239 posts categorized "Xenophobia"

June 27, 2011: Rabbi's Arrest Sparks Citywide Protests
Comments: 15 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Israel , MO & Chardal , Religion, Religion & State , Xenophobia
The arrest of Dov Lior for his connection to a racist text that calls for the murder of Arab babies on the grounds that they may one day grow up to hate us sparks protests and riots across Israel's capital....

June 27, 2011: Report: Chief Rabbi Of Kiryat Arba Arrested
Comments: 16 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Chabad , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Israel , MO & Chardal , Religion, Religion & State , Xenophobia
Dov Lior was pulled over while driving and arrested. While the reason for the arrest has not yet been made public, there has been a standing arrest warrant for Lior for months because he refused to answer a police summons...

June 24, 2011: An Ultra-Orthodox Foray Into Genetics
Comments: 20 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , Jewish Leadership , MO & Chardal , Religion, Religion & State , Science , Sefardim , Torah & Science , Xenophobia
In the seemingly never-ending battle over who can and who can not perform conversions to Judaism the State of Israel will recognize, an Sefardic ultra-Orthodox government minister ventures to genetics to explain why ultra-Orthodox Jewish law must determine conversion issues....

April 16, 2011: Rights Report Finds Problems With How Israel Treats Refugees, Non-Orthodox Jews
Comments: 9 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , Refugees , Religion, Religion & State , Xenophobia
The United States Department of State's annual report on Human Rights finds problems with how Israel treats its Arab citizens, how it treats West Bank Palestinians, how it seems to ignore or respond slowly to settler violence against Palestinians –...

April 8, 2011: Rabbi Reissues Call To Not Rent Or Sell Homes To Arab Israelis
Comments: 50 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , MO & Chardal , Religion, Religion & State , Sefardim , Xenophobia
"This struggle has nothing to do with racism and hatred. It is aimed in its entirety only at preserving our state as Jewish." Safed rabbi says struggle to keep the city Jewish moving forward Chief Rabbi of Safed's latest statement...

March 20, 2011: Gang Of Haredim Stabbed Me 10 Times, Christian Arab Says
Comments: 19 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Religion, Religion & State , Xenophobia
Israeli citizen Alber Halul, who was stabbed Saturday night by a group of masked men he claims are haredim, recounted the attack Sunday. "They threatened to shoot us if we resisted and stabbed me 10 times – in my head,...

February 26, 2011: NGOs Slam Israel Government Decision To Build Holding Facility For Refugees
Comments: 13 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , Refugees , Religion, Religion & State , Xenophobia
Non-governmental organizations expressed their outrage following reports this week that the Population, Immigration and Borders Authority was building a detention facility to house illegal residents of Israel and their children – mostly refugees from Africa – as they await deportation....

February 14, 2011: Sudanese Refugee, Knifed And Beaten, Says Attackers Were A Gang Of Skullcap Wearing Jews
Comments: 17 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Religion, Religion & State , Xenophobia
Ali Alhira, who was stabbed in back and stomach by eight men with skullcaps, recounts moments of horror from his hospital bed. "They assaulted me and my brother without any reason, and no one did anything." 'I said I was...

February 12, 2011: Sudanese Men Attacked By Gang, Stabbed In Bnei Brak
Comments: 11 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Xenophobia
The tension escalating between residents in predominantly haredi Bnei Brak and illegal refugees came to a head Saturday when two Sudanese men were attacked with knives and clubs by a gang of Israeli youths. An initial police investigation found that...

January 13, 2011: When The Messiah Comes, Israel Will Deport Him
Comments: 41 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Religion, Religion & State , Xenophobia
In wall posters, Sabbath sermons, ritual decrees and signed petitions, careful not to use his title, chief rabbis of cities and towns will warn of an existential threat to the essential Jewish character of the state. Under no circumstances are...

January 12, 2011: Leading Settler Rabbi: Gentile Sperm Causes Children To Have Negative Genetic Traits
Comments: 74 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Chabad , Israel , MO & Chardal , Religion, Religion & State , Xenophobia
Rabbi Dov Lior rules that Jewish Law prohibits sterile couples from getting pregnant using non-Jewish man's sperm, because he says the child will have the "negative genetic traits that characterize non-Jews." On subject of single mothers he says, the "child...

January 6, 2011: Exclusive: Satmar Racism Revealed
Comments: 135 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Xenophobia
"When the world was a world, and Blacks were slaves. The Blacks would clean snow for the White people." – Satmar Newspaper Der Blatt, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York. Under the picture above printed, I think, because of the recent blizzard...

