From Ofer Neiman, a short video of a mob in Jerusalem last night. I don’t know what occasioned this outburst (beyond the fact that such racism is the inevitable expression of fervent nationalism). From the Facebook description that accompanied the video:
Jerusalem, night between 24-25 Feb 2013. Young Israeli youth looking for the next lynch victim while chanting “A jew is a soul, an arab is a son of a whore”, scattered by police. 0:08-0:10 : “Did you hear what they did to the Arab guy? they screwed him with beatings”
I’d rather not know what happened before they started running from Zion Square towards this direction nor what would have happen if they hadn’t been stopped. — at ירושלים.
The most important aspect of a society in ethical breakdown such as Israel is that the process continues to iterate . They can’t say it stops here at the level of February 2013. It will continue to degenerate. There is no news broadcast than can turn things around. The seeds of this were planted a long time ago and Israel will reap the PR harvest.
A very interesting aspect of the whole mess is that US Judaism has not gone through 40 years of this process so US Jews. This means that it will become increasingly clear that US Jews don’t think like their Israeli cousins any more.
Phil, again the Israeli Jews have lynched an Arab, this time in Tel Aviv. About 20 teens left an Arab street cleaner hospitalized. See it here. Subject matter for a post?
This, in the streets, similar in custody. Zionism must be corrected from outside because it is poisoned from inside.
Judaism, in some guises, used to be rather poisoned as against gentiles (read, for instance, “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of my Hasidic Roots” by Deborah Feldman), and that could be understood — in whole or in part — as the reaction of a persecuted people, but this injection of the hatreds and despisals of a “bottom dog” into a people who have now — at least inside Israel and perhaps in Washington, DC — become “top dogs” is too much to bear willingly.
When I hear that the rabbis of Temple Beth Emmanue disagree, I will imagine that Americans are not in lockstep with their Israeli counterparts.
funny that assault, HB. investigators are looking into whether it was nationalistically motivated. huh. israeli jews assualting an israeli arab, and it was motivated by nationalism.