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Not a Word
by Stanley Heller
When the President of Syria made anti-Jewish statements what was the
response? There was wide media coverage, angry editorials and
denunciations by public figures. Excellent, but what happens when the
shoe is on the other foot? An important Jewish politician makes
repeated racist comments and calls for the murder of Arabs. The
response? Total silence.
The politician is Ovidah Yosef of the Shas Party, which is a powerful
part of the Israeli governing coalition. The French News Service AFP
reports that on July 27 Yosef, a rabbi, gave a sermon on Israeli radio
in which he said, "In the old city of Jerusalem they're swarming like
ants. They should go to hell -- and the Messiah will speed them on
their way". The sermon was broadcast by Israeli Army Radio, giving it
semi-official government standing. Earlier this year Yosef denounced
Arabs as "snakes" and "vipers".
He has actually gone far beyond these disgusting references. He's
twice called for the mass murder of Arabs. In a pre-Passover sermon in
April Ha'aretz news service reported that he said Arabs were an enemy
of the Jewish people and that, "It is forbidden to be merciful to
them, you must give them missiles, with relish - annihilate them. Evil
ones, damnable ones." The news service stated that "Rabbi Yosef, who
has also attacked Israeli leftists and others in graphic terms, also
was quoted as saying 'May the Holy Name visit retribution on the
Arabs' heads, and cause their seed to be lost, and annihilate them,
and cause them to be vanquished and cause them to be cast from the
world.' "
Back in 1989 the Shas Party issued a campaign booklet that included a
prayer calling for a shoah (holocaust) of Arabs. Yosef wrote the
preface to the booklet.
A person who has talked this poison year after year obviously should
be driven from public life. The major media should be campaigning.
Political leaders in Israel and the U.S. and clergymen from every
political persuasion should be condemning his views. Yosef should be
kicked out of any elected, appointed or spiritual position he has with
Shas.
Yet none of this has happened. In the U.S. there is scarcely a
newspaper or TV station that hasn't reported and reported on Louis
Farrakhan's nasty statements about the Jewish religion. However, the
vicious comments of a man who is ten times more powerful are totally
overlooked.
I personally wrote about Yosef to the Anti-Defamantion League, the
Jewish organization that is dedicated to rooting out racism. I also
wrote to President Bush, Connecticut's Senators and all six of our
members of Congress. I contacted the New York Times, the Washington
Post and the Chicago Tribune.
The silence is defeaning.
(The writer is a Jewish-American who has chaired the Middle East
Crisis Committee of New Haven since 1982.)
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by courtesy & � 2001 Stanely Heller & MECC
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