JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A clip by the UTJ party has aroused fierce opposition in secular political circles, after it portrayed reform conversions by using dogs wearing Jewish symbols such as a Kippah and Tefillin. The clip mocks the custom among some reform Jews of making a sort of ‘bark mitzva’ for their dogs, and says that if courts will decide who is Jewish, dogs will also be accepted.
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The clip was published in the wake of the Israeli supreme court decision to recognize Reform and Conservative conversions for the purpose of granting Israeli citizenship under the Law of Return. However secular politicians and journalists understood it to be comparing reform Jews to dogs and reacted angrily to the clip.
The Haaretz newspaper headline read: “Netanyahu Allies Compare Reform Jews to Dogs in Racist Election Ads”. Meretz MK Yair Golan wrote that “according to UTJ’s propaganda, reform Jews are simply dogs and whoever underwent a reform conversion. If that isn’t an antisemitic caricature then what is? How can you dare to say that 70% of American Jews are not Jewish? Where is the communal responsibility, where are the 70 expressions of the Torah, where is the concern for converts. Today I feel a deep shame for my people.”
Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid wrote that “my father told me once that on the Budapest parliament there was a large sign: ‘No entry for Jews and dogs.’ Antisemites throughout the ages compared Jews to dogs. Now UTJ has joined them. Disgusting.”
Others however pointed out that there is no comparison between reform Jews and dogs but merely a statement of how far the court could go in recognizing Jews. The clip of a ‘bark mitzvah’ is taken from a real party performed for such a dog:
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Facebook also removed the clip, claiming that it compares humans to dogs and “violates community rules regarding hateful speech.”
If anyone can be called anti Semitic in Israel, its none other than the extreme secular left.
Funny coming from Meretz and published in Haaretz. These guys are clowns.
The Zionists, like the chazir showing its split hooves, love to trot out various maamarei Chazal to “support” their heresy.
“Meretz MK Yair Golan wrote that “UTJ…How can you dare to say that 70% of American Jews are not Jewish? Where is the communal responsibility, where are the 70 expression of the Torah, where is the concern for converts. Today I feel a deep shame for my people.””
Let’s break that down.
“70% of American Jews”, presumably refers to the number who identify as “reform”. If those Jews were either born of a Jewish mother or converted kaHalacha, then they are Jews. Otherwise, they are not Jews. That’s simple halachic fact.
Shivim panim laTorah is for Torah purposes, as opposed to “megaleh panim baTorah sheLo kaHalacha” which is much more applicable here.
“VaAhavtem es haGeir” is for actual halachically Jewish converts, not fake converts.
The shame he should feel is over his Zionist imposter faith, which dares to claim the right to determine who is a Jew.
Maybe they should mock Blacks on Purim by putting on blackface and Afro wigs, to show how ‘frum’ they are. Oh. They just did that.
disgusting to compare dogs to reform and liberal jews.
dogs are faithful to their master,
liberal and reform Jews are NOT faithful to their master.
Dogs of the world protest this racist comparison to something as disgusting as reform and liberal Jews!
Anyone converted by reform or conservative are just as Jewish as a dog, meaning they aren’t Jewish at all.