Comments on: Racism, real estate and Jewish traitors

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:43:05 +0000

@Joel -There were times in the US when a non-Jew would never move to an area where Jews predominated.There was a time in the US when there were restrictive covenants that prevented people from selling their homes to Jews. My parents told me how they were unable to buy the home they wanted because the owner would not sell to those who he deemed the killer of Christ.

Fortunately those days are over. Today we seem some of the same feelings about Arabs in Israel. WIll they ever end in Israel? One can only hope.

Once many people in the US had the same opinion of Jews as you seem to do of Arabs. I

By: Lisa Goldman

Lisa Goldman — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 15:36:56 +0000

@Joel – Actually a Palestinian friend of mine wanted to rent a place near me while she was doing graduate work at Tel Aviv University, but the landlord refused to rent to Arabs. You can ask her about that: Her name is Ibtisam Mara’ana.

http://www.ibtisamfilms.com/

Later I moved to a building in Jaffa where my neighbours were Palestinians. I write about that here: http://972mag.com/jaffa-habibti-our-relationship-is-complicated/9881/

By: Joel

Joel — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 15:19:58 +0000

@Lisa

Many Arabs living on Karl Netter Street?

By: Lisa Goldman

Lisa Goldman — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 15:15:39 +0000

I did rent an apartment from a Haredi. He lived in Bnei Brak and the apartment was on Karl Netter Street in Tel Aviv. We had a slight dispute over his desire to insert a clause in the contract that would forbid me from having premarital sex in the apartment, but in the end the real estate agent convinced him that the clause wasn’t legal and he should be happy to have a nice Jewish girl who paid the rent on time. And so it was.

By: joel

joel — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 06:49:44 +0000

@ Aristeides.

You are right. My question should have been,”Would you rent a flat from a haredi?”

Either way I frame the question the honest answer from Neve or Lisa is the same.
Silence.

By: aristeides

aristeides — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 00:09:27 +0000

Joel’s question should be – “Would you rent a flat from a haredi?”

By: Rorr

Rorr — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 22:34:10 +0000

A Jewish traitor would be a guy who calls for the destruction of Israel and the death and dispersion of the Jewiish population, while simultaneously taking money from said state. And that would be Neve Gordon.

By: max

max — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 20:07:55 +0000

Isn’t the bottom line the fact that people rented the flat despite it being offered by an Arab?
Doesn’t it strongly indicate that they were worried about the neighborhood – or any other similar connotation – rather than the ethnicity?
So it comes down to the impression that Jews have of Arab homes, not the people.
Is this racism? Could be, but only if we can compare to other social segments, otherwise it’s merely anecdotal.

By: Joel

Joel — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 19:52:48 +0000

Okay. Look up the definition of “hypocrite”.

By: Philos

Philos — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 19:20:29 +0000

@ Joel, look up the definition of “non sequitur”