Thanks to the Palestine Note for posting the above video. It is an interview from Israeli television with Rabbi Dov Wolpe, the head of "The Task Force to Save the Nation and the Land" an organization which gives money to Israeli soldiers to refuse orders to evacuate settlers from the occupied territories.
The Forward recently did an expose on Wolpe and his work, pointing out that he is raising tax deductible funds in the US, and may be breaking US law in the process. The Forward:
Wolpe presented the money to the two soldiers in an elaborate ceremony that took place at Jerusalem’s Finjan restaurant. At the time, Wolpe had told the press that the money was the gift of an anonymous American donor. Though the source of these particular funds is unclear, what is not in dispute — by even Wolpe himself — is that he has been misrepresenting the nature of his organization to the Internal Revenue Service, claiming that it is a religious institution when it is little more than a post office box, a ruse that allows him to maintain tax-exempt status.
Ironically, Wolpe might not be brought down because of the racism and hatred displayed in the interview above, but because he is registered as a "church" in the US and doesn’t meet the legal requirement. Sorta like getting Al Capone on tax evasion. It’s also interesting to note that the Rabbi’s "gift" for Obama at the end of the piece echoes the same language the Hebron Fund’s Executive Director Yossi Baumol used in defending their recent New York fundraiser.
(If the English subtitles on the video don’t start automatically click on the arrow in the lower right hand corner and choose ‘cc’ from the menu.)
