Rami Levi employs many Arabs, and that angers right wing Jews – including haredim – who say the Arabs, primarily men, cause Jewish women to stray. The Arabs allegedly seduce the Jewish women and girls and cause them to intermarry.
Lehava's head Bentzion Gopstein
Haredim Join Right Wing Group To Demand Supermarkets Fire Arab Workers
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
Supermarket chain owner Rami Levi is under attack by a right wing racist group for hiring too many Arabs, Yeshiva World reported.
Levi is known as a philanthropist who aids many charities, including many haredi charities.
But in two of his stores in the West Bank, especially the one in the heavily haredi Betar Illit, Levi employs many Arabs, and that angers right wing Jews – including haredim – who say the Arabs, primarily men, cause Jewish women to stray. The Arabs allegedly seduce the Jewish women and girls and cause them to intermarry.
So Lehava, the right wing racist anti-Arab group headed by Bentzion Gopstein, a follower of the late radical Rabbi Meir Kahane, organized protests to try to force Rami Levy (and other supermarket chains) to fire their Arab workers.
Lehava reportedly called the protest an “opening shot” in their campaign to force out all non-Jewish workers from these supermarkets.
Many haredim reportedly joined Lehava in the protest and for a conference on preventing “assimilation” that preceded it.
[Hat Tip: Seymour.]