January 5, 2011: African Refugee Tricked Into Deportation By Interior Ministry, Judge Rules
Comments: 3 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , Religion, Religion & State , Xenophobia
The Administrative Court on Tuesday harshly criticized the Interior Ministry and Ketziot Custody Court after they tricked an African asylum seeker into siging a request to return to Chad, without having the document translated to his native language, and despite...

January 4, 2011: Fake? MK Says Fake Facebook Page Opened To Smear Him
Comments: 10 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Israel , MO & Chardal , Xenophobia
Yaacov Katz claims 'quotes' attributed to him calling for all Bedouin to be put in "pounds" and for some to be shot are fake. Katz says reporters took those quotes off a Facebook page opened in his name, apparently by...

January 4, 2011: Poll: Foreigners Jeopardize Israel's Jewish Character
Comments: 5 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , Religion, Religion & State , Xenophobia
Survey reveals majority of Jewish Israelis believe influx of immigrants and foreign workers greatly endangers the Jewish character of State; 43% oppose having a church or mosque built next to their homes. Poll: Foreigners jeopardize Israel's Jewish character Survey reveals...

January 2, 2011: Last Week, Sergeant Salman Amar Saved More Than 100 Israelis From Death, But Rabbis Do Not Want You Rent A Home To Him
Comments: 15 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , MO & Chardal , Religion, Religion & State , Xenophobia
According to dozens of public leaders and educators in Israel, Jews are forbidden from renting an apartment to Amar. He is a Druze, in other words, he is a minority, in other words, he is a non-Jew. More than 70...

January 1, 2011: Eritrean Tells of His Cruel Odyssey to Israel
Comments: 22 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , Religion, Religion & State , Xenophobia
On a bed in his tiny shared apartment in Tel Aviv, Mekonen Kefete bares his right leg to illustrate the story of his journey to Israel. It is dotted with dark black marks where red-hot iron bars were cruelly poked...

December 30, 2010: Rabbis' Meddling Brings Awful Results
Comments: 22 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Med-Ethics, Public Health , MO & Chardal , Religion, Religion & State , Sefardim , Xenophobia
Can you imagine the agony and suffering that patients, anxiously waiting on the transplant list, and their families went through when they were first told that suitable organs were available, only to be told later that the family had rescinded...

December 29, 2010: Separate And Decidedly Unequal
Comments: 2 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Xenophobia
After the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that he never could have imagined where the cycle of rabbinical incitement, combined with a sense of political endorsement and rabble-rousing, would lead. It would seem, however, that Netanyahu...

December 28, 2010: Orthodox MK: Arrest All Bedouin, Put Them In "Pounds," And Shoot Those Who Bring Refugees To Israel
Comments: 13 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , MO & Chardal , Religion, Religion & State , Xenophobia
"We must arrest all Bedouins, put them in pounds and shoot a bullet to the head of those who head the convoys. Three or four Bedouins will be shot down, and the convoys will stop. Put all the Bedouins in...

December 27, 2010: Senior Aide To Finance Minister Under Attack For Questioning Motivation, Pedigree Of Russian Immigrants
Comments: 15 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , Religion, Religion & State , Xenophobia
Several Knesset members called yesterday for the dismissal of a high-ranking adviser to Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz for saying that hundreds of thousands of Russian-speaking immigrants who received citizenship because of their Jewish heritage are not actually Jewish and "came...

December 27, 2010: Jim Crow In Israel?
Comments: 6 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Xenophobia
In 1951, a black man was charged and convicted of assault with intent to rape, although he was 75 feet away from his alleged victim at the time of the "assault." This was only one of many instances in the...

December 27, 2010: Report: 10 Percent of Tel Aviv Residents Non-Jewish Foreigners
Comments: 1 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , Religion, Religion & State , Xenophobia
Municipality report depicts fast-growing foreign population living mainly in southern neighborhoods, says migrant workers mainly 'normative', with 'strong work ethic' but asylum-seekers have 'many problems' including domestic violence. Report: 10% of Tel Aviv residents foreign Municipality report depicts fast-growing foreign...

December 26, 2010: Thousands Of Israelis Protest Goverment Decision To Build "Detention Camps" For African Refugees
Comments: 29 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , Xenophobia
"This isn't a refugee camp because a refugee camp is intended for humanitarian purposes. Israel isn't even constructing a holding facility. What it's constructing is a ghetto – a concentration camp. The only kind of people to be imprisoned there...

December 26, 2010: Demons On The Streets Of Israel
Comments: 3 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , Religion, Religion & State , Xenophobia
This is not a predominantly racist country, but we are guilty of failing to recognize victimhood in others. Demons on the streets of Israel This is not a predominantly racist country, but we are guilty of failing to recognize victimhood...

