Tens of thousands of Jews in Israel and abroad have asked if the Orthodox Jews have become – more racist? Do they have God’s permission to believe they are superior to everyone who is not a Jew, and Jews who practice Reform Judaism? Three hours after my last post, I read the following article about Jews celebrating the idea that they have done so much damage, and killed so many innocent people, that “voluntary migration” is…..THE FINAL SOLUTION! The Jews have turned Palestinian homes into a WASTELAND they can point to, and tell the inhabitants..
“This is your fate – if you do not leave on your own!”
I suggested this was the plan of the Religious Racists that God made? I am looking at the real possibility thousands of Jews joined the Confederacy because they did not want to live in cities where Black Men walked down the street – as equals.
John Presco
Israeli ministers attend conference calling for ‘voluntary migration’ of Palestinians
Attendance of 11 cabinet ministers and 15 coalition members of Knesset appears to violate ICJ ruling on Gaza war
Bethan McKernan in JerusalemMon 29 Jan 2024 10.05 EST
Ministers and parliamentarians in Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government have attended a conference calling for Israeli resettlement of the Gaza Strip and “voluntary migration” of the Palestinian population elsewhere.
Sunday’s event in Jerusalem, called the “Victory of Israel Conference: Settlement Brings Security”, hosted speeches by well-known extremists in Netanyahu’s cabinet, including the national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, and the finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich. It was attended by approximately 1,000 people, including 11 cabinet ministers and 15 members of the Knesset, some of them members of the prime minister’s Likud party.
The prominent role of government figures in the far-right conference appears to violate the international court of justice ruling last week that Israel must “take all measures within its power” to avoid acts of genocide in its war in Gaza, including the “prevention and punishment of genocidal rhetoric”.
The war in Gaza, now approaching its fourth month, was sparked by the unprecedented 7 October attack by the Palestinian group Hamas on Israeli communitiesthat killed 1,140 people. More than 26,400 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s retaliatory offensive, and the strip’s 2.3 million people are grappling with a dire humanitarian crisis.
In their remarks on Sunday, both Ben-Gvir and Smotrich called for the re-establishment of Jewish settlements in Gaza and the north of the West Bank, known to some Israelis as Samaria.
Participants, who included influential rabbis, settlement leaders and families of soldiers fighting in the Gaza Strip, were presented with maps and detailed preparations for the re-establishment of a Jewish presence in the areas inside what is considered internationally as the borders of a would-be Palestinian state.
Several participants carried guns, and outside the convention centre vendors sold T-shirts reading: “Gaza is part of the land of Israel.” One speaker was Rabbi Uzi Sharbag, a former leader of the banned far-right terrorist group Jewish Underground.
Ben-Gvir said: “We must encourage voluntary migration. Let them leave. Part of correcting the mistake of the sin of the preconception that brought us to 7 October is to return home to Gush Katif [southern Gaza] and to northern Samaria. We have to return home, because that is the Torah, that is morality, that is historic justice, that is logic and that is the right thing.”
He also reiterated his support for bringing back the death penalty for terrorist offences.
Smotrich said in his speech: “I took a beating in the eighth grade when we opposed the terrible folly of the Oslo accords. We yelled until we were hoarse: ‘Don’t give them guns,’ and they didn’t listen to us,” he said, referring to the failed peace process with the Palestinians in the 1990s.
“I had the privilege of fighting against the expulsion from Gush Katif and northern Samaria. I paid for that with my own liberty.”
Other members of the coalition government in attendance included: Shlomo Karhi, the Likud communications minister; Orit Strook, a member of the far-right Religious Zionist party and the minister of settlements and national missions; Yitzhak Goldknopf, the leader of the Ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party and the housing minister; and Likud member of the Knesset Haim Katz.
The event drew horrified reaction from elsewhere in the Israeli political spectrum, as well as criticism from the US, Israel’s most important ally.
The leader of the opposition, Yair Lapid, said Netanyahu’s coalition government, elected in 2022, had “reached a new low”. “This poses international damage, undermines potential negotiations, endangers soldiers, and reflects a grave lack of responsibility,” he said.
A senior US official told the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth: “The radical right’s conference with calls to renew Jewish settlement in Gaza is simply repulsive.
