16 thoughts on “Israeli Rabbis Urge Refusal to Rent to Arabs, Echoing Nuremberg Laws – Tikun Olam תיקון עולם إصلاح العالم
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  1. When I read that my city’s Rabbi signed the “petition” the first thing I wanted to do was print the Nürnberg Laws and hang them outside his residence.

    What the hell is going on in this country?

      1. Maybe I’ll do that myself. I just need to get a hold of his address. The point will probably completely fly over the rabbis’ heads and they’ll think it was done by Arabs…

  2. im sorry, but as much as i disagree with the edict (which seems to have little to do with the certain halachic edits regarding whether a jew can sell land in israel to a non jew), to compare the edict with the nuremberg laws is absurd and disgusting.

    if you wish to compare it to anything, compare it to municipal laws found throughout the states from its founding up unto the early 20th century that banned sales of land to jews, italians, blacks, asians and other ethnic minorities.

    1. to compare the edict with the nuremberg laws is absurd and disgusting.

      No, I was actually thinking along the lines that YOU are absurd & disgusting. But if I gored yr ox nothing could make me happier.

      BTW, we did away with discriminatory property covenants around 40 yrs. ago. And Israel loony rabbis want to start using them. What does that tell you?

    2. Whilst I can often find some justification for many Israeli policies that find harsh criticism on this blog, I have to agree with Richard on this one that the similarity to the Nuremberg laws is striking and shameful.

      There is NOTHING that can defend these “rabbis” and the relative silence of other rabbis who were not signatories to the letter.

      This is indeed a sad day for Israel, and the only small comforts I can muster up are the fact that these are not elected representatives and only speak in their own name, and the additional fact that some Palestinians also have proclaimed a death sentence on any Palestinian who sells land or housing to Jewish settlers.

      1. The thing is, as long as these rabbis continue to be state employees and the state doesn’t roundly denounce their bigotry, they speak for the state.
        If Catholic bishops called on their sheeple not to rent to Jews, and their superiors in the church would just sit on their hands, would you also say the bishops only spoke in their own name?

      2. # Shmuel)
        ” . . . that some Palestinians also have proclaimed a death sentence on any Palestinians who sells land or housing to Jewish settlers”

        Why did you have to make that final very dubious comparison. Your commentary started out very well, and then as always you have to make some nonsense counterpoint.

        You just can’t compare the two things. In case you forgot: the Palestinians are the NATIVE people of this land and you can’t change that whatever you do. They have the right to live wherever they want in historical Palestine. You’re supposed to be a man of law and you have the guts to compare Palestinians on their own land with Settlers in the West Bank. Those Palestinians prevented from renting a house by the “Taliban-Rabbis’ Fatwa” are Israeli citizens, and not illegal settlers.
        Why didn’t you do the “Jews-Can’t-Buy-Land-In-Jordan”-trick. It’s all the same.
        Behind your ‘moderate’ commentaries, I guess we just have another propagandist in disguise, haven’t we ?
        Shabbat shalom

        1. @Deir Yassin:
          I’m not disguised as anything – you can read everything I’ve written on this blog and think whatever you think, but I simply write what I feel without ulterior motives to defend or attack any side, and don’t think all of the right is on one side, and yes, sometimes even write provocatively to force arguements to extremes.

          If what you say ” Palestinians are the NATIVE people of this land and you can’t change that whatever you do. They have the right to live wherever they want in historical Palestine” then that of course includes Palestinian Jews, some of them who trace their ancestry back to hundreds of years in Palestine. But then what do we do with Palestinians who immigrated to Palestine only, let’s say, 80 years ago? Have they the right to own property? Where’s the cut-off point in time?
          Is the right to buy property or to live in an area anywhere in the world a function only of having lived there for “x” years or belonging to the “right” race? I don’t think so.

          1. You have the chutzpah to compare the legal rights of Palestinians, citizens of the State of Israel, with illegal Jewish settlers on the 22% of Palestine that – theoretically – still belongs to Palestinians.
            Concerning you last two lines, that’s fine with me. In fact, I’m an ‘internationalist’ and don’t really believe in borders. If you’re running for President and eventually win the elections, that’ll be a great day for the Palestinian diaspora. If I understand you rightly, they’ll all be allowed to return home.

      3. Thanks for agreeing w. me. But these rabbis actually are state representative & so in a sense speak for the State, & certainly for their own Orthodox constituency.

        The Palestinian land sale issue is off topic & a red herring. Stay on topic. Not to mention that it is complicated by the fact that most land sales by Palestinians to Jews are fraudulent since the settlers & their agents engage in forgery, subterfuge & other devious tactics to gain title to the land as I’ve documented here in several cases.

  3. I call everyone’s attention to Roger Cohen’s op-ed piece in today’s NYT. It doesn’t touch specifically on this subject, but it is one of his better and more important writings on contemporary Zionist Israel and how diaspora Jews relate to it.

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