December 26, 2010: African Refugees Trying To Reach Israel Are Trapped And Tortured In Egypt
Comments: 2 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , Religion, Religion & State , Xenophobia
Physicians for Human Rights carried out interviews with over 150 refugees who did manage to enter Israel and whose accounts paint a picture of severe violence endured over the course of their journey. 'Asylum seekers trying to reach Israel are...

December 25, 2010: African Refugees To Israelis: Please Do Not Hate Us
Comments: 9 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , Religion, Religion & State , Xenophobia
"We assure the Israeli public that we are not a threat to Israel or to its Jewish character. We have been labeled with so many names so far, such as economic migrants, infiltrators and so on, expressing in a contradictory...

December 20, 2010: Sudanese Refugees' Apartment Torched
Comments: 7 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Israel , Religion, Religion & State , Xenophobia
Five Sudanese nationals suffered from smoke inhalation on Saturday after an unknown assailant tried to set fire to their apartment in the southern city of Ashdod. Refugees' flat torched in Ashdod Burning tire thrown at apartment's door; five Sudanese nationals...

December 18, 2010: Israel's Mistreatment Of African Refugees
Comments: 8 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , Religion, Religion & State , Xenophobia
A nation made up of Holocaust survivors and refugees became a nation that oppresses black African refugees. Menachem Begin never would have acted this way. But Begin's disciples and the disciples of Ben Gurion, Rav Kook, Ovadia Yosef, and the...

December 17, 2010: Racist, Xenophobic Israel
Comments: 11 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , MO & Chardal , Religion, Religion & State , Xenophobia
"150 infiltrators have already been made to leave…,” Orthodox Knesset member Uri Orbach said. “I suggest that you use the right tone when managing your struggle and stop saying that the infiltrators are thieves or criminals. As soon as you...

December 16, 2010: U.S. Rabbis Offer Rare Rebuke Of Israeli Anti-Arab Edict
Comments: 6 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Xenophobia
“The halachic issues here are complex,” said Rabbi Shmuel Goldin, first vice president of the Rabbinical Council of America, the largely Modern Orthodox rabbinic group. “But a blanket statement that singles out a certain population and says ‘Don’t rent to...

December 16, 2010: Was Israel's Repatriation Of Sudanese Refugees Really Voluntary?
Comments: 8 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , Xenophobia
Activists on behalf of Sudanese migrants in south Tel Aviv said Tuesday they found it difficult to believe that, as an Israeli official has said, the 150 asylum seekers deported to Sudan on Monday night - one-third of whom were...

December 15, 2010: Israel Bars Palestinian Firefighters From Ceremony Honoring Them
Comments: 11 | Categories: Israel , Xenophobia
Israel barred a group of Palestinian firefighters who helped battle the country's worst wildfire from attending a ceremony in their honor Tuesday, the latest in a series of embarrassments over Israel's handling of the blaze. Palestinian Firefighters Barred From Israeli...

December 15, 2010: Israel Forces Deportation Of Sudanese Christian Refugees
Comments: 10 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , Religion, Religion & State , Xenophobia
"I don't doubt that there are people interested in returning to in order to participate in the battle for the independence of southern Sudan, but why were only children and mothers present on the flight, without fathers? Couldn't they have...

December 10, 2010: Israel's Attorney General To Explore Criminal Charges Against Rabbis
Comments: 2 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Religion, Religion & State , Xenophobia
Israel's legal establishment to examine rabbis' letter forbidding rental of homes to Arabs. In response to a petition against the signatories of the rabbis' letter, attorney general's office says rabbis' statements were 'inappropriate for public officials.' Israel's legal establishment to...

December 9, 2010: Amid Uproar, Two Rabbis Pull Their Names From Letter Banning Rental Of Homes To Arabs
Comments: 15 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Xenophobia
Rabbi Simcha HaCohen Kook and Rabbi Yaakov Edelstein said they decided to remove their names from the letter because they did not agree with its content. 48 other rabbis still endorse the letter. Amid uproar, two rabbis pull their names...

December 9, 2010: Yad Vashem: Banning Rental Of Homes To Arabs Is A Blow To Jewish Values
Comments: 13 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Xenophobia
"Past experiments have taught us just how important, and at the same time how fragile, these basic values are to coexistence and honoring the other." Yad Vashem: Forbidding rental to Arabs is a blow to Jewish values 'Past experiments have...

December 7, 2010: "Racism Originated In The Torah," Haredi Rabbi Says
Comments: 25 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Religion, Religion & State , Xenophobia
"Racism originated in the Torah," said Rabbi Yosef Scheinen, who heads the Ashdod Yeshiva. "The land of Israel is designated for the people of Israel. This is what the Holy One Blessed Be He intended and that is what the...

December 7, 2010: 50 Top Rabbis Sign Ruling Forbidding Renting Or Selling Homes To Arab Israelis
Comments: 20 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Religion, Religion & State , Xenophobia
Three dozen top Israeli rabbis, including Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, threw their support Tuesday behind a religious ruling barring Jews from selling or renting homes to non-Jews — an indication of growing radicalism within the rabbinical community at a time...

December 3, 2010: Spreading Racism And Xenophobia In Israel
Comments: 16 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , Xenophobia
The disease is malignant and metastatic, spreading with alarming speed. From Safed to Eilat, through Tiberias and Bnei Brak, one city after another is declaring: I am racist. Spreading racism and xenophobia The national intimidation campaign against foreigners must be...

November 30, 2010: Racism: Haredi City Attempts To Expel All Non-Jewish Refugees And Migrant Workers
Comments: 14 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , Xenophobia
Inspectors paid by the city, accompanied by other government officials, went door to door and notified African refugees and migrant workers that foreigners are not allowed to live in Bnei Brak. Ultra-Orthodox town of Bnei Brak moves to evict migrant...

November 28, 2010: Rabbi Okays Renting Apartments To Arabs
Comments: 4 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Xenophobia
In response to a widely circulated rabbinical ruling against renting out flats to Arabs, migrant workers or African refugees, the head of Petah Tikva hesder yeshiva says "Jewish sovereignty cannot exist without caring for foreigners living among us." Rabbi okays...

November 24, 2010: Hypocrisy? Haredi City Launches Campaign Against Foreign Workers – While Simultaneously Employing Them
Comments: 8 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , Xenophobia
Bnei Brak city hall launched a public campaign against renting apartments to migrant workers and refugees two weeks ago, but it now appears the municipality actually employs a number of migrant workers itself. Israeli town launches campaign against foreign workers...

November 21, 2010: Bnei Brak Moves To "Shame" Landlords Who Rent To African Refugees And Other Non-Jews
Comments: 15 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Crime, Litigation, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Refugees , Xenophobia
Haredi city's new whistleblower hotline invites neighbors to report and "shame" homeowners who rent homes and apartments to African refugees and other non-Jews. Bnei Brak battles African 'infiltrators' Whistleblower hotline invites neighbors to report, 'shame' homeowners who rent to migrants...

November 15, 2010: Today's African Refugees Like "Midianite Raids On Israel In Biblical Times"
Comments: 16 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , Refugees , Xenophobia
Some protestors said the refugees "chase our daughters," while others called the Africans "beasts" and claimed they "spread diseases, drink and steal." "Those who say I'm racist can go to hell in their black-free buildings and neighborhoods." MK: African migrant...

November 11, 2010: Haredi City Moves To Out Landlords Who Rent To Sudanese Refugees
Comments: 5 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , Refugees , Xenophobia
One Bnei Brak official said the city is considering the possibility of revealing the landlords' names "so the public will learn the identity of those whose personal monetary interests outweigh the harm caused to the general population." Bnei Brak may...

November 8, 2010: Haredi Rabbis Rule: Do Not Rent Apartments To Sudanese Refugees
Comments: 20 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , Xenophobia
"It spoils the neighborhood's spirituality. Our young guys are drawn to them, and go speak with them. We are not against the Sudanese; the government must take care of them – either by building them their own neighborhoods, or by...

October 28, 2010: Haredim Move To Get Extra Government Financial Support For Themselves In Order To Displace African Refugees
Comments: 4 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , Religion, Religion & State , Sefardim , Xenophobia
A Shas councilman is promoting a motion to give haredim who want to move to south Tel Aviv rent support, property tax exemptions, and kindergarten discounts in order to fight "culture of African refugees flooding the city." Haredim to get...

October 27, 2010: Knesset Panel Approves Controversial Bill Opponents Fear Will Allow Towns To Reject Potential Residents Based On Religion, Beliefs, Gender & Class
Comments: 17 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , Religion, Religion & State , Xenophobia
The bill has sparked wide condemnation and many believe it to be discriminatory and racist, since it allows communities to reject residents if they do no meet the criteria of "suitability to the community's fundamental outlook", which in effect enables...

October 10, 2010: Chabad Rabbi In Bed With British Group Linked To Racist Skinheads And Soccer Hooligans
Comments: 20 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Chabad , Religion, Religion & State , Xenophobia
Chabad's "Surfing Rabbi" Nachum Shifren, a regular speaker at Tea Party conventions, will go to Britain to speak at a convention of hard right British extremists and skinheads about Sharia law. Shifren will also discuss fundraising issues. Please watch this...

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