Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has condemned pro-Palestinian activists for comparing Israel to apartheid South Africa, saying the description was a “grave insult” to black South Africans and a “tragic obstacle to peace”.
Writing in the New Statesman about the annual “Israel Apartheid Week” student campaign, he recalled his own first-hand experience of apartheid growing up in Cape Town in the 1960s.
He cited the legal segregation and racial hierarchy of apartheid, with black South Africans being “denied the vote…required by law to live, work, study…even go to the lavatory separately”. In stark contrast “Israel [is] a country whose Arab, Druze, Bedouin, Ethiopian, Russian, Baha’i, Armenian and other citizens have equal status under the law”.
Calling Israel an apartheid state was a “slur” that “provides fuel for those who seek to polarise and it obstructs those who seek peace”, he said.
Rather than attack Israel, activists should host a week dedicated to a Palestinian “awareness” week, “which might focus on the well-being of the Palestinian people”.
Rabbi Mirvis said he was meeting former South African leader F W de Klerk — the man who freed Nelson Mandela — in London this week. They were due to attend a charity event raising money for underprivileged children in Israel.
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JUDAISM IS A GUTTER RELIGION AND JUDAISTS ARE A GUTTER PEOPLE—AND THAT IS A PROVEN FACT.
Abraham was a pimp. Sarah was a prostitute. Lot’s son open-bordered his own father.
Moses was a mass murderer.
“King” David’s son was a rapist who raped his own sister. See: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Samuel+13&version=KJV
When Judaists promote the alien invasion, they say insane things like “we were once strangers in a strange land”, so we must support “strangers”, i.e. 3rd world immigration.
By that same logic, they should say “we children of Israel were once pimps in John’s land” so we Judaists must import more pimps. Or they must say: “we children of Israel were once whores in a John’s land”, so we Judaists must import more whores. Or they must say: “we children of Israel were once rapists in a far-off land”, so we Judaists must import more rapists.
Judaism is a gutter religion. It came out of a gutter, its “holy” book, the OT, is a gutter book with gutter stories of gutter “heroes”, it wallows in the gutter, and its adherents, the Judaists, are gutter people behaving in a gutter manner.
And that is a fact—not a slur.
ERROR CORRECTION:
Sorry about the error in the above comment. I meant to say that Noah’s (not Lot’s) son open bordered his own father. Maybe I was thinking about Lot as Lot’s daughters open bordered their father too.
Judaism–Gutter religion of gutter people.
JUDAISM IS A GUTTER RELIGION AND JUDAISTS ARE A GUTTER PEOPLE—AND THAT IS A PROVEN FACT.
Abraham was a pimp. Sarah was a prostitute. Lot’s son open-bordered his own father.
Moses was a mass murderer.
“King” David’s son was a rapist who raped his own sister. See:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Samuel+13&version=KJV
When Judaists promote the alien invasion, they say insane things like “we were once strangers in a strange land”, so we must support “strangers”, i.e. 3rd world immigration.
By that same logic, they should say “we children of Israel were once pimps in John’s land” so we Judaists must import more pimps. Or they must say: “we children of Israel were once whores in a John’s land”, so we Judaists must import more whores. Or they must say: “we children of Israel were once rapists in a far-off land”, so we Judaists must import more rapists.
Judaism is a gutter religion. It came out of a gutter, its “holy” book, the OT, is a gutter book with gutter stories of gutter “heroes”, it wallows in the gutter, and its adherents, the Judaists, are gutter people behaving in a gutter manner.
And that is a fact—not a slur.
ERROR CORRECTION:
Sorry about the error in the above comment. I meant to say that Noah’s (not Lot’s) son open bordered his own father. Maybe I was thinking about Lot as Lot’s daughters open bordered their father too.
Judaism–Gutter religion of gutter people.