חסכנות גנטית: גם מפר איסור פרסום, גם מפיץ פייק ניוז, גם מכאיב למשפחה וגם מנסה לעשות הון פוליטי על הדם. הכל בעלות של ציוץ אחד! pic.twitter.com/XzxNM62gPS
— Ben Caspit בן כספית (@BenCaspit) February 9, 2019
UPDATE: Aftet this post was published, Haaretz reported the the victim’s body was discovered naked and she had been sexually assaulted. In many years of such tragedies, this is the first time i know of that sexual violence has been involved in such a crime.
Earlier this week, a young Israeli woman serving her year of national service in Jerusalem, was stabbed to death. Earlier today, Israeli police announced they’d arrested a Palestinian suspect in her murder. This crime was yet another in a long line of violence and counter-violence by Israelis and Palestinians.
In an Israeli context, whenever such a brutal murder occurs, there are bloodthirsty cries by the Israeli far-right (which dominates the political scene) for vengeance. When such murders are committed either by Israeli security forces or settlers, there are barely murmurs from Israeli authorities (aside from pro forma faux distress, which means little).
This case too has not disappointed. Bibi Netanyahu’s son, Yair, posted to Facebook the false claim that the victim, Ori Ansbacher, was raped and decapitated. No media outlet and no police source has raised such an allegation. That hasn’t stopped Israel’s version of a cross between Breitbart News and 4chan, Rotter, from amplifying the claim.
Netanyahu’s son’s diatribe, dripping with hatred for Palestinians (whom he calls “Arabs”) is quite reminiscent of racialism and sexual purity themes espoused by German Nazis:
A pure Jewess, age 19, brutally raped and murdered at the hands of the Arab enemy. She was decapitated. May Ori’s memory be a blessing.
Of course, all the media remain silent and yawns. This isn’t a “price tag” [attack] with graffiti on an Arab’s wall. Just a Jewess, even worse, a settler. Not interesting.
His characterization of the victim as racially pure echoes similar claims by the Nazis that Aryan women were the purest of the pure; the bearers of the future master race. Anyone who sullies the reputation of such a woman insults not only her womanhood, but the entire Aryan race. There is also little difference here between Netanyahu’s screed and the rantings of American white supremacists.
This was the same Yair Netanyahu who demanded that the son of a wealthy Israeli whose father benefitted from Netanyahu’s decisions, pay for their joint night out at a Tel Aviv strip club (no indication if the strippers were pure-blood Jewesses). Netanyahu fils also works for one of the sleazier lawfare NGOs, Shurat HaDin, founded in collaboration of the Mossad.
To be clear, this was, as described in Israeli media, a brutal murder. While Ansbacher lived in the settlement of Tekoa, she was not a soldier and not a member of the security forces. She was, in short, yet another victim of the endless hatred between Israeli Jews and Palestinians.
But before I permit the Israeli apologists among us (and in the comment thread) to get into high dudgeon, let’s not forget the 200 Gazans murdered in cold blood by IDF snipers over the past six months. Let’s not forget the two children similarly murdered yesterday in Great March of Return protests. If we wait for Yair Netanyahu and his Israeli Brown Shirts to shed a tear for them, we’ll be waiting at least until the messiah comes, if not longer.
[Comment deleted: anyone publishing lies and incitement to hate and violence will be summarily dispatched to my personal Comment Gehinmom. With extreme prejudice. Banned.]
We should neither trivialize nor sensationalize this horrible crime.
That said, Ynetnews, reported that Ms Anspacher was stabbed and mutilated.
Let’s move on.
https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5460449,00.html
Interested to hear more about Shurat Hadin. Heard a bit about them but didn’t know Yair was involved…
What IS a ‘pure Jewess’? Pure as in virginal? As in ‘of pure blood’ (like his mom)? As in ‘not mixing with non-Jews’?
This is what men do. It happens all over the world. In the Netherlands there was a famous case of a 16 year old girl found raped, her throat slit, in a meadow in the countryside. For 12 years the murder remained unsolved, and her father campaigned against asylum seekers. (There was a refugee center not far away, and her name became a rallying cry for xenophobia: The perpetrator must have been a Muslim/Arab or something, as “Dutch men do not slit people’s throats.”) A large-scale DNA survey of all the men in the region finally solved the crime. The killer was a Dutch farmer, a married family-man, father of two children, living less than 2 kilometers from the scene of the crime. If the killer had been an asylum seeker or a Palestinian that would have meant nothing. Just as in this case the nationality of the killer means nothing. They are men. That is all. If I sound bitter, that is because I am so sick of hearing about men’s violence. (Justin Fairfax, raping priests, you name it.)
[comment deleted: Islamophobia, even implicit as yours was, is not permitted here]
As far as I know, there was one more case in which a Palestinian raped his Jewish victim:
In May 12th 2012, a 21 years old Palestinian attacked a young couple in the “Gan Ha-Ir” (City Garden) parking complex in Tel Aviv. For almost two hours and under knife threats he forced to young couple to have intercourse and then raped the young woman (a high school senior at the time) himself while threatening the young man with the knife.
The young woman has been acknowledged as a terror attack victim in 2015.
You can read more in the following Articles:
https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/law/1.2055869 (Hebrew)
https://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1001085589 (Hebrew)
https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4734470,00.html (English)
@ Bigelow: I know about that case. I’m not sure that case was a case of terrorism or a terrible sex crime (or both).
Elisabeth, In this case the guy was Muslim and and supporter of Hamas (Islamic resistance movment), not a Dutch farmer nor a Jewish one. The girl was Jewish, These are facts .
@ Yaron: I’ve posted a number of posts here about rapes by Israelis of Palestinians and abominable sexual mutilation committed by Israelis against Palestinians. So believe me you have no monopoly on such outrage. Somehow I haven’t heard you express any of that regarding the Israeli crimes. Why would that be?
Translation comment – “כולה” from “כולה יהודיה” does not mean “Pure”. It is a slang term meaning “Merely”. He is claiming that the media is silent because the victim was merely a jew (and not a palestinian – as in the graffiti price tag comparrison).
@Emil: The phrase yehudiah tehora means exactly what i translated, “pure Jewess.”
You are right. The word you mentioned was mistranslated and now corrected.
Exactly what I wrote to you. But you did not publish my comment. I am not insulted but just reenforced in my opinion that you lack humility to the extreme.
@ benjamin: I’m not going to get into a pissing contest over Hebrew translation. You and another commenter noted a word that was mistranslated. In a reply to the other commenter, I noted he (and by inference, you) was correct and that I had corrected the translation:
What else do you want, blood??
Yaron, with men raping and murdering women, nationality is not relevant. Unless, of course, you can prove that certain men (Jews for instance) do not do this. You ‘facts’ mean zilch. The Palestinian reaction is also that this guy is just a rapist, attacking a girl who was reading a book in a forest. He would like to pose as a hero but they are having none of it.
Eliazabeth: In the Israeli news he is quoted as wanting to be a ‘shahid’ and kill a Jew. So I guess he got his cake and ate it too.
As far as the PA appointing a lawyer for him since there was rape involved they are not doing so and distancing themselves from the incident
There were stated as saying that in prison the other prisoners will take care of him.
Check the news, it is in several places.
I read that benjamin, that is why I wrote what I wrote.