Lauding the Holocaust or questioning its purported scale is punishable in Israel by up to five years in prison.
Lauding the Holocaust or questioning its purported scale is punishable in Israel by up to five years in prison.
Hmmm...sort of like King Rat, by Clavell?
Hmmm...sort of like King Rat, by Clavell?
>By addressing the protesters as "Ashkenazim," Zarka cast the political dispute as an ethnic one, by drawing an aggressive distinction between Israel's Ashkenazi Jews -- those of European descent -- from the Mizrahim, whose lineage is Middle Eastern.
"The vast majority of the country’s founding left-wing elite was Ashkenazi...and enacted discriminatory policies that disadvantaged Mizrahim, particularly in the country's early decades," explains the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. "Correspondingly, Mizrahi voters have long formed a key part of the right-wing Likud’s base, while the core of the country’s shrinking left has historically been Ashkenazi." Mizrahim comprise about half of Israel's Jews. That was more to Zarka's vitriol. “Leftists are traitors, you are the cancer of the country,” he said. “The black flags [symbols adopted by judicial-reform protesters] are your shrouds. Your legs should be broken with batons, you should be kneecapped. That way you will not go to any demonstration at all."
Interesting...
>>By addressing the protesters as "Ashkenazim," Zarka cast the political dispute as **an ethnic one**, by drawing an aggressive distinction between Israel's Ashkenazi Jews -- those of European descent -- from the Mizrahim, whose lineage is Middle Eastern.
"The vast majority of the country’s founding left-wing elite was Ashkenazi...and enacted discriminatory policies that disadvantaged Mizrahim, particularly in the country's early decades," explains the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. "Correspondingly, Mizrahi voters have long formed a key part of the right-wing Likud’s base, while the core of the country’s shrinking left has historically been Ashkenazi." Mizrahim comprise about half of Israel's Jews.
That was more to Zarka's vitriol. “Leftists are traitors, you are the cancer of the country,” he said. “The black flags [symbols adopted by judicial-reform protesters] are your shrouds. Your legs should be broken with batons, you should be kneecapped. That way you will not go to any demonstration at all."
Interesting...
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