And Now For Even More Israeli Nazis
As if the 500 anti-Semitic incidents in 2001 weren't enough. As if the rise in anti-Semitic incidents in Israel in 2003 wasn't enough of a travesty.
Haaretz reports:
Haaretz has uncovered Internet sites put up by Israelis in their 30s who immigrated from the CIS that supply Nazi and Russian nationalist content.In 2003 a Web site operated by Ilia Zolotov, an Israel Defense Forces soldier who called himself a "Russian patriot," was exposed. The Web site, whose name translates to the White Israeli Union, was housed on an Israeli server. Its content included Nazi and Holocaust-denial materials. It was eventually closed down by the police. Zolotov was sentenced to community service and sent on a tour of death camps in Poland.
Since the closure of Zolotov's Web site, his successors have gotten more sophisticated. Now they use servers based abroad, usually in Russia, to evade the authorities. One such site operator is Alex [a pseudonym], who is in his 30s and holds a security-related job. His site, www.rusnatcentre.tk, is hosted by a Russian server.
Alex refers to himself on the site as "the Russian tank operator" or "the fighter from Jerusalem," a tribute to his service in the Armored Corps. In a conversation with Haaretz, he denied that his site carries anti-Semitic messages, asserting that it is pro-Russian only.
"The Russian National Center is a Russian nationalist association that lives in Israel," Alex explains. "The main mission of our organization is nationalist propaganda among ethnic Russians residing in Israel, encouraging their return to Russia, opposing the return of Jews from Israel to Russia, and opposing conversion to Judaism," Alex said.
Benign pro-Russian group, or a new faction of ha'Reich ha'Shlishi? Irina's story takes it further:
Irina, 18, lives in central Israel. She belonged to a group of..."Nazi skinheads," that terrorized the ultra-Orthodox residents of a central-Israel city...[Irina] was the girlfriend of the group's leader, Leonid [a pseudonym - M.K.]. Leonid, who is now about 19, immigrated at age 10 from Azerbaijan on the Law of Return. The only Jew in his family was one of his grandfathers....A group of about 15 teens who believed in the Nazi ideology coalesced around Leonid. One of their favorite activities, Irina says, was attacking Haredi. "Nazi skinheads hate the religious, especially Haredim, for them the Haredim are the ugly Jews ... On weekends we'd meet in the parks, drinking and smoking and listening to Nazi music," and then they would go out in search of dossim [a derogatory Hebrew term for religious Jews], Irina related. "On Hitler's birthday we'd met at a cemetery and celebrate," she said.
The Israeli Law of Return's being amended to the exclusion of converts is downright laughable in light of its still allowing for this. The Law of Return allowed for "Leonid" to be recognized as a Jew -- he escaped to his safe Mediterranean haven only to feel alienated enough to celebrate Hitler's birthday in the Holy Land.
Outside of the glaring neon underscore that this gives to the problem of unchecked immigration from Eastern Europe, does this show that Israel is failing even more of its new olim than originally expected? Are Russian youth being left to feel this disenfranchised? What is Yisra'el Beiteinu - the quite Russo-centric Israeli immigrant party - doing with itself, then? Don't they advocate a citizenship framework which would "require all Israeli citizens to pledge allegiance to the State"? What about Alex?
Comments
Whoa, whoa, whoa. I was following this all along until you said this, "Are Russian youth being left to feel this disenfranchised?" If they're hating or killing Jews they're evil, and it's a big mistake to welcme them into Israel, especially under the pretense of being Jewish, which is bogus. I've got one thing to say about this, "Send the rasha back to Russia." Hey, I think I'm gonna blog on that now.
Posted by: Yaniv | February 28, 2007 05:12 PM
I am 100% with Y-Love! I understand that this is Babylon and that this is 'This Generation' still doing the same things under a new nickname! I would really like to know where Y-Love is hosts shows/performs ... basically, where can I find out more info about him......
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sheBa
Posted by: sheBa | March 2, 2007 06:48 AM
Yaniv, your hypocrisy makes me sick, really. Few freak youngsters don't represent the whole community. And an overall amount of cases of the so-called anti-semitism is really insignificant. But you dare to stereotype the whole "russian" islaeli community, which is one of the largest(1/5 of population of Israel). I think that thing you are doing is a real anti-semitism and anti-zionism. You forgot that Israel was founded by east-european jews and intended to be an asylum for east-european(mostly russan)jews at first place, because they were persecuted like no any other jewish community in the world. For example, moroccan jews and other sephardic jews never faced persecurions of such scale like east-european jews did. They(moroccan jews etc.) didn't come through Holocaust nor through pogroms etc., so they belong to Israel far less than so called "russians". One of the main reasons for Israel existence is Aliyah, because an end of Aliyah puts an end to Zionism, and an end of Zionism puts an end to Israel. Israel is our Promised Land, you have nothing to do here but accept it. If such an arrangement doesn't suit you, you always is welcome to move out. We are not gonna miss you.
Posted by: Tal | April 5, 2007 06:33 PM
Yaniv, your hypocrisy makes me sick, really. Few freak youngsters don't represent the whole community. And an overall amount of cases of the so-called anti-semitism is really insignificant. But you dare to stereotype the whole "russian" islaeli community, which is one of the largest(1/5 of population of Israel). I think that thing you are doing is a real anti-semitism and anti-zionism. You forgot that Israel was founded by east-european jews and intended to be an asylum for east-european(mostly russan)jews at first place, because they were persecuted like no any other jewish community in the world. For example, moroccan jews and other sephardic jews never faced persecurions of such scale like east-european jews did. They(moroccan jews etc.) didn't come through Holocaust nor through pogroms etc., so they belong to Israel far less than so called "russians". One of the main reasons for Israel existence is Aliyah, because an end of Aliyah puts an end to Zionism, and an end of Zionism puts an end to Israel. Israel is our Promised Land, you have nothing to do here but accept it. If such an arrangement doesn't suit you, you are always welcome to move out of country. We are not gonna miss you.
Posted by: Tal | April 5, 2007 06:35 PM