22 april 2011, Haaretz
Campaign by right-wing group Lehava aims to prevent intimate relationships between Jews and Arabs.
By Adi Dovrat-Meseritz
"Do you want your grandson to be named Ahmed ben Sarah?" a street poster slapped on the walls of Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods inquires, in a not-so-subtle dig at the Yesh retail chain.
The problem the authors of the broadside (pashkevil, in Hebrew ) have is that Yesh, the Haredi arm of the Super-Sol supermarket chain, allows Arab men to work alongside Jewish women.
The poster features the Yesh logo next to a photograph of two employees chatting - or as the poster puts it, "An Arab man courting a daughter of Israel at the Givat Shaul branch."
TheMarker has discovered that the organization behind the pashkevil is Lehava, a Hebrew acronym for "Preventing Assimilation in the Holy Land." (Don't confuse it with the Finance Ministry division called Lehava, which is devoted to narrowing digital gaps in Israeli society.
"One of the biggest problems today is that Jewish employees at retail chains are assimilating with Arab employees," said Bentzi Gupstein, one of the anti-assimilation group's leaders. "Just two weeks ago a Jewish woman working at a branch of Shefa Shuk in Jerusalem left a Haredi home and went to live with an Arab employee she'd met at the store."
"We are publicizing the problem to make people understand that there is a problem, and to encourage people to buy from places that hire Jewish labor. The posters influence the Haredi community," Gupstein added.
As part of its efforts to prevent any romantic ties between Jewish women and Arab men, Lehava launched riots in Safed and Afula, and demonstrations in Bat Yam and the south Tel Aviv neighborhood of Hatikva.
Super-Sol issued a statement saying the Yesh chain condemns all violent and harmful acts against any sector.
"We will continue to serve all sectors and communities, and are glad to employ thousands of people from all parts of society," the chain said.
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April 10, 2011 Independent Jewish Voices – Canada http://ijvcanada.org
“Israel’s friends tout it as the only democracy in the Middle East. But at a time when democracy is breaking out in countries all over the region, Israel’s Knesset (the country’s parliament) has mounted a legislative attack on the fundamental freedoms of its Arab citizens and Israeli Jews who support them,” declared Sid Shniad, spokesperson for Independent Jewish Voices Canada.
“If they are seriously committed to the fundamental principles of democracy, we expect organizations like the Canadian Jewish Congress, the Canada-Israel Committee and B’nai Brith to condemn these outrageous, anti-democratic laws,” Shniad explained.
“On March 23, the Knesset adopted two of these loathsome laws,” explained. “The first allows the state to annul the citizenship of anyone found guilty of ‘security offences’. It is widely acknowledged that this law is designed to be used against Palestinian Israelis who take action against the discrimination they are experiencing,” he stressed.
“The second law allows small Israeli communities to exclude ‘unsuitable’ persons from taking up residence. This is clearly directed at preventing Palestinian Israelis from living in villages where the Jewish majority wishes to exclude them,” Shniad said.
“A third law that is in the final stages of receiving legislative approval outlaws the boycotting of products from Israel as well as areas under its control — in other words, products from Israeli settlements situated on Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank and Syria’s Golan Heights,” he noted.
“These Israeli settlements are illegal under international law. Yet under the terms of this new law, actions like the recent refusal by Israeli actors to perform in the illegal settlement of Ariel would be liable to criminal prosecution. We agree with Uri Avnery, the Israeli activist, who argues that this law amounts to a legislative annexation of the occupied Palestinian Territories,” he concluded.
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