“This is an awful mistake by Netanyahu, who didn’t prevent it. It raises questions as to whether Bibi has his hands on the wheel at all,” he said, using the prime minister’s well-known moniker.
On Monday, France’s foreign ministry condemned the conference. “We expect from the Israeli authorities a clear denunciation of these positions,” a ministry spokesperson said.
Netanyahu’s office did not comment on the conference, but when asked about it the day before, he said attendees were “entitled to their opinions”.
The prime minister has previously dismissed suggestions that Israel will re-establish a civilian presence in Gaza after the conclusion of the war. Earlier this month, however, he said he would “not compromise on full Israeli security control over all of the territory west of the Jordan [river] – and that is in opposition to a Palestinian state”.
Netanyahu’s government, the most rightwing in Israel’s 75-year history, has made settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank a priority since it took office at the end of 2022. Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories are viewed as illegal by the majority of the international community, including the Biden administration.
The Israeli occupation began in 1967. Today about 500,000 Israelis live in East Jerusalem and the West Bank; Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza in 2005, forcibly evacuating approximately 8,000 settlers in the process.
Two years later, Hamas seized control of the coastal territory after winning a brief civil war with its secular rival Fatah, resulting in the Israeli and Egyptian blockade.
Many on the Israeli right have never forgiven what they regard as Israel’s left-leaning political and security establishments, as well as the judiciary, for the decision to leave Gaza.
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Israel: US condemns ‘abhorrent’ Ben-Gvir attendance of Kahana memorial
Far-right politician says main characteristic of late Jewish supremacist rabbi was ‘love’
Itamar Ben Gvir arrives for parliamentary consultations with parties elected in the Knesset, at the Presidential Residence in Jerusalem on 10 November 2022 (AFP)
By MEE staff
Published date: 11 November 2022 13:02 GMT | Last update: 1 year 2 months ago
The United States has condemned far-right Israeli MP Itamar Ben-Gvir after he attended a memorial honouring a Jewish supremacist rabbi who inspired deadly attacks against Palestinians.
US State Department spokesperson Ned Price said it was “abhorrent” that Ben-Gvir attended the annual event on Thursday in which he praised Meir Kahane, an anti-Palestinian advocate whose political party was outlawed as a terror group in the US and Israel.
“Celebrating the legacy of a terrorist organisation is abhorrent,” said Price when asked about Ben-Gvir’s attendance at a State Department briefing.
“We are concerned by the use of Kahane’s legacy and rhetoric by extremist and violent right-wing activists,” he added.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Israel
https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Is-Judaism-Racism-489457
https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Is-Judaism-Racism-489457
Just recently, Thomas Lopez-Pierre, who is bidding for a seat in the NYC council, said, “Greedy Jewish Landlords are at the forefront of ethnic cleansing/pushing Black/Hispanic tenants out of their apartments.” Zionism has already been accused of racism, but today we are seeing the argument that Jews favor only their coreligionists gaining more and more turf.It makes sense to think of Judaism as a racist religion. After all, we are regarded as “a people who dwells apart, and will not be reckoned among the nations” (Numbers 23:9). Throughout the ages, we have been defined as “the chosen people,” “a light unto nations,” and other depictions that set us apart from the rest of humanity. But is Judaism itself racist? Does it aspire to subordinate other nations? Does it demand to convert non-Jews to Judaism? Does Judaism assert that being Jewish grants prerogatives that are not to be given to people of other faiths?As we will see, the truth is to the contrary. Judaism means more commitment and more demands from its own adherents, and not from anyone else. Instead of requiring the subjugation of others, it requires the commitment of Jews to serve humanity.
“The Jewish story, in particular, shows that it’s much more complicated,” said Eric Goldstein, a history professor at Emory University and author of “The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity.”
