Hundreds in Jerusalem protest the arrest of senior rabbis

[calybe]

Two top rabbis briefly detained for questioning for their endorsement of book which justifies killing of non-Jews; Rabbi Dov Lior, chief rabbi of Kiryat Arba, says arrests have awakened rightist activists.

Hundreds of people gathered in front of the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on Monday night for a mass protest against the arrests of senior rabbis

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[omgangiepants]

More from a different source:

"According to the book’s author, Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira, 'Non-Jews are “uncompassionate by nature' and should be killed in order to 'curb their evil inclinations.'"

"Before an audience of 250 supporters including the far-right Israeli Knesset member Michael Ben-Ari, the rabbis declared in the name of the Holy Torah that would not submit to any attempt by the government to regulate their political activities - even and especially if those activities included inciting terrorist attacks against non-Jews."

"One of Shapira’s followers, an American immigrant named Jack Teitel, has confessed to murdering two innocent Palestinians and attempting to the kill the liberal Israeli historian Ze’ev Sternhell with a mail bomb."

"In 2006, Shapira was briefly held by Israeli police for urging his supporters to murder all Palestinians over the age of 13. Two years later, according to the Israeli daily Haaretz, he signed a rabbinical letter in support of Israeli Jews who had brutally assaulted two Arab youths on the country’s Holocaust Remembrance Day. That same year, Shapira was arrested under suspicion that he helped orchestrate a rocket attack against a Palestinian village near Nablus."

[leprofessional]

"According to the book’s author, Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira, 'Non-Jews are “uncompassionate by nature' and should be killed in order to 'curb their evil inclinations.'"

How compassionate... and not at all cray-cray.

[silmaril]

That sentence made my irony meter head for the nearest employment office to seek a job as a Geiger counter. The note it left behind says "less danger of exploding due to overload."

[zeitgeistic]

should be killed in order to 'curb their evil inclinations.

I think killing them will do more than 'curb' their evil inclinations...it will probably end those inclinations altogether.

Come on people, let's get our infinitive verbs right when we're being completely batshit crazy.

[amyura]

....and killing innocent people due to their status as gentiles is....compassionate? WTF?

[omgangiepants]

Well you see it was bad when gentiles did it to Jews but it's okay for Jews to do it to gentiles because