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Related: About this forumMeet the Israelis protesting against Christmas
http://972mag.com/meet-the-israelis-protesting-against-christmas/114346/
Notorious racist organization Lehava and its leader stage an ugly protest outside the Jerusalem YMCAs tree-decorating ceremony, against forced conversion, and demanding that Christians go back to Europe.
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Like scavengers descending upon a carcass in the desert, Benzi Gopstein (leader of the racist anti-miscegenation group Lehava) and a dozen teenagers gathered outside the YMCA to protest against the abomination taking place inside. The police, who knew in advance that Gopstein and friends were planning to show up, were prepared and kept them on the other side of the street, next to the King David Hotel.
And thus, inside the YMCA many dozens of families celebrated and sang together in brotherhood and joy; outside, a sad congregation listened to Gopstein ramble off slogans into a megaphone: The children of Israel want Hanukah, not fir trees! The children of Israel want to learn Shema Israel! Dont send our children to be forcibly converted! Christians, go back to Europe! We dont want your gifts and candies!
It seems Lehavas holy mission is no longer safeguarding the purity of the daughters of Israel from the seduction of Arab men. Its new mission, it seems, is to safeguard the racial purity not only of the family unit, but of the entire country.
Notorious racist organization Lehava and its leader stage an ugly protest outside the Jerusalem YMCAs tree-decorating ceremony, against forced conversion, and demanding that Christians go back to Europe.
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Like scavengers descending upon a carcass in the desert, Benzi Gopstein (leader of the racist anti-miscegenation group Lehava) and a dozen teenagers gathered outside the YMCA to protest against the abomination taking place inside. The police, who knew in advance that Gopstein and friends were planning to show up, were prepared and kept them on the other side of the street, next to the King David Hotel.
And thus, inside the YMCA many dozens of families celebrated and sang together in brotherhood and joy; outside, a sad congregation listened to Gopstein ramble off slogans into a megaphone: The children of Israel want Hanukah, not fir trees! The children of Israel want to learn Shema Israel! Dont send our children to be forcibly converted! Christians, go back to Europe! We dont want your gifts and candies!
It seems Lehavas holy mission is no longer safeguarding the purity of the daughters of Israel from the seduction of Arab men. Its new mission, it seems, is to safeguard the racial purity not only of the family unit, but of the entire country.
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Meet the Israelis protesting against Christmas (Original Post)
R. Daneel Olivaw
Dec 2015
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oberliner
(58,724 posts)1. Nice to know such protests manage only minuscule turnout
Good to see it was just a dozen teenagers doing this.
King_David
(14,851 posts)2. Seems more a Jewish issue than IP
Perhaps should be posted in Jewish Group.
Not sure what the reason anyone would post about intolerance of some Jewish individuals for Christmas in this group ?
Really strange.
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)3. It's Israel, dave. Deal with it.
question everything
(47,271 posts)4. You forgot the sarcasm note
Israeli
(4,132 posts)6. If your Jewish I suppose KD ....
But there are over 160,000 Israeli citizens who are Christians ....I'm sure it bothers them dont you think ?
King_David
(14,851 posts)7. Definitely, its shameful.
Israeli
(4,132 posts)5. Good to see how many rally against them ....
Hundreds rally against racist group 'Lehava' in Jerusalem
http://972mag.com/hundreds-rally-against-racist-group-lehava-in-jerusalem/99947/
Nu oberliner ?
http://972mag.com/hundreds-rally-against-racist-group-lehava-in-jerusalem/99947/
Nu oberliner ?
The protest was organized by a group of activists who identify as: Jerusalem doesnt stay silent in the face of racism. Protesters held signs in Hebrew and Arabic that read Stop the racism and Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies. They called out chants like Lehavas racism begins in the government and Jerusalem will not be silent; outlaw racism.
+972 blogger Orly Noy, whose children also attend the bilingual school, also spoke at the rally. This type of violence does not take place in a vacuum, Noy told the crowd and wrote in a post later Saturday night (Hebrew). It sprouts from a bed of growing deligitimization of the Palestinian population in Jerusalem, both inside Israel and in the occupied territories.
Three Israelis arrested for the arson attack on the mixed Arab-Jewish school in Jerusalem two weeks ago are active members of Lehava, Israels Channel 2 reported Thursday, after a Shin Bet gag order was lifted on the case.
One of the suspects is from Jerusalem and the other two are brothers from the West Bank settlement Beitar Illit. The three reportedly admitted in their interrogation by the Shin Bet that they carried out the attack because they object to Arab-Jewish coexistence and that they hoped their act of arson would raise public awareness against the phenomenon.
One of the suspects is from Jerusalem and the other two are brothers from the West Bank settlement Beitar Illit. The three reportedly admitted in their interrogation by the Shin Bet that they carried out the attack because they object to Arab-Jewish coexistence and that they hoped their act of arson would raise public awareness against the phenomenon.
This is not the first time Lehava has been directly tied to acts of violence. In September, two Palestinians from East Jerusalem, Amir Shwiki and Samer Mahfouz, were beaten badly by a group of Jewish Israelis, several of them identified as activists with Lehava.