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Jews,
Arabs in uproar over rabbis’ controversial ruling
Friday December 10, 2010 07:23:04 AM,
ummid.com News Desk
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Malegaon: The Israeli and Arab uproar against a ruling by some 300
Jewish rabbis prohibiting the rental of homes to non-Jews, usually
Arabs living inside Israel, rose on Thursday, Arab News reported
December 10.
According to the Arab News Ramallah correspondent,
Noah Flug, chairman of the International Association of Holocaust
Survivors, said “these rabbis need to retract their statement.”
Fifty influential Jewish rabbinic leaders on Tuesday released a
controversial Halachic (traditional compendium of Jewish Law)
ruling forbidding Jews from selling or renting homes to gentiles
in predominantly Jewish areas in Israel.
The Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot said that an additional 220
rabbis serving almost all Israeli cities also signed the ruling.
The 50 rabbis receive a state salary and are responsible for
religious and ritual affairs in several cities, towns and rural
regional councils across the country.
Flug says he was shocked by this revelation. “As someone who
suffered as a Jew and underwent the Holocaust, I remember the
German Nazis throwing Jews out of their apartments and city
centers in order to create ghettos,” he told Yediot Ahronot.
“I remember how they wrote on benches that no Jews were allowed,
and of course it was prohibited to sell or rent to Jews. We
thought that in our country this wouldn’t happen. This is
especially difficult for someone who went through the Holocaust.”
For its part, a group of public Israeli figures, intellectuals and
academics have asked Justice Ministry to suspend any signatories
to the ruling.
The group of signatories, which includes professors Yaron Ezrahi,
Chaim Gans and Joseph Agassi, playwright Joshua Sobol and authors
Sefi Rachlevsky and Yoram Kaniuk, approached Israeli Attorney
General Yehuda Weinstein several weeks ago about taking action
against Safed Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu for issuing the same type
of call.
Israeli President Shimon Peres issued a strongly worded statement
against the rabbis.
Peres said that the rabbis were generating a moral crisis that ran
counter to the essence of a Jewish and democratic state, and were
thereby doing great harm to the state of Israel.
Ahmed Tibi, Knesset member from United Arab List party, said: “I
am confident that the number of (such) rabbis will only increase.
We are dealing with skinhead rabbis who are working against the
Arabs.”
The Jewish-Arab rights group Ta’ayush also slammed the ruling
saying, “We will not stand silent in the face of such racism!“
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