Sefat Jewish Landlord Kicks Out Druze Students After Haredi Threats

Almost a year after Zionist Orthodox and haredi rabbis' published a letter illegally ordering Jews to not rent or sell apartments to Arabs, Druze and other non-Jews – even those who serve in Israel's army – racism strikes in Sefat once again. Less than a day after four students from the Druze town of Buq'ata in the Golan Heights rented out an apartment in Sefat, their  landlord ordered them to pack their belongings and vacate the home after haredim issued threats.

The Chief Rabbi of Sefat Shmuel Eliyahu. Eliyahu has been a major instigator of anti-Druze, anti-Arab racism.

Safed landlord kicks out Druze students
Druze students ordered to vacate apartment after haredi neighbors threaten landlord
Ynet

Almost a year after [Zionist Orthodox and haredi] rabbis' [published a] letter [illegally ordering Jews to not rent or sell apartments to Arabs and other non-Jews], racism strikes in Safed once again: Less than a day after four students from the Druze town of Buq'ata in the Golan Heights rented out an apartment in Safed, their  landlord ordered them to pack their belongings and vacate the home.

The landlord told them he received threats from ultra-Orthodox neighbors demanding he "not rent out the apartment to Arabs."

The four tenants signed the lease agreement about a week ago, ahead of the new school year. They moved in Sunday morning before beginning their first day at university.

During class one tenant received a phone call from the landlord.

"He asked that we not return to the apartment at this time because the haredi neighbors were waiting for us. He told us to come back and clear out the flat until it'll all blow over," said one of the students, Amal Zahui.

The landlord did not deny the students' claims and issued the following statement: "It's not relevant why it happened. I just don't want to rent out apartments, neither to Arabs nor to Jews."
 
Zahui stressed that prior to signing the contract he did not notice any sign of objection from the landlord.
 
"We didn't expect that on the first day of our academic school year we'd be met with such racism. Now we have nowhere to go and I don't know where we're going to sleep tonight," he said.

One of Zahui's roommates, Jalal Amasha, said the students have no intention of filing a complaint with the police, explaining they do not wish to "make a big deal out of this."

"The landlord apologized and we're going out to look for a different apartment," Amasha said.

Comments

[Max]

Just imagine it was the other way around, and Jews tried moving into the arab or Druze neighborhoods. There wouldn't be any warning. The lynchings would have been old and tired news already. And of course, the world would have blamed the fucking Jews for thinking that they can move wherever they want and take over neighborhoods that have been Arab or druze forever.

[Max]

The entire West Bank and East Jerusalem settlements were built either on land bought from Arabs, or on no-man's land. And yet the world condemns the fucking Jews for stealing arab land. Abbas said that the future state of Palestine would be Juden-rein.

That's okay.

But if Tsfat Jews don't want Arabs moving on to their blocks because they are fucking petrified of these Arabs, because they don't want their ten year old kids stabbed in front of their own homes, because they don't want to live in constant fear, that is racism.

Go figure.

[Dovit]

Well, now the "fucking Jews" are just like the Arabs -stabbing and killing people for renting out apartments. So now the "fucking Jews" can't complain when it's done to them. Nice going - they became what they hated most.

[SkepticalYid]

Yo Max, Druze serve in the Israeli army just like Jews. They've been loyal to the state since it's founding. So you know what you can do with your racist crap.

[seymour]

Posted by: Max | October 30, 2011 at 06:29 PM

he max the druze do more for Israel than the herdiem do.

I here that many frum people are being kicked out of their apartment in willie since people do not want them there because they force woman to the back of the bus

i guess thats ok with max

[seymour]

what is amazing is that the Jews a have been at the wrong end of racism, yet only the secular Jews learn from that to be progressive and more tolerant

the frum have learned zero

and what chuzpha to do it to the druze who risk their live for the country as opposed to many frum

they are truly a blithe and an embarrassment to Jews

[Shlomo]

No surprise here. Read Gilad .atzmons new book to understand who these supremacists really are

[David]

Its strange how despite this the frumma rely on the Druze to (a) work to pay taxes to support the parasitic lifestyle of the frumma; (b) protect them by fighting in the IDF (which the frumma refuse to do) and (c) work for the frumma as "Shabbos goyim" so they can circumvent the laws of Shabbos by exploiting loopholes. The Druze are also loyal and faithful Israeli citizens, unlike the frumma.

