Hi all; Interesting long article on why Russian Nazis move to Israel rather than Germany:
Anti-Semitism, right here at home
Lily Galili, Haaretz, January 22, 2005
Not long ago the first Israeli neo-Nazi Internet site was launched. To put it more precisely, it is actually an Israeli site in the Russian language. Who says there are no original productions here?
To the list of oddities by which the world is now defined, a few local paradoxes can be added. It appears that the number of Russian Jews who will emigrate to Germany this year will be larger than the number who come to Israel; the law under which Jews from the former Soviet Union can immigrate to Germany is close to the restricted definition of "Jewish under Jewish law." The Israeli Law of Return, however, is in fact based on the Nuremberg Laws, in which the Germans expanded the definition of who is Jewish in accordance with their own needs.
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The site is well organized. It has text and pictures showing the activists of the organization, "The White Israeli Union," some of them in Israel Defense Forces uniforms on the background of army camps and saluting with a raised arm.
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Recently, skinheads have been seen in Hatzor and Kiryat Shmona. In Russian bookstores in Israel, books that promote Holocaust-denial are sold openly (which is against the law), as are cassettes of neo-Nazi songs like "The Nazis are Coming."
Gilichinsky's attempts to enlist the help of the Anti-Defamation League, the president of Israel and the official site maintained by the State of Israel and the Jewish Agency have all been answered in the same spirit: "It's not our mandate. Our mandate is anti-Semitism around the world, not in Israel." However, newspapers in Europe, including the Russian Pravda, have been glad to publish comprehensive reports on the new phenomenon of anti-Semitism in Israel.
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... Judging by many forums and chat groups on the Internet, the voting patterns of this population that is hostile to Israel and the Jewish people that dwells here are scattered all over the political spectrum from right to left. ...
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It must be understood that there are cases in which a verbal anti-Semitic reaction is a response to racism encountered here by non- Jewish immigrants, especially the young people whose lives the Israeli establishment embitters, pushing them to alienation from the state.
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But above all, dealing with the phenomenon must begin with the demographic madness, whereby everyone is welcome to come here as long as he is not an Arab.
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Yardeni, who defines himself as a "liberal rightist," agrees with Mashour: "The cure is far worse than the illness," he says. "I am thoroughly ashamed of having participated at the time in this system of bringing over everyone possible. I am against this demographic madness that you describe, in the framework of which we bring in the sickest elements."
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haaretz.com
-- Carl
P.S. More on the same subject:
June 24, 2003
buzzle.com
August 2, 2003
ourjerusalem.com
Israeli National News, September 4, 2004
The democratic nations of Western Europe and North America are not the only countries whose ethno-cultural character and stability are threatened by mass immigration. Unmonitored immigration is also wreaking havoc in Israel. Jew-hatred in the Jewish State - a seemingly impossible paradox - was made possible by mass immigration.
In the 1980s and 1990s, thousands of people left the dying Evil Empire for Israel and are continuing to leave the post-Soviet republics. This aliyah (return to Zion) was the biggest yet in the history of Israel. However, because of the misguided policies of the Israeli government and institutions such as the Jewish Agency, an ever-growing number of the Soviet immigrants are not even Jewish.
The idiotic "grandfather clause" of the Israeli Law of Return allows persons who only have one Jewish grandparent, and are thus only one-quarter Jewish, to receive asylum and citizenship in Israel. In addition, the relative ease with which fake birth certificates and passports can be obtained on the post-Soviet black market allows ever growing numbers of people who have nothing in common with Jews or Judaism to come to Israel. As a result, out of the nearly one million Russian-speaking immigrants in Israel, about 300,000 are not Jewish.
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At a soccer match in Haifa in which Israel played the Russian Federation, drunk Russian youths shouted down the Israeli national anthem and yelled anti-Semitic slogans - an incident almost identical to the infamous anti-American debauchery of Mexican fans at a soccer game in Los Angeles a few years ago, except that it was "Hatikva" that was booed down instead of the "Star Spangled Banner".
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Ariel Sharon and the rest of the Israeli leadership, along with an overwhelming majority of Israelis, do not see mass non-Jewish immigration as a problem. Recently, Sharon stated that he plans to bring one million Jews from the Russian Federation to Israel. The only question is where will Arik get so many Russian Jews, since the Jewish population of Russia is below 500,000. It is obvious that Sharon does not want to consider the tremendous threat that is being posed to the already fragile stability and ethnic character of the Jewish State. Sharon is hoping to use the non-Jewish immigrants as cheap and docile manpower in the Israeli army and hopes to offset the alarming rise of the Arab population by substituting one hateful and growing minority with another. Quite a plan, Arik!
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israelnn.com
Also see:
pogrom.org.il
This all gets back to the subject of the long-term survivability of the Israeli state as Jewish nation. Like I've said before, it's all about demographics. If I were running the Israeli state, I'd be trying to figure out how to convert as many people as possible to Judaism. I've got my doubts that this is possible. |
