Comments on: African couple hospitalized after apparent arson attack

By: paul ostroff

paul ostroff — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 22:22:40 +0000

No matter whether we are just annoyed by or horrified by the bigotry shown by our own people against others not of our colour or creed-we at least know it to be seriously wrong.To wish it for ourselves we must first show it to others whether we believe strongly or slightly it to be seriously wrong.If we believe this to be so then we must do all in our power to correct this misdeed.God is there to judge us for our wrongs.

By: franc black

franc black — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 17:59:25 +0000

What has Isreal become? An apartheid state run by European settlers, operating mainly as military base for Western energy interests in the Middle East?

Oy vey !

By: Chepsky

Chepsky — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:08:36 +0000

This Stinks to High Heaven:
Why are Russian immigrants, many not even Jewish, not treated with such disdain? Does their white skin seem less offensive to Polish, Ukranian or Tunisian Jews?

What do you get when Jews are devoid of Jewish Principles??? Children of the Golden Calf.
That’s one story from the Bible you don’t hear about in a Zionist camp fire song.

Every time the word “Nigger” or “Slant Eyed Yellow skin” or “Cancer, Infiltrators” is uttered by, of all people, a Jew then the Holocaust is cheapened. Every pogrom, murder, lie, every train load, is cheapened because the Holocaust becomes nothing more than a tedious bedtime story of self pity.

What is left is not a Country but an ethnically “pure” Ghetto. And if Jews throughout the world think that is a good thing then maybe they should look over their shoulders and perhaps expect the same level of mercy and compassion Israelis have meted out to “Niggers” whether Palestinian or African.

By: Mitchell Cohen

Mitchell Cohen — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:50:35 +0000

I hope the perpetrators are caught and punished to the fullest extent of the law. No matter what one’s views are, there is no excuse for these heinous crimes against migrants, just like there is no excuse for “price tag” attacks.

By: Rafael

Rafael — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:17:21 +0000

Naked terrorism.

By: AYLA

AYLA — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:08:44 +0000

no, there are no words. But I have to thank you so much for this moving response, Dahlia. If only everyone, everywhere, were putting themselves in other people’s shoes–really imagining other people’s experiences, as you are–we would live in a much different world. Pieces such as this one move us closer to that world. So thank you.
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Five years ago, I was very involved with the Eritrean refugee here in Israel; the culture is very gentle, soft-spoken, respectful to elders, people of authority, and guests. Whenever I visited people in their homes, they cooked for me even though I knew they were working (with work permits–this was back when it was possible for a select few to get them) 16 hour days for the lowest wages. Once, when I was with someone who had become, and has remained, a true friend, I got myself a slice of pizza. He wouldn’t allow me to get one for him. From that point forward, every time I visited his apartment (after insisting that he did not have to meet me at the bus station, paying for his own tickets, to escort me), he had pizza for me. I tried to convince him that I liked whatever they cooked, but he insisted that I liked pizza. A slice of pizza cost him at least one hour of work, maybe more.
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Was Israel supposed to protect the Jewish People and Judaism? Was it? Because this is what a Jewish State is doing to us. And no, Golda Meir, this has absolutely nothing to do with our being put in a reactive position by anyone else. In fact, we put ourselves in this position by not having refugee policy for anyone but Jews, unlike any other “democracy” as far as I know, as well as by allowing the government to use the refugee situation as a deterrent, as Dahlia pointed out. From living here, I’ve learned that it’s usually easier for Israelis and Israel supporters to respond to injustice here when it isn’t about Palestinians because all things Palestinian are linked in most minds to security, or even existence. Until the government spun the African refugees into a threat, even the right wing papers here could take serious offense to crimes much smaller than this one (i.e. people not renting apartments to Africans). But now the government has danced, and the people have followed. If Jews don’t rise up in response to this madness, we don’t deserve a State. Since it’s likely that those committing these sick crimes in Jerusalem might care, I’ll add that the Torah supports my assessment.