'May 27, 2006
Israel's own Nuremberg Laws?
Today in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, columnist Avraham Tal was lamenting the fact that some Palestinians and Israelis are trying to transform Israel into "a state of all its citizens."
According to him, too many of the wrong kind of human are being born or getting married in Israel. He's worried about the presence of those "foreigners" - no, not Jewish immigrants from Ethiopia or Russia - but the indigenous Palestinians.
Even though last week Israel's High Court "institutionalized racial discrimination" by upholding an anti-Palestinian marriage law, Tal is worried that someday in the near future, Israel's judges won't be racist. A horrible state of affairs, indeed.
In order to combat this clamoring for equality, Tal has an ingenious suggestion (and no, it's not killing the Arabs, that's forAvigdor Lieberman) - it's another racist Basic Law!
In order to combat this clamoring for equality, Tal has an ingenious suggestion (and no, it's not killing the Arabs, that's forAvigdor Lieberman) - it's another racist Basic Law!
In order to avert the danger, the issue must be inoculated against High Court interference. The best way would be the legislation of a Basic Law that states that the existence of the national home for the Jewish people in the land of Israel and the preservation of the Jewish majority in it are a basic principle, according to which every future legal or administrative process will be examined.
Hmm...Basic Laws...a national home...preservation of an ethnic majority...does that sound familiar?
Back in 1935, some crazies passed the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor:
Firm in the knowledge that the purity of German blood is the basis for the survival of the German people and inspired by the unshakeable determination to safeguard the future of the German nation, the Reichstag has unanimously resolved upon the following law, which is promulgated herewith:Section 1: Marriages between Jews and citizens of German or some related blood are forbidden. Such marriages contracted despite the law are invalid, even if they take place abroad in order to avoid the law.
Two months later, Jews were stripped of their citizenship and removed from public office.
As Dorothy from Israeli organization New Profile, who brought this to my attention, wrote, "What ensued from these laws we all know. This should remind us that when demography is the guiding criterion of a state, there are no limits to what a country might do to maintain its ethnographic/religious/racial majority."
And before someone decides to be original and call me anti-Semitic: no, I am not saying Israel is the same as Nazi Germany. I'm just pointing out eerily similar tendencies. I'm aware there are many who support, defend, and attempt to justify Israel's actions. Of course, good Germans did that in 1935, too.
It's a slippery slope. Beware the writing on the wall:
All of the above is graffiti from Jewish colonists in the West Bank, photographed by Christian Peacemaker Teams.
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