaffa."
The protest will be held around 7:30 pm near the Bat Yam mall, not far from the police station. The organizers are also expected to show support for the controversial rabbis' letter.
"It's a local organization of Bat Yam residents, because the public is tired of so many Arabs going out with Jewish girls," explained one of the organizers, Bentzi Gufstein. "In addition to the protest, we will hand out pamphlets explain the situation."
The organization behind this local protest is actually the Lehava organization, which works to prevent intermarriage in Israel. The right-wing activist Baruch Marzel and a few local rabbis will participate in the demonstration, and the organizers are expecting hundreds more.
During the past week, posters have been hung around the city calling residents to come out and protest. Some of the posters explain: "I will not allow them to hit on my sister! What would you do if an Arab hit on your sister? Put an end to it! Recently we have learned of a grave phenomenon: Hundreds of girls from Bat Yam and the center get together with Arabs, they are integrated amongst us, their confidence rising. Put an end to it! Lower their confidence!"
Another poster reads: "Keeping Bat Yam Jewish. Arabs are taking over Bat Yam, buying and renting apartments from Jews, taking and ruining Bat Yam girls! Around 15,000 Jewish girls have been taken to villages! Jews, come on, let's win!"
No, it's not a 'new low' as YNet claims. The Jewish people survivied for 3,000 years because we did not intermarry. Those who intermarry - God forbid - are lost to the Jewish people. In the case of Arabs marrying Jewish women, the women soon find themselves tortured prisoners. I am personally acquainted with people who rescue these women and hide them from their husbands. Remember
this story?
Read the whole thing. It's sickening that these people are being labeled 'racists.' Those of you who are in Israel may want to think about joining them tonight.
Labels: Bat Yam, intermarriage, Jews for a Jewish Bat Yam, Lehava
55% of Jewish Israelis back ban on sale or rental to Arabs
The
chattering classes may not be very happy about the
rabbis' letter banning sales or rentals of homes to Arabs, but the
Jewish public is largely in favor.
A survey by the
Panels Institute (link in Hebrew) at the end of last week shows that 55% of Israel's adult Jewish population is in favor of the ban. That includes 41% of secular Israelis, 64% of traditional Israelis and 88% of the Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox. 58% oppose firing the rabbis who are state employees and who signed the letter. That includes 46% of secular, 73% of traditional and 92.5% of the Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox.
The survey then asked what you would do if an Arab family moved into your neighborhood. 69% of the secular, 52% of the traditional and 15% of the Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox said they had no problem with that. 24% of the secular, 31% of the traditional and 78% of the Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox said that they would try to stop it.
Margin of error is 4.4%.
I don't expect that the rabbis will be fired, and I suspect that the numbers that support the substance of the ruling are much higher. For years, it's been the seculars of Tel Aviv and its environs who insist that we must separate from the Arabs. But they can't admit rabbis are right about anything, and they can't admit that they agree with refusing to rent to Arabs because, after all, that would make them 'racists.'
The picture at the top is Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, the chief rabbi of Tzfat (Safed) who started all this.
Labels: Deuteronomy 7:2, Lehava, Panels Institute, Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, renting or selling land to non-Jews in Israel
More politicians want to fire the rabbis
Minister without portfolio and MK
Benny Begin (Likud) has come out strongly against the rabbis who signed a letter calling on the public not to sell or rent real estate to Arabs.
“One must differentiate between the legal and public situation,” Begin told The Jerusalem Post, stressing the public significance of such a discriminatory letter. “From a moral-public point of view, the city rabbis should not be able to continue to proceed carrying on their public responsibilities, if they do not retract their letter, as some have already done.”
While not elected by the public, they are publicly appointed figures who serve in official positions as municipal rabbis, Begin said.
“It would be morally-publicly impossible for them to continue in their official positions on behalf of the public,” he said, reiterating a similar statement he made on Thursday morning, before [Attorney General Yaakov] Weinstein made his announcement [that he was opening an investigation. CiJ] public.
When asked if the public might side with the rabbis on this issue, as suggested by a few recent polls, Begin explained that the rabbis were appointed by the state, the establishment, which is against such sentiment.
As for the polls, well, it might be that “once again I am in disagreement with the public,” he said.
In response to a question from the Post about what practical measures the government might take against these rabbis, Begin replied that “first of all, we must respond, publicly, to indicate to the public, to the Arab sector, that we do not agree with the letter.”
It also turns out that Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef has refused to sign the letter.
A group of right-wing activists recently approached head of Shas’s Council of Torah Sages Rabbi Ovadia Yosef in an attempt to convince him to add his signature to the letter against renting or selling land in Israel to non-Jews, Channel 2 reported Sunday night.
According to the report, the senior Sephardi adjudicator refused to sign, and told the activists that it was “an unnecessary and harmful petition, such statements shouldn’t be made, next thing we know Jews in London and Paris will be told the same thing.”
Meanwhile, National Union Chairman Yaakov Katz has written a letter to Attorney General Weinstein.
“My bewilderment comes as we have never heard you similarly instructing your attorneys to examine criminal elements in the declarations of radical-left public figures, who demonstrate and ceaselessly that homes in Jerusalem should not be sold or rented to Jews,” Katz wrote. “The perplexity is even greater, since your office is in the Shimon Hatzadik [Sheikh Jarrah] neighborhood, where weekly such demonstrations take place.”
Katz urged Weinstein’s swift response, “to refute the sentiments within the public I represent,” which might “feel that you are continuing the path your predecessors led and the dominant line among your attorneys, which displays hatred and persecution against anything that smacks of Judaism and Torah.”
Yes, the attorney general's office is known to lean strongly left and secular.
In the meantime, the controversy is escalating, with another organization opening up an office to '
out' Jews who sell or rent land to Arabs.
The Lehava anti-assimilation organization announced on Sunday that it is opening a telephone center against the phenomenon of Jews selling or renting homes to Arabs. The announcement follows the rabbinical statement of opposition to such sales or rentals that has been signed by hundreds of rabbis and educators.
People calling 052 225 8183 will hear a recorded message in Hebrew telling them to leave details about people selling or renting their homes to Arabs. Lehava will then verify the information and publish the names of the people on a monthly basis.
Hey if selling or renting your home to an Arab is nothing of which to be ashamed, no one should mind if the fact that they do so is made public, right?
Heh.
Labels: Benny Begin, Deuteronomy 7:2, Lehava, renting or selling land to non-Jews in Israel, Yaakov Weinstein
