Israeli police say they have broken up a gang of neo-Nazis who are accused of carrying out attacks on foreigners, gay people and religious Jews.
The eight suspects, aged 16-21, are all Israeli citizens from the former Soviet Union. They were arrested a month ago, but the news only emerged on Saturday.
Police say the gang members would target homosexuals, Jews who wore a skull cap and drug addicts, often video taping their attacks.
The suspects all migrated to Israel under the Law of Return which allows anyone with at least one Jewish grandparent to become a citizen.
The Law of Return hasn’t been applied universally, anyway. Some of Israel’s most reactionary governments have blocked the “return” of Jews from non-white cultures – making the decision genetic rather than cultural.
Oxymorons
The Law of Return is most racist and undemocratic thing ever. But yeah theocratic laws can ignored because Israel is the “only free fair democracy’ in the region. A dark mizrahi jew or an arab jew routinely get discriminated and profiled…while all the ‘rightful’ lily white eastern european khazars are embraced.
Wouldn’t it be nice if oxymorons like these guys (kudus Jag, good observation) would realize that their ideology requires that they kill themselves? Wouldn’t it be great if they started there?
Well isn’t that convenient. They will lock up the neo-nazis but the old fascists in their own country that put up walls and routinely call for wiping out all arabs are hailed as heroes of the nation.
Pot, please meet kettle.
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#4 – Cursor_,
I’m not saying Israel is behaving correctly. I certainly don’t like the idea of any theocracy and don’t agree with many of Israel’s actions. However, I would like to know how you would choose to handle it when people blow up the school buses on which your children ride to school?
In short, it is a very complicated situation. Israel has been dealing with terrorism since the day of her inception. I don’t have the right answers for dealing with the situation. I expect you do not either. It is even possible that there are no right answers, only wrong answers and less wrong answers. I wouldn’t even know how to tell those apart.
I know about the law of return and the right of Jews to go into the country as an Oleh, but I have not read anything from a reliable source about the government “making the decision genetic rather than cultural” as you say Eideard. I am not saying that it could not happen but I would like to see your source.
#2. “A dark mizrahi jew or an arab jew routinely get discriminated and profiled…while all the ‘rightful’ lily white eastern european khazars are embraced.”
appalling! I can’t think of a single other country where dark-skinned people are discriminated against and ‘white’ people are favored …
There’s hundreds of thousands of Ethiopian Jews who came to Israel under the Right of Return. Ethiopians are as black as a human can get. If there’s discrimination under the ROR it isn’t working very well.
I think it is funny how the media and government is acting like this is some utterly unique singular event. Remember a few years ago when the “White Israeli Union” neo-Nazi group had its website taken down? With all the video of the neo-Nazis – giving the Hitler salute in their full IDF uniforms – talking about how to kill the Arabs for practice and how not to act like a “zhid” (Jew, in Russian)? Or then there were the skinhead gangs stormtrooping through Tel Aviv a few years ago too. Anyone who follows the “The Israeli Information and Assistance Center for the Victims of Anti-Semitism” ( http://pogrom.org.il/ ) which monitors neo-Nazis in Israel regularly knows this most recent event isn’t particularly unique. The problem is that the government and police “turn a blind eye” to Israeli neo-Nazis which gives them freedom to expand. Rest assured this cell isn’t all of them.
Here we have another aspect of Israel’s demographic crisis. In the rush to import olim whose only real criteria is they are not Arab or Muslim it can’t come as any surprise that that managed to import traditional Russian anti-Semites too. Most of these kids are Russians who were brought to Israel by their parents against their will, they don’t want to be Israeli and never did. HOWEVER, in the end, if Israel had not imported the million plus Russians – many, or even most, of them non-Jewish – then the non-Arab population between the river and the sea would already be a definite minority to the Arab population. There just aren’t enough legitimate Jews to maintain the current “Greater Israel,” thus the floods of non-Jewish olim, the mass conversions of Ethiopians, Indians, and Peruvian Indians, and so on. These measures – the desperation for any non-Arab/Muslim immigrants – undermines the “Jewish character” of Israel just as surely as any compromise with the native Palestinians would.
Well I guess Russians don’t really understand irony after all……
…just tragedy.
Leave it to the Russians to have anti-Semitic Jews. LOL
If there are Christians who consider non white Christians as inferior beings and the arab Muslims didn’t moved a finger when the Tsunami struck Indonesia because their fellow muslims are not arab muslims…
It’s no surprise to see a self hating jew, after all they all whorship the same God.
