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Related: About this forumB’Tselem and Ta’ayush Have Made Me Ashamed to Be Israeli
Im actually shocked. I probably shouldnt be. I have long felt that some of the human rights organizations working in Israel are deeply misguided and biased. But I have to admit, I never expected to hear that these organizations were intentionally funding violent riots in which people are regularly injured and even killed. I never expected to hear that a group claiming to be defending human rights was actually an accessory to the murder of innocents. Even more disgusting is that these organizations are entirely unrepentant. Rather than disavowing the individuals involved, these organizations have defended them, and even stated their support for these acts.
Lets be honest. The organizations involved in this fiasco represent human rights about as much as Jews for Jesus represents Judaism. Indeed, they represent pretty much the exact opposite of human rights. By their actions, they are contributing to ethnic discrimination and bigotry, working against coexistence and peace, and doing violence to the human rights of both Israelis and Palestinians.
On the other hand, I have to give credit where credit is due. These leftists have finally succeeded in making me ashamed of something that happened in Israel. I am deeply ashamed that the Israeli police did not catch these criminals and lock them up years ago. I am ashamed that the pathetic Israeli mainstream press was completely unable (or unwilling) to do any real investigative journalism to uncover these crimes before now. And frankly, I am ashamed of the Israeli hard left that has completely lost any semblance of humanity.
To those of you on the left/liberal spectrum who still actually believe in human rights for all people (including Jews) and in peaceful coexistence, it is time to stop coddling these vicious thugs. I call upon you to rise up and vomit out this hateful poison from your midst. If you do not, then by your silence you are as much an accessory to murder as Ezra Nawi.
Lets be honest. The organizations involved in this fiasco represent human rights about as much as Jews for Jesus represents Judaism. Indeed, they represent pretty much the exact opposite of human rights. By their actions, they are contributing to ethnic discrimination and bigotry, working against coexistence and peace, and doing violence to the human rights of both Israelis and Palestinians.
On the other hand, I have to give credit where credit is due. These leftists have finally succeeded in making me ashamed of something that happened in Israel. I am deeply ashamed that the Israeli police did not catch these criminals and lock them up years ago. I am ashamed that the pathetic Israeli mainstream press was completely unable (or unwilling) to do any real investigative journalism to uncover these crimes before now. And frankly, I am ashamed of the Israeli hard left that has completely lost any semblance of humanity.
To those of you on the left/liberal spectrum who still actually believe in human rights for all people (including Jews) and in peaceful coexistence, it is time to stop coddling these vicious thugs. I call upon you to rise up and vomit out this hateful poison from your midst. If you do not, then by your silence you are as much an accessory to murder as Ezra Nawi.
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B’Tselem and Ta’ayush Have Made Me Ashamed to Be Israeli (Original Post)
shira
Jan 2016
OP
Uponthegears
(1,499 posts)1. If you do not abhor all violence, you abhor none.
Israeli
(4,151 posts)2. Adrienne Yaron still continues to consider herself Israeli ....
......is she planning to leave New York anytime soon ???
Here is what makes me ashamed to be Israeli shira .......
'Don't employ Arabs': Carwash in central Israel set alight
A carwash in Petah Tikva was set on fire and spray-painted with graffiti against the employment of Arabs. An investigation reveals it was a deliberate fire.
Raanan Ben Zur
Published: 01.19.16, 17:47 / Israel News
A carwash in Petah Tikva was set on fire on Monday, with the police suspecting that it was an arson attack provoked by the fact that the company employs Arabs.
The words "Jews don't employ Arabs" were found spray-painted on one of the walls of the carwash, referring to the firm's Jewish owner employing Arab staff.
Shortly before 10.30pm on Monday, the fire station in Petah Tikva received a report of a fire near a gas station on Jabotinsky Street. Teams of firefighters arrived at the scene and saw that the fire had broken out at the carwash.
The firefighters put out the blaze and managed to stop it spreading to other buildings nearby. The fire caused damage to the site and to the large brushes used to wash cars.
An investigation was opened following the fire. The suspicion of an arson attack was raised this morning as a result of the investigators' initial findings which showed that the graffiti had been spray-painted inside the car cleaning area prior to the fire.
Source : http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4755111,00.html
Here is what makes me ashamed to be Israeli shira .......
'Don't employ Arabs': Carwash in central Israel set alight
A carwash in Petah Tikva was set on fire and spray-painted with graffiti against the employment of Arabs. An investigation reveals it was a deliberate fire.
Raanan Ben Zur
Published: 01.19.16, 17:47 / Israel News
A carwash in Petah Tikva was set on fire on Monday, with the police suspecting that it was an arson attack provoked by the fact that the company employs Arabs.
The words "Jews don't employ Arabs" were found spray-painted on one of the walls of the carwash, referring to the firm's Jewish owner employing Arab staff.
Shortly before 10.30pm on Monday, the fire station in Petah Tikva received a report of a fire near a gas station on Jabotinsky Street. Teams of firefighters arrived at the scene and saw that the fire had broken out at the carwash.
The firefighters put out the blaze and managed to stop it spreading to other buildings nearby. The fire caused damage to the site and to the large brushes used to wash cars.
An investigation was opened following the fire. The suspicion of an arson attack was raised this morning as a result of the investigators' initial findings which showed that the graffiti had been spray-painted inside the car cleaning area prior to the fire.
Source : http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4755111,00.html