Right Wing Group Calls For Boycott Of Jewish-Owned Stores That Employ Arabs

"Do you want your grandson to be named Ahmed ben Sarah?" a street poster slapped on the walls of Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods inquires, in a not-so-subtle dig at the Yesh retail chain. The problem the authors of the broadside (pashkevil, in Hebrew) have is that Yesh, the Haredi arm of the Super-Sol supermarket chain, allows Arab men to work alongside Jewish women.

 

Poster calling to boycott stores where Arabs work with Jewish women spotted in Jerusalem
Campaign by right-wing group Lehava aims to prevent intimate relationships between Jews and Arabs.
By Adi Dovrat-Meseritz • Ha’aretz

"Do you want your grandson to be named Ahmed ben Sarah?" a street poster slapped on the walls of Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods inquires, in a not-so-subtle dig at the Yesh retail chain.

The problem the authors of the broadside (pashkevil, in Hebrew) have is that Yesh, the Haredi arm of the Super-Sol supermarket chain, allows Arab men to work alongside Jewish women.

The poster features the Yesh logo next to a photograph of two employees chatting - or as the poster puts it, "An Arab man courting a daughter of Israel at the Givat Shaul branch."

TheMarker has discovered that the organization behind the pashkevil is Lehava, a Hebrew acronym for "Preventing Assimilation in the Holy Land." (Don't confuse it with the Finance Ministry division called Lehava, which is devoted to narrowing digital gaps in Israeli society. )

"One of the biggest problems today is that Jewish employees at retail chains are assimilating with Arab employees," said Bentzi Gupstein, one of the anti-assimilation group's leaders. "Just two weeks ago a Jewish woman working at a branch of Shefa Shuk in Jerusalem left a Haredi home and went to live with an Arab employee she'd met at the store."

"We are publicizing the problem to make people understand that there is a problem, and to encourage people to buy from places that hire Jewish labor. The posters influence the Haredi community," Gupstein added.

As part of its efforts to prevent any romantic ties between Jewish women and Arab men, Lehava launched riots in Safed and Afula, and demonstrations in Bat Yam and the south Tel Aviv neighborhood of Hatikva.

Super-Sol issued a statement saying the Yesh chain condemns all violent and harmful acts against any sector.

"We will continue to serve all sectors and communities, and are glad to employ thousands of people from all parts of society," the chain said.

Image: Certificate issued by the Lehava organization certifying a store only emplys Jews.

Comments

[seymour]

simple solution do not hire any heridie connected person

problem solved let them rot

[CHAIM.S]

not hiring arabs,or not renting them apartments,has nothing to do with racism,
and you all know it,it has all to do with PIKUACH NEFESH,self preservation,would any one of you,take into your house a venomous snake,or a killer tiger? of course not'does that make you a animal hater? of course not.99% of arabs living in Israel,are murderous jew haters,whom he accuses of stealing his land,and would he think he can get away with it,he would slit the throat of every jewish man woman and child,they are a fifth column in our country,and not only should we not hire them,but we should make every effort to get rid of this cancer,before it spreads and kills us all, like Meir Kahane saiD already 40 yrs ago THEY MUST GO,even the insane leftist's realize this by now,but being that leftis'm is a severe mental disease,and is suicidal,they will not do anything about it

[anuran]

Seymour, if the Haredim don't get hired Israel will be, mmm, pretty much exactly like it is now.

[What kind of goyishe name is Harold z"l?]

Arabs are very dangerous. I am not going out on a limb here. It's in the news every day. You need only (honestly) look around in the world today. Even as they kill their own mamzeirim, they (and the rest of the sick UNited world) blame the Jews. Hashem Yishmor.

[PishPosh]

Seeing as Arabs want the whole world to boycott Israel, I see nothing wrong with Israels citizens boycotting Arabs. Let the countries who worship at the boycott list hire these guys. For whatever reason they dont want Arabs working with Jews, I see it as a way to boycott the boycotters. The end result is the same. The Arabs get no money as Israel gets no money for being boycotted and divested.

[seymour]

and you all know it,it has all to do with PIKUACH NEFESH,self preservation,would any one of you,take into your house a venomous snake,or a killer tiger? of course not'does that make you a animal hater? of course not.99% of arabs living in Israel,are murderous jew haters,whom he accuses of stealing his land,and would he think he can get away with it,he would slit the throat of every jewish man woman and child,they are a fifth column in our country,and not only should we not hire them,but we should make every effort to get rid of this cancer,before it spreads and kills us all, like Meir Kahane saiD already 40 yrs ago THEY MUST GO,even the insane leftist's realize this by now,but being that leftis'm is a severe mental disease,and is suicidal,they will not do anything about it

Posted by: CHAIM.S | April 24, 2011 at 11:24 AM

this statement stands on its own a racist statement

of course I am not racist against Jews but since 99% of them are fraudsters, it is not racist when I say I will not do business with them since I know I will get cheated

[David]

I am no great lover of Arabs, but SOMEONE has to do the work. I am sure the store would love to employ more Jewish workers in the Charedi districts but since the Charedim refuse to work, what exactly is the store meant to do?

[Arab]

The commentators here are giving yet another glaring example of Israel's Moral Degeneration.

If I was to come out and say the the Jews are like "venomous snakes", "tigers", I would have been an Anti-Semite. But apparently, racism, Bigotry and Xenophobia is OK, as long as it does not involve Jews. Just goes to show, that the Average, Non-Haredi Jew can be just as bigoted and racist as the Haredis are.

[Dovit]

So I suppose Hitler could have used the old "I am just practicing pikuach nefesh" argument, eh? And that would have made it alright, I suppose.

[Der Yassin Dweller]

It's time to give the Palistinians their own State- in Jordan!
They must go!

[David]

It's time to give the Palistinians their own State- in Jordan!
They must go!

Agreed. But this can't happen as long as the Charedim - who claim Jewishness, refuse to either work or fight.

[Bill]

Uh, Pish-Posh, Arabs are Israeli citizens.

[Dovit]

it has all to do with PIKUACH NEFESH,self preservation

Oh, so all hitler had to do was claim he was just practicing pikuach nefesh.