Many Jews in the US who present as White have come to be seen as part of the nation’s dominant White majority. But as antisemitism has seeped into the mainstream, and as threats and violence against Jewish people have become more prevalent, questions about where Jews fit into the country’s racial landscape endure.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/mar/07/debunking-myth-that-anti-zionism-is-antisemitic
https://www.timesofisrael.com/sephardi-chief-rabbi-disparages-reform-jews-they-have-nothing/
Sephardi chief rabbi disparages Reform Jews: ‘They have nothing’
Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef attacks Reform Judaism following High Court ruling recognizing conversions; says marriages to converts are invalid
By TOI STAFF7 March 2021, 4:43 am
Israel’s Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef attends the traditional selling of hametz (food containing leavening) of the State of Israel to a non-Jew before the upcoming Passover holiday, on March 29, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
Israel’s Sephardi Chief Rabbi, Yitzhak Yosef, has denigrated the Reform movement following a High Court ruling last week recognizing Reform and Conservative conversions performed in Israel for citizenship purposes.
“What is Reform conversion? It isn’t Jewish,” Yosef said in footage aired by Hebrew media on Saturday.
“If a Reform convert comes before me after marrying a Jewish woman, I’ll send her away without a divorce. She doesn’t need a divorce, the marriage is invalid,” he said.A Stop to the Trucks – The Times of IsraelKeep Watching
Reform and Conservative Jews “have nothing, no mitzvahs and nothing else,” he said.
Yosef made the comments this week in a weekly lesson at a synagogue in Jerusalem, according to Kikar Hashabbat, an ultra-Orthodox news site.
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The bombshell High Court decision last week recognizes Reform and Conservative conversions carried out in Israel and sparked an uproar in the ultra-Orthodox community.
The decision requires Israel to grant citizenship to those in the country who convert to Judaism under non-Orthodox auspices. It will have little effect on the ground, but dents the ultra-Orthodox-dominated Rabbinate’s control over conversions in the country.
Ultra-Orthodox leaders do not view the Reform movement as an authentic form of Judaism and do not recognize Reform rabbis.
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Attacks on Reform Jews by ultra-Orthodox, or Haredi, Israeli leaders are nothing new. A top priority of Haredi politicians in recent decades has been to preserve the monopoly of Orthodox rabbis over official religious ceremonies in Israel and prevent the government from recognizing the liberal Jewish denominations — Reform and Conservative — that represent most American Jews.
Yosef has a history of making provocative comments, including against Reform Judaism, women, the High Court of Justice and Black people.
He has called Reform synagogues a form of “idolatry” and said the movement “falsified the Torah”; suggested secular women behave like animals due to their immodest dress; and questioned the High Court’s authority on rulings pertaining to religion, while vowing to ignore its decisions.
Last year Yosef caused public outrage after doubting the Jewishness of immigrants from the former Soviet Union. In 2018, Yosef came under fire after he likened Black people to monkeys during his weekly sermon, a comment that led to calls for a criminal investigation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Israel
https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Is-Judaism-Racism-489457
https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Is-Judaism-Racism-489457
Just recently, Thomas Lopez-Pierre, who is bidding for a seat in the NYC council, said, “Greedy Jewish Landlords are at the forefront of ethnic cleansing/pushing Black/Hispanic tenants out of their apartments.” Zionism has already been accused of racism, but today we are seeing the argument that Jews favor only their coreligionists gaining more and more turf.It makes sense to think of Judaism as a racist religion. After all, we are regarded as “a people who dwells apart, and will not be reckoned among the nations” (Numbers 23:9). Throughout the ages, we have been defined as “the chosen people,” “a light unto nations,” and other depictions that set us apart from the rest of humanity. But is Judaism itself racist? Does it aspire to subordinate other nations? Does it demand to convert non-Jews to Judaism? Does Judaism assert that being Jewish grants prerogatives that are not to be given to people of other faiths?As we will see, the truth is to the contrary. Judaism means more commitment and more demands from its own adherents, and not from anyone else. Instead of requiring the subjugation of others, it requires the commitment of Jews to serve humanity.
“The Jewish story, in particular, shows that it’s much more complicated,” said Eric Goldstein, a history professor at Emory University and author of “The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity.”
Many Jews in the US who present as White have come to be seen as part of the nation’s dominant White majority. But as antisemitism has seeped into the mainstream, and as threats and violence against Jewish people have become more prevalent, questions about where Jews fit into the country’s racial landscape endure.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/mar/07/debunking-myth-that-anti-zionism-is-antisemitic
https://www.timesofisrael.com/sephardi-chief-rabbi-disparages-reform-jews-they-have-nothing/
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