"When all the government officials and law enforcement agencies are mobilized in the fight against those who are blabbering 'price tag' against Arabs, and are searching with candles for how to stop the right-wing anarchists, you are not paying attention to the racist and anti-Semitic incitement being carried out against Haredim throughout the country," MK Israel Eichler wrote today (Wednesday) to Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein. The letter was also addressed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Bogy Ya'alon, and Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitz.
In his letter, Eichler demands that this incitement be treated with the same severity as they treat right-wing anarchists.
"Those who incite against the Haredi do not write the words "price tag" on unknown walls, but incite the masses against the Haredi with overt means and through the mouths of overt and even official spokespeople. This is done through official media outlets and social networks under open names. Instead of looking for a needle in Yitzhar's haystack, one can easily reach the perpetrators of crimes against the Haredi, under the spotlight of the media.".
In his letter, Eichler presents four fresh examples out of dozens that are not reported:
1. The Chief Rabbis were attacked at a ceremony on Mount Herzl on Memorial Day, and there was no sound, no attention. Can you imagine such an attack on the President of the Supreme Court, which would have passed quietly? Someone would have managed to come and spit on the Prime Minister and his ministers, and the Supreme Court judges, without being repelled by the security guards. In this case, the security guards were asked by the Chief Rabbi's assistants to protect him, and they replied: Because they are security guards, not police!
I have no doubt that in the raging social process, those who do not know how to protect the country's chief rabbis will not be able to protect the country's judges and ministers, its prime ministers, and its myriad officials and rulers. What is happening on the streets of Kiev, Odessa, Cairo and Syria, Libya and Tunisia, Iraq and Pakistan, teach us that anarchy begins with incitement and the imposition of a "price tag" against hated minorities such as Arabs and Haredim, and extends all the way to the country's rulers.
2. Haifa Municipality spokesman Ido Minkowski wrote: "Recently, unwanted immigrants from Bnei Brak and Jerusalem arrived in my city. Not exactly lovers of Zion and Zionism, nor people of freedom and peace." It's good that Haifa's Arabs are not "foreign immigrants" and are "lovers of Zion" and peace.
3. In Or Yehuda, on Independence Day night, students of the "Birkat Yitzhak" yeshiva were attacked by street youths with words oozing with love of Zion: "Get out of our country, it's a shame Hitler didn't finish you off, may your name be erased." According to the students' testimony, they were passing through a public garden on their way to a nearby grocery store when they were attacked with insulting chants. The frightened boys chose to leave the place without responding, just before a fight broke out, and hurried back to the yeshiva. Several religious girls sitting in the garden were also attacked by these boys.
4. On the program "Independence at Night" on the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation, animal lovers celebrating "Israel Independence" said:
""For me, I would really eat human flesh, human flesh, with pleasure because animals are not meant to be harmed," said the panelist, adding another disgusting sentence, "Let's thin out the population, that would be great.".
The presenter asked the inciting panelist to elaborate: "Who, for example? Because it's a terribly problematic combination, it has to be someone you want to kill and you don't like and someone who doesn't put you off eating?" And his answer was: "I would like to thin out the Haredi population. That's exactly the paradox because the people whose population I would most like to thin out are the Haredi, but they probably have the most disgusting taste, it must be terribly rancid.".
""Because it's kosher," another presenter stated. "Kosher is the most disgusting, kosher restaurants are disgusting restaurants," replied the panelist who wants to dilute the Haredi public. After a few minutes during which songs were played, the presenter turned to the listeners and tried to clarify: "On behalf of the Independents at Night system, as if what we said earlier about Haredi eating, we didn't really mean, a. Not kosher. b. Not practical. c. Really, it's all in humor." And someone added: "They're not human either.".
My question is, will you exercise your authority as the legal advisor to sue for "slandering the public," even if it concerns an ultra-Orthodox public? As you know, only the legal advisor can sue for slander, and the ultra-Orthodox is not entitled to sue for his honor as an individual, if his personal name was not mentioned.
Is it permissible to invoke the laws against incitement to racism, when it is not about racism against Arabs and Africans, but also against racism against someone who was born to a Jewish mother and was born in Israel and belongs to the ultra-Orthodox sector?""
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