{"id":20605,"date":"2016-03-18T10:28:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T17:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=20605"},"modified":"2016-03-18T10:28:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T17:28:00","slug":"5-of-the-most-appalling-acts-of-incitement-from-israel-this-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/18\/5-of-the-most-appalling-acts-of-incitement-from-israel-this-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"5 of the Most Appalling Acts of Incitement From Israel This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 23\/02\/2016, I posted  <\/span>5 of the Most Appalling Acts of Incitement From Israel This Week<\/span><\/a><\/strong> by David Sheen, part of the Grayzone Project. <\/span><\/p>\n

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As I said in February, there is no doubt that the Jewish people suffered grievously at the hands of Hitler and the Nazis during WWII.  Throughout history, the Jews have suffered through pogroms and wars.  But it seems to me that they, at the hands of Netanyahu and his cronies, have become the oppressor.  No group of people is all bad, nor all good.  People are people.  But when one group openly calls for the annihilation of another, genocide, it is time to take action.<\/span><\/p>\n

From <\/span>Alternet<\/strong><\/span><\/a> — Our latest edition of Israel Incitement Watch focuses not only on the racist statements of Israel's political and religious leaders, but on the first-ever Pew poll of Israeli Jews, which found that racist sentiments were not confined to a fringe, but are embraced by a large segment of the population.<\/p>\n

3. Chief rabbi calls for killing attackers and cutting off contact with seculars.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wading into an ongoing national debate<\/a> over how Palestinians who attack Jews should be treated, one of the country's two chief rabbis declared that it is incumbent upon Jews to kill them on the spot<\/a>. “If someone comes to kill you, you kill him first," Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef said on March 12, telling Israeli soldiers to ignore legal and moral obligations to apprehend attackers with the minimum force necessary, whether these instructions come from "the High Court of Justice, or that some chief of staff" of the Israel Defense Forces.<\/p>\n

In the same speech, Yosef renewed a biblical call to commit genocide of all "Amalekites." The Torah records the existence of a people called the Amalekites, though they have no known living descendants in the modern era. Nevertheless, this designation is routinely trotted out by right-wing rabbis to call for massacres of Israel's enemies du jour.<\/p>\n

"If some terrorist comes to me now, and I know he's a terrorist, and we caught him. He doesn't have a knife in his hand, he doesn't have anything. And I know, Elijah the Prophet will come to me and tell me that he's from Amalek. Is it permitted to kill him on Shabbat? No. But Elijah the Prophet says that it's Amalek. Put him in prison, after Shabbat say a blessing and kill him," said Yosef.<\/p>\n

Later in the week, Yosef called on religious Jews to prevent their children<\/a> from socializing with children of secular families, even blood relatives.<\/p>\n

This is the third example.  Click through for the other four.  So why is the US contributing so much foreign aid to Israel and its genocidal agenda?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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