My shiksa friend sees the crisis

Haaretz:

Dozens of top Israeli rabbis sign ruling to forbid rental of homes to Arabs

An academic friend, who will only identity as “your shiksa friend”:

If Jewish and American rabbis don’t come out strongly against this what are us goyim to conclude?

This is not just one nutjob, it is DOZENS of TOP rabbis. And it is not like this rabbis’ letter has occurred in response to a proximal threat – almost no Jews have been harmed by Palestinians for YEARS now (yet many thousands of Palestinians have been harmed (or killed) by Jews). In fact the restraint of Palestinians in recent years is astonishing: they have remained nonviolent  in the face of ever-accelerating theft of land, house demolitions, imprisonment of nonviolent peace activists, etc. This nonviolence cannot last. Are these rabbis trying to force a violent reaction? 

It is true that we do not have a perfect society here either, that we have crazy Christians who espouse hateful views, and that we are about to give major tax benefits to the rich while many people remain in dire poverty, including lots of people living just a few miles from me. But this kind of systematic institutional racism in Israel seems to be simply beyond anything decent people would or should tolerate anywhere. Why aren’t more American and Israeli Jews speaking out against this?

 

OK these are all rhetorical questions, you do not have to answer. But I am finding it harder and harder to play nice with Israelis, and I am seriously considering full BDS including academic boycott. (What other options are there?)

Later my friend passed along the following email she received showing that the racism is not going unanswered in Israel. Original spelling preserved for purposes of entertainment: