Topic: Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel compare other Jews to Nazis
cccuuunnttt !CaTLdYmooc started this discussion 15 years ago #15,865
Here's an idea for Occupy Wall Street, dress your kids up as concentration camp prisoners...http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2012/01/ultra-orthodox-jews-israel-compare-other-jews-nazis/46832/ (I cut out a few words)
On Saturday, members of Israel's community of ultra-Orthodox Jews protested against secular Israelis by comparing them to Nazis -- a move which got the latter (predictably) riled up.
Ultra-Orthodox Jews organized the attention-getting protests in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood on Saturday over "growing incitement against their community" in Israel -- incitement against efforts by some of them to not-so-subtly impose their strict religious mores on the rest of Israeli society that isn't as religious. Examples of that imposition include the incident of an 8-year-old Israeli schoolgirl being spit at for her supposedly immodest dress and others where female Israeli soldiers were ordered to sit at the backs of buses by strictly religious Jews.
But on Saturday, the ultra-Orthodox protesters took a different PR tact in the escalating tensions between them and other Israelis by offering AP and Reuter photographers the opportunity to grab incendiary pictures of Jewish boys dressed up in striped concentration camp uniforms emblazoned with "Jude" yellow stars and a handcuffed boy meant to imitate a famous photograph from a Warsaw ghetto.
The firebrand Nazi comparisons understandably upset less religious Jews in Israeli. "We must leave the Holocaust and its symbols outside the arguments in Israeli society," Moshe Zanbar, head of a Holocaust survivors' group, told the AP. But getting the attention of the likes of Zanbar and other secular Israeli was the entire point of the protest.
Ultra-Orthodox Jews organized the attention-getting protests in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood on Saturday over "growing incitement against their community" in Israel -- incitement against efforts by some of them to not-so-subtly impose their strict religious mores on the rest of Israeli society that isn't as religious. Examples of that imposition include the incident of an 8-year-old Israeli schoolgirl being spit at for her supposedly immodest dress and others where female Israeli soldiers were ordered to sit at the backs of buses by strictly religious Jews.
But on Saturday, the ultra-Orthodox protesters took a different PR tact in the escalating tensions between them and other Israelis by offering AP and Reuter photographers the opportunity to grab incendiary pictures of Jewish boys dressed up in striped concentration camp uniforms emblazoned with "Jude" yellow stars and a handcuffed boy meant to imitate a famous photograph from a Warsaw ghetto.
The firebrand Nazi comparisons understandably upset less religious Jews in Israeli. "We must leave the Holocaust and its symbols outside the arguments in Israeli society," Moshe Zanbar, head of a Holocaust survivors' group, told the AP. But getting the attention of the likes of Zanbar and other secular Israeli was the entire point of the protest.
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Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 30 seconds later[^] [v] #275,963
tl;dr
cccuuunnttt !CaTLdYmooc (OP) replied with this 15 years ago, 1 minute later, 2 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #275,964
Nexus !jNexusRe/. joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 1 minute later, 4 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #275,966
Do they have that authentic Zyklon B smell?
squeegee !hbZVTk6JYc joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 4 seconds later, 4 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #275,967
sounds reasonableAnonymous E joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 51 seconds later, 5 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #275,968
@275,963 (B)
TL;DR: some Jew fundies are pissing off other, les fundie Jews by dressing up as concentration cano prisoners.
TL;DR: some Jew fundies are pissing off other, les fundie Jews by dressing up as concentration cano prisoners.
Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 1 day later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #276,530
You mean to tell me religious Jews can play the Holocaust card just as effectively as the secular ones? How can this be?