MK Michael Ben-Ari rips up New Testament, throws it in trash

[Craig_Langford]

http://972mag.com/mk-michael-ben-ari-tears-up-new-testament-throws-it-in-trash/51196/

According to the Israeli website NRG, MK Michael Ben-Ari (National Union) tore the New Testament to pieces and then threw it in the trash after the Bible was sent to all 120 members of Knesset by a man named Victor Kalish, who according to NRG specializes in publishing Christian religious texts.

[kestrel91316]

1. I'm not offended by what Ben-Ari did. Kalish, OTOH...........

[Live and Learn]

2. That is fine.

I just wish the "Christians" in this country would quit referring to the Old Testament to justify their hatreds.

The majority of them may not rip up the New Testament but they certainly don't live by it.

[azurnoir]

3. actually there is already a thread about this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/113414191

[EgaLitE]

4. It was his right to do so.

Christians have no business telling Jews what to do. It's their country and they can do as they please (especially when it comes to misogynistic antisemitic texts like the "New Testament&quot

Free speech and freedom of action always trumps the feelings of intolerant Xtians

[Scurrilous]

5. U.S. Jewish groups condemn Knesset’s Michael Ben-Ari for destroying New Testament

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"Several U.S. Jewish groups condemned the public destruction of a copy of the New Testament by Israeli Knesset member Michael Ben-Ari.

Ben-Ari, a member of the National Union Party and reportedly a devotee of the late Meir Kahane, invited a legislative aide to photograph him ripping up a New Testament and throwing it in the garbage. Ben-Ari then had the photos sent to Israel's daily Maariv. The book reportedly was mailed to Ben-Ari and the Knesset's other members by a messianic Jewish group called the Bible Society in Israel.

The Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee issued statements condemning the action. In an interview with JTA, Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations called it an "outrageous" action that was "not acceptable."

The Jewish Federations of North America told JTA it had no comment on the incident.

The Knesset’s lone Christian parliamentarian, Hanna Sweid of the Hadash Party, told the Jerusalem Post, “This is hooliganism, bullying and an apocalyptic act of hatred that was baseless and unnecessary.”

http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/07/20/3101341/us-jewish-groups-condemn-knessets-michael-ben-ari-for-destroying-new-testament

[Scurrilous]

6. WATCH: MK Tibi tears picture of Meir Kahane over Knesset podium

http://972mag.com/watch-mk-tibi-tears-picture-of-meir-kahane-over-knesset-podium/51340/

(subbed version at link)

[shira]

7. Tibi and Ben Ari: Two extremist nuts. n/t