#8 “There’s hundreds of thousands of Ethiopian Jews who came to Israel under the Right of Return. Ethiopians are as black as a human can get. If there’s discrimination under the ROR it isn’t working very well.”
….this is so why there are Jewish Nazis already? Feh, Shvartze!
I’m sorry but the stereotypical images of Mel Brooks as a Nazi keeps popping up in my head. 😆
Well there goes that metaphor “…about as popular as Hitler at a Bar Mitzvah” down the tubes
What’s next? Black chapters of the KKK? Don’t laugh – if Jews can be Nazis…
What is going on in the world today? 😀
Cheers
Each individual should be judged by thier own actions…Its not fair to judge a race by a couple of morons…
#15 That’s so unAmerican! 😉
Cheers
Richard (#15),
I thought we all are part of the human race (Homo Sapiens), so I don’t understand your comment?!?
Why does the media always black out the faces to protect the guilty? They don’t seem to have the same consideration for the innocent.
Then again, I guess they don’t expect to get sued by the innocent….
ooops, typo
I meant after all, they all (chirstians, muslims and jewish) worship the same god 😛
A Personal message to Mr. Dvorak,
Please offer proof to your claim that my country (Israel), blocked non white jews from coming to our country. ANY PROOF.
As an Israeli I can tell you that as a fact, your claim is utter rubbish! My proof?! I live here – I KNOW!
IF (by mistake) you are referring to the Falashmura, then I am very sorry – they are not Jewish…..
John, your claim have insulted me as an Israeli – shame on you.
Oh, and by the way, you are all welcomed to let Muslims into your country (especially Angel H. Wong, I hope you live with them in the same room! he he ya kalb)….. just don’t tell us we haven’t warned you.
Cheers
Oh, I forgot to comment on the main subject……
I don’t know who those idiot neo natzi’s are (the police did not reales any details about them), but I guess you can find A-Holes everywhere…
I think some of these youngsters where dragged by their families to Israel when the great “Alia” from Russia took place. I will not be surprised if some of them are not exactly kosher Jewish (you know… his great great grandfather was jewish, so they let them come to Israel). They probably don’t want to live here so they go “crazy” with this neo Natzi crap. Anyway, these guys are seriously fucked. Israel is the wrong place to pull such tricks.
#2 – Man, you are as ignorant as it gets. Today we barely even notice where your parents came from – WHO CARES?! If you are Jewish, Israeli and a decent person that’s good enough for us. Israel is the most UN-Racist country in the world when it comes to Jews, Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, Atheists, Bahists, etc (except for muslims – they can go fuck themselves). No one in Israel will give you shit for not being a jew, they are all welcomed.
#20. As an English-speaking Israeli, you should learn to read the language more carefully – this story was not posted by Mr. Dvorak, but rather by ‘Eideard.’ Your beef is with him, not JCD.
#20
Actually, here in Honduras there is a large population of Palestinian immigrants who arrived after your grandfathers invaded their land and kicked them out.
The irony is that the vast majority are Catholics and/or Evangelic.
#21, jopa,
Israel is the most UN-Racist country in the world when it comes to Jews, Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, Atheists, Bahists, etc (except for muslims – they can go fuck themselves)
Thank you for demonstrating what most westerners have been saying for decades. Israel is a racist country and treats Palestinians like dirt. That makes it really hard to feel any empathy for Israelis.
The hasidics aren’t much better. They live off the welfare of israel, refuse to serve in the IDF, and their only contribution is fundamentalist judaism with a mean religious police streak.
#23 – Wong, the holy land has been Jewish for thousands of years, The muslims are the ones that took it from us! They are the invaders not us!
Now we have taken some of it back. I hope we take the rest of it back someday. I don’t know why Christians left the holy land and went to live in honduras. Israel never waged war against the christian minority in our country. And Honduras from all places in the world?! Sounds fishy to me.
#24 Hating the people that kill (or at least try to kill) you EVERY SINGLE DAY is not racism. We have every single reason in the world to hate Muslims. They are a wicked RACIST nation with zero tolerance to other people and other religions. Hating Natzis does not make you a racist.
#22 I know that it was found by ‘Eideard’, but aren’t the comments written by JCD?!
Cheers.
Jopa, Israeli’s aren’t racist, yet you say ‘Fuck the Muslims’, and you also say,’I don’t know why Christians left the Holy Land’, probably because you killed the son of God, his name was Jesus, i’m surprised Israeli’s don’t kill their own mother’s, you are racist, admit it, I don’t mind admitting i’m racist, you fucking kike