2 US Jewish groups condemn settler attack on mosque

Yesterday the Orthodox Union condemned an attack by Jewish colonists on a mosque near Nablus in the West Bank, and said it is "beyond the pale."  Yesterday, the ADL also condemned the vandalism. 

That Jewish extremists may have used such despicable methods to express political opposition is beyond the pale.  We join with Israel’s political, military and religious leadership in condemning this disgraceful assault. 

A good start. Don’t expect ADL to change its focus, though.

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  1. Its nearly certainly sincere, and consistent.

  2. One of Phil’s and others theses is that excesses by Israel encourage anti-semitism, partially by giving validity to their otherwise ludicrous associations.

    So, to see anti-semitism increasing (in forms that Phil agrees are anti-semitism) could also prove his point.

    When stated as partisan, that potentially relevant point gets lost as understood as an ideological weapon of war, rather than an insight to guide humane policy.

    I’m not sure why you supporters wish to corner him so, to only speak to the movement, rather than to the society.

    • Chaos4700 says:

      Seriously, Witty? Because you are “the society?”

      You so full of yourself, Witty. Among other things.

    • RE: “So, to see anti-semitism increasing (in forms that Phil agrees are anti-semitism) could also prove his point.” – Witty

      YouTube: “Michael Savage – Roman Polanski arrested in Switzerland” – Part 2/2 9:58

      A COUPLE OF COMMENTS:
      gracezchen35 (2 weeks ago) -1 Reply | Spam
      Polanski is typical jew scum.

      5kalad (2 months ago) +1 Reply | Spam
      Roman Polanski reminds me of those Nazis that fled Germany at the end of world war two to South America.
      DICKERSON3870 (14 minutes ago) 0 Reply | Remove
      Why is that? Because his mother and father were put in ‘concentration camps’ by the SS? Or is it because his mother died in a ‘concentration camp’? Or is it perhaps because Roman Polanski in his early teens slept in people’s barns so as to not be found by the SS and sent by them to a ‘concentration camp’?

      P.S. I sent the above comment by gracezchen35 to the ADL.

      • FROM “El caso Polanski (revisitado)” [GOOGLE TRANSLATION]: … [Judge] Rittanband had granted permission for three months Polanski to travel to Europe to work in a film commission, and when the press published a photograph of him in the company of two women smoking a cigar during his visit to the Oktoberfest in Munich (the festival world’s largest beer), Polanski Rittenband felt had humiliated him to the media. A tabloid journalist tells how Rittenband confessed that ‘the picture changes everything’ and now have to lock him behind bars. Basically, what bothered him is that ‘dwarf that fu^^ing Jew’, as he liked to call Polanski according to different accounts, would have revealed to the press….
        SOURCE – link to elmundo.es

  3. potsherd says:

    Still no mention of this vandalism in the US MSM.

    Last week, the IDF expressed “concern” that settlers might engage in more violence to protest the supposed govt crackdown on building. Of course, this concern was not sufficient to inspire them to actually do anything to prevent or stop the vandalism, as their greatest fear is order-refusal and mutiny. Instead, they went raiding Palestinian villages and arresting “wanted” individuals and protest organizers.

    The only difference between the settlers and the IDF is the uniform.

  4. Just imagine if the situation were reversed, and Muslims had desecrated a Jewish synagogue…

    • Chaos4700 says:

      To be fair that did happen in 1948. Granted, by the time it was happening, Haganah and their ilk had already ethnically cleansed hundreds of Muslim and Christian villages and attacked no small quantity of mosques and churches in the process.

      Not justifying any attack on any holy site. But I think, childish as it sounds, the question of “who started it” does matter, as a matter of perspective.

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