ISRAELI CHILD NOT 'WHITE ENOUGH' FOR SCHOOL
(Ben Heine © Cartoons)
What is apartheid coming to? Palestinians are separated from Israelis by walls and checkpoints.... now Jews of African and Spanish origin are separated from Jews of Eastern European decent by school boards....Did anyone hear Foxman scream DISCRIMINATION??? I didn't...
Did anyone hear AIPAC threaten to withhold funds??? I didn't....
I guess certain forms of racism are acceptable in their racist circles..
The following YNet article speaks of a child rejected from a religious school in Israel basically because he just wasn't 'white enough'...
Way to go Israhell!!!
Haredi school rejects 'Sephardi' child
Talmud Torah school rejects four-year-old due to Sephardi grandfather. Principal says child has ‘stain’ in genealogy
Zvi Alush
Anyone who thinks that racist rules are a thing of the past is wrong, according to the mother of a four-and-a-half year old child who was rejected from a Talmud Torah school because of his grandfather’s ethnicity.
“They are alive and kicking in all their ugliness in Ashkenazi haredi educational institutions,” the mother said.
The child was denied admission to a Talmlud Torah school in Beit Shemesh because of what its principal called a “stain” in his genealogy.
“Tell the child’s dear father that although he himself is completely Ashkenazi, his wife’s father is Sephardic, and we therefore cannot accept his son into our institution. We have to maintain a certain standard,” the principal said.
The child’s mother made several attempts to change the principal’s mind, to no avail.
“I begged the principal. I explained that my child is truly Ashkenazi and looks exactly like his father. Our son also speaks Yiddish, but nothing helped,” the mother said. “They explained to a friend of ours that they didn’t want to ruin their Talmud Torah with ‘damaged goods’.”
The Talmud Torah school had previously given the same explanation to several other frustrated parents who petitioned MK Meir Porush (United Torah Judaism) for help.
The Knesset member tried several times to convince the principal to allow the rejected children admission to the school, but the principal insisted there was “no room” in the institution.
“This is a complicated problem. I don’t deal with condemning these things, just like I don’t condemn kibbutzim, which sometimes select who to accept as a member. There are communities that wish to be strict about their religion or social character. It’s not simple,” Porush said.
The school’s principal, who had previously said he only wanted “100% Ashkenazim” at his institution, told Yedioth Ahronoth he had no idea how many, if any, Sephardic children were enrolled in the school.
“There is no clause in our educational institution’s regulations about this. We only make sure that our students are good children from explicitly haredi families. Whether someone is Sephardic or Ashkenazi makes no difference to me,” the principal said.
In a statement, the Education Ministry issued a statement saying, “The ministry takes any attempt to discriminate against students because of their ethnicity or their sex very seriously.”
“The claims will be looked into, and should investigations show that the students were rejected because of their ethnic group, the ministry will take steps to force the institution to accept them.”
posted by Desert Peace @ 12:08 PM
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10 Comments:
Jolly!
Dare we not to say the "white" jews were in competition with Nazis to take the crown of "superior race"!
I didn't think or know that Jews discrimated against each other.
If it is true, it is a great pity as I have thought of them as a model of great sharing.
This is all very backward. When not institute DNA testing a define what is an Ashkenazi.
Some work has already been done. Heritary Jews of any sort are not white
"In common with earlier studies, the team found no data to support the idea that Jewish people were genetically distinct from other people in the region. In doing so, the team's research challenges claims that Jews are a special, chosen people and that Judaism can only be inherited.
Jews and Palestinians in the Middle East share a very similar gene pool and must be considered closely related and not genetically separate, the authors state. Rivalry between the two races is therefore based 'in cultural and religious, but not in genetic differences', they conclude"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/genes/article/0,2763,605806,00.html
All self-respecting Sephardim should denounce, disown, and distance themselves from "zionism," as the political movement is based on a religious fallacy that all Jews of the world must proactively, physically relocate to the "land of Israel" (allegedly, according to the Bible). A major contradiction — just to name one — lies in the fact that useful and oppotunistic idiots amongst Sephardim and Christians support the ethnic cleansing and discrimination against their own people: the ones whose bloodline-based roots to the land truly go back all those centuries. There's enough hypocrisy, dark irony, and treachery — within that context alone — to write a book, not beginning to mention the volumes written on the general context of the fallaciousness and fraudulence inherent in zionism, the founding of the state of Israel, and the misuses of anti-Semitism. (Read the writings of Norman Finkelstein, Raul Hilberg, Edward Said, Ilan Pappe, Avi Shlaim, and Rabbi Yisroel "David" Weiss, for starters.)
I would personally leave out"rabbi' Weiss... I am not a fan of his or the hypocritical group he represents.
The only reason Natori Karta are against the State of Israel is because it is supposedly a secular state... not one governed by the Laws in the Torah.
Their 'love' for Palestinians are as dangerous as their hatred for most secular Jews... Both groups would perish under a government led by them. Don't be fooled by their double talk.
How Anti-Semitic of them! Those Zionist idiots wouldn't even be there if it weren't for the Sephardic Jews who were there before them. The Zionists are merely occupiers in the region.
I apreciate Naturei Karta's stance on the state of Israel and zionism, and had no idea they were acting hypocritically, or that they wanted to have anything to do with the governing of the land. I always figured they wanted the state dismantled in favor of one state for all Palestinians — both Jews and Gentiles. I also appreciate how Weiss dispells the myths upon which the State of Israel was founded. All that said, his specific religious views are the last thing on my mind. Perhaps I should read up more on Weiss and Naturei Karta...(?)
You're being silly, Ben. None of this has anything to do with Zionist this and Apartheid that and also nothing to do with any Western idea of "whiteness." Let's say the Ynet story is accurate just for the sake of argument. Some communities are elitist. It's a human thing and it goes both ways. I know an Ashkenazi guy who married a Sefardi (Persian) girl. Her family put up all the resistance, not his. Maybe they will invent a pill someday that will cure people from being petty.
Shades of Hitler in the story,"stain on geneolgy! Excuse me? Hitler didn't care, he called you Jew if the closest relative of Jewish desent was a grandparent. Give your ignorant heads a shake.
This is a private school. If they want to deny people, that's their right. No public school in Israel would do that though. I myself am half sephardim and half ashkenazi, and have never faced discrimination from my fellow jews....although I don't know too many orthodox jews, so maybe that's why.
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