[ultra haredi lite]

The chilonim do this to the frumma all the time. Yawn.

[The real Joe]

I know the tzfas situation these are deff not the type druzem whom serve in the army and the people fighting them are mostly not traditional charadim this collage has attracted negative attention amongst the local people due to the fact that they are building this whole fancy school in a city of 99 percent Jews for a student body of 80 precent Arab the Arabs aren't exactly trying to behave they drive their cars with blasting music on Friday nights disrespecting the local Jews so before calling the Jews raceist pigs note all of the above

[Yissy-CA]

Posted by: Max | October 30, 2011 at 06:29 PM

You "fucking" fool. The Druze are peace loving, productive, pro-Israel citizens in the Jewish state. They are persecuted in the the Arab world just like the Jews. The Arabs look down on the Druze. They are at peace with the Jews and the state. They serve in the army, go to school, work and raise families who do the same. They do not deserve this. This is a total shame and heart breaking.

[Adam Zur]

there definitely is a problem with that collage. I agree with the real Joe. you really have to be there to realize that these are not the regular Druze. These are radical that have definite political Internet. this whole collage attracted these types for many years.It is bad news. But since it was small it did not attract attention until recently.

[Max]

You "fucking" fool. The Druze are peace loving, productive, pro-Israel citizens in the Jewish state. They are persecuted in the the Arab world just like the Jews. The Arabs look down on the Druze. They are at peace with the Jews and the state. They serve in the army, go to school, work and raise families who do the same. They do not deserve this. This is a total shame and heart breaking.

Posted by: Yissy-CA | October 31, 2011 at 01:48 AM

you're the fucking fooll You sit on your high horse in comfortable CA and haven't the slightest fucking clue what the people in Israel have to go through. The fact is that the Druze overall are not like the Muslims. But there are plenty of videos on Youtube showing the druze throwing stones at the Israeli army (most recently when the syrians tried storming the border in the summer from the Golan)

If you had any idea what is going on in Tsfat, you would shut the fuck up. These young Druze and other Arabs coming into the Tsfat college are very radical, and they cause many provocations to the Jewish families who live on these blocks.

You Yissy, were probably never in Tsfat, and you haven't the slightest idea that these are very narrow streets, where neighbors live in each other's backyards and share 4x4 sq ft courtyards. These young single arabs are moving into the neighborhood and causing total pandemonium for the neighbors, for the children. Parents are petrified to let their kids out at night. (Just a few short years ago, Tsfat was one of the safest cities in Israel vis a vis Arabs. Today, it is like Jaffa, with Arabs roaming the place at all hours of the day and night.)

Every parent wonders if their child will meet a Levi Aron type arab, or just a plain run-of-the-mill Arab with a knife. These young Arabs are now NEIGHBORS of these Jewish kids!
So before you shoot off, find out what the hell is going on. The Chief Rabbi of Tsfat did what he did after years of Tsfat being run down the sewer from this college. And now with the expansion, it's about to get worse.

So you don't have to agree with his approach, and almost all haredi rabbis didn't agree with him, (most rabbis who signed with im were MO - dati), but he isn't doing it to be racist. He is doing it so that parents won't be petrified every time they kiss their kids goodbye to go to school, wondering if their kid will make it home that day.

So shut up, you fucking fool, and have a little empathy for people who live in a constant fucking war zone, while you sleep soundly in your plush CA home, you idiot.

