Jerusalem – A new law prohibiting the “Nazi” curse and the cynical use the Nazi’s yellow star for Jews will be introduced in the Knesset by Kadima Knesset Member Yoel Hasson, he said Sunday morning.
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If the bill is passed into law, violators could be sentenced to six months in jail and/or fined NIS 100,000 ($26,000).
Saturday night’s use of the yellow star by demonstrators in the hareidi religious neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem prompted MK Hasson to prepare the new bill, he said.
“We were witness last night to a cynical act and disparagement from the same extremists that spit on children and curse soldiers simply because they are women,” the Kadima legislator explained.
He said his bill also would also prohibit protesters from wearing clothes that depict Jewish prisoners in Nazi death camps in what he called “the darkest chapter in the history of the Jewish people.”
MK Hasson pointed out that many European countries outlaw the use of Nazi symbols.
Good bill. Should have been enacted years ago. I hope they publicize any member of the knesset who votes against the bill…………..
“Jerusalem – New Law Would Prohibit Use Of Nazi’s Yellow Star”
How strange it has taken Israel so long; the Germans (the cradle of the Nazis) enacted such laws years ago – and the law there has teeth.
Totally separate from recent events, my own community here in the United States (which includes a reasonably large frum population) had begun efforts to establish a “sister city” relationship with Beth Shemesh in EY several weeks ago. While the vile demonstration last night in Meah Shearim was not in Beth Shemesh, the bus incident, the spitting icident and other atrocities of the past few weeks have so disgusted the American community that my county this week will terminate its plans for promoting Beth Shemesh.
KUDOS and BRAVO to MK Yoel Hasson!! Regardless of which party you belong to, you’ve earned the respect of ALL.
imho this law is just another step in goal of supressing the haredim. laws in countries were enacted against nazi sympathizers. not against people feeling the need to protest and show that you hassan and your media accomplices who in my 15 years reading israeli secular newspapers have always found it ironic that these haredim never by mistake did anything constructive. they are always calling them parasites etc. just like lehavdil the nazis. soo y should they not express their feelings that hilonim are stepping on their beliefs like the nazis did? number 1, I’m hurt by your comments. for it sounds that you are against the suppressed too! imho, this entire saga is overblown by the “nazi” leftist media. without their attempt to trample and besmirch the haredim, there wouldn’t be such sentiment in the haredi community, and they wouldn’t feel it appropriate to demonstrate their plight by other jews in this manner.
So what if they forbid the use of that particular symbol? Such symbols have been around for 1000 years and any one of them can be copied with the same meaning. Are the crazy israelis going to prohibit each and every one? And all to avoid embarassment in the foreign media (veiled of course in reverence for the memory of the victims of the holocaust, like everything else they do). What a cynical ploy.
You want a prison cell????? You got one!!!!!!
As long as the law includes a clause against secular and media oppression and incitement, I’m for it.
about time..
and teach them who the real nazis were and what happened in the shoah.
time for some history lessons for these morons…
I hope they do pass the bill. And fast. I almost got sick from seing those pictures!!! I am not a holocaust survivor but to make light of the gehinnom they suffered and died thru…. Btw I’m chassidish too and very chareidi but I would NEVER act this way…live and let keave …divrei chachamim b’nachas…peacefully…its enough the neo mazis dress this way…how can we hurt our own ppl?
It’s actually quite simple. Who ever thought we would need such a law in Eretz Yisroel? Only now that we have these lunatics roaming the streets stepping on the ashes of their grandparents do we need such a law.
As a Jew educated in a traditional Yeshivah, I’m deeply embarrassed by the lack of unconditional condemnation by the leadership of the haradi world… not only of the extremists but also of anyone who sympathizes with them, or supports them in any way…. the fact that over 1000 joined the extremist demonstration in Jerusalem, proves that the problem goes beyond a fringe group… these people pervert and defile the essence of Judaism, their beliefs and actions violate core Torah values and they can’t be allowed to be considered a ‘legitimate’ Jewish movement, even a fringe one, any more then Jews for Jesus are… There are those in the haradi world who prefer to circle the wagons, to feel victimized by the press and the outrage of the Israeli public… there are those who are harassed by the extremists and are afraid to speak out… and there are others who become syndical and lost hope for change… This is how these fanatics take over! We can’t allow that to happen, we can’t allow these people to destroy the traditional Torah community from within… Many Rosh HaYeshivah’s and leaders in the haradi community are afraid to speak out… many are literally afraid for their lives, as death threa
I believe the bill proposed is foolish.
The Knesset should not influence or decide on matters of speech so long as it does not cause or incite violence. The yellow star while in poor taste, should NOT be a matter given over to the Knesset to legislate. Free speech means free speech. Maybe they should outlaw shtreimels? miniskirts? the star of David?- NO, of course not.
Just another example of Knesset overreach.
While on the topic. I think the fault lies squarely on the religious leardership, of all stripes. The fact that these people are referred to (with some reverence I might add) as ‘Chareidim’, Ultra-orthodox, Ultra-religious adds to the temerity the majority of ‘chareidim’ have in condemning this behavior.
What needs to be done is what Chabad did to Satmar years ago. That is, not eat their Shechita and not use their religious services, mohalim, melamdim etc. It’s quite simple really. If the chareidi leadership can’t control a ‘few hooligans’ then who is to say they can control and supervise the Shochatim, and Mohalim.
If that doesn’t work , we don’t count them for minyan, zimun etc. untill they relent.
They should discontinue the use of any color star!! Let them take out a history book!!
make sure the law states except at a protest against returning land to arabs. when sharon gave back gush katif it was allowed to wear yellow stars and carry signs traitor nazi in midtown mannhattan
I think they shall out law the blue star. In williamsburg it is outlawed and burned all the time.
imho this law is just another step in goal of supressing the haredim. laws in countries were enacted against nazi sympathizers. not against people feeling the need to protest and show that you hassan and your media accomplices who in my 15 years reading israeli secular newspapers have always found it ironic that these haredim never by mistake did anything constructive. they are always calling them parasites etc. just like lehavdil the nazis. soo y should they not express their feelings that hilonim are stepping on their beliefs like the nazis did? number 1, I’m hurt by your comments. for it sounds that you are against the suppressed too! imho, this entire saga is overblown by the “nazi” leftist media. without their attempt to trample and besmirch the haredim, there wouldn’t be such sentiment in the haredi community, and they wouldn’t feel it appropriate to demonstrate their plight by other jews in this manner.
Throwing bleach and spitting at women is no way for anyone to act, especially religious Jews. They should learn from the holocaust that we are all Jews, and all would have shared the same train to Auschwitz. There was no discrimination. A Jew is a Jew.
Calling another Jew a nazi is a violation of the issur d’Oraisa of onaas devarim (hurting someone’s feelings). Why is it that the extremists want the state to impose gender segregation (which is merely a chumra) but are against imposing a halachah of onaas devarim (which is d’Oraisa)?