[Ruthie]

I understand why that issur was published; they don't want to create a situation where it's not only an Arab majority (which I don't care so much about), but where the Arabs who inhabit a town start harassing the Jews who still live there, whether sexually or violently (both happen).
I love their humanity, could care less about their ethnicity, hate their culture. Because it is their culture that gives them the assumption that if they're weak and on the descent politically, they should just keep quiet and try to live in peace with their neighbors, but if they are strong and on the upswing, they start getting nasty and hostile.
This is not to say that it's okay for the hareidim, or anyone else, to react violently like that.
The rule of law must be respected, regardless of which side is "right," and those hareidim acted outside the law.
As far as the Israeli Druze go: yes, they are Arabs, but they are their own community, with their own separate culture, and on the whole (and unlike Arabs in general), they have indeed been peace-loving, productive, pro-Israeli citizens. If there truly is a problem with the particular Druzim in Tzfat, I wouldn't know, so I'm not going to pretend I know what I'm talking about when it comes to Tzfat.

[Max]

And by the way, it seems that Shamrya and Yassi-CA have it wrong. Druze ARE Arabs. They are just not Muslims. Druze is a religion separate from Islam. Most Arabs practice Islam, some practice Christianity, and a small minority practice the Druze religion.

[ruthie]

druze are arabs. SO WHAT.
show them some respect.
don't lynch them before knowing them.

peace starts when a neighbor can go to a neighbor and borrow some milk.

[Yosef ben Matitya]

if anything, tzfat has to be cleaned of racist shmuel keliyaku and his fellow tzfasi chasidic fiends. bunch of ugly animals reeking of gutter.

[Adam Zur]

I agree with yoseph that safed has major problems. It seems to have become a magnet for fanaticism even worse than Jerusalem.--
Once upon a time the Druze villages were peaceful and loyal Israeli citizens. Meor Chayim was build by Rabbi Moshe Erenster who was a normal peaceable Hungarian son in law of the Viznitzer rebbi. --normal and peace loving and completely non pretentious. The problems I think started with Breslov on the mountain and in Chabad--both have taken a terrible toll on the atmosphere in Safed and changed it into a crazed terrible lunatic asylum
The later problems that Yoseph is referring to I think started after this original core of bad vibes.

[Max]

Ruthie,

I appreciate your honesty, that you won't comment on Tzfat beacuse you don't really know tha facts. Unfortunately, so many people on this site comment without knowing details.

[Ruthie]

Max,
How DARE you imply I don't know what is going on in safad.
Max, open your eyes and mind

[Mendel Mendel]

Hey Max, I loved your comment that in Tsfat, "Parents are petrified to let their kids out at night." Because of the Druz?! You gotta be kidding. I have lived in EY for 40 years and never heard of a Druzi being accused of child molestation. And how many times have I heard of chareidim being accused (and convicted) of child molestation? Let's see, 1, 2, 3, ... whoops - I ran out of fingers.

[seymour]

Posted by: Ruthie | October 31, 2011 at 04:12 AM

wow you just explained herideim exactly

[Friar Yid]

Every parent wonders if their child will meet a Levi Aron type arab

This comment is particularly silly given that Levi Aron was most definitely not an Arab and demonstrated the very real threat that can come from a "frum" Jew who is off his nut. Yet you don't hear about mobs or rabbis pressuring landlords not to rent to single Jews.

How fortunate that the wise people of Tsfat are perceptive enough to know that the only dangers to their children come from Arabs.

Good luck with that.

[Yosef ben Matitya]

keliaku (and his forefathers) along with the chosids of tzfas and the racists hatred filled rabid commentators to this posting are what is called in hebrew:
שארית הרפש שמתחת לזבל

[Guest]

Guys, check this out:

http://www.haaretz.com/news/rightists-buying-housing-in-druze-town-to-boost-jewish-population-1.233300

I want everyone to gang up on the Druze the same way we ganged up on the haredim for doing the exact same thing.

[freethwest]

just for the record the druze harassed, pillaged and raped jews in the times of the arizal. Eyin Zutim was famous for druze banditry, let them all go to Lebanon

[Friar Yid]

freethewest- Just for the record, the Arizal was living almost 500 years ago. The Druze could have been baking Jews into pies; if they're loyal citizens now it shouldn't make a difference as to how they're treated.

[Litvish]

Are they Orthodox or Reform Druze? Maybe Reconstructionist.

[Yosef ben Matitya]

freethwest
why don't u go to your beloved aryan west?
free the west and settle there where you belong with your kin!
this is semitic land. jews are ok, but u don't sound like one!