Mungkin ini salah satu fakta yang belum semua
orang tahu, sejak revolusi Islam Iran, 75,000
warga Yahudi Iran mengungsi ke luar negeri.
Tetapi sebanyak 25,000 tetap bertahan di Iran,
14,000 di antaranya tinggal di Teheran. Di
Teheran ada 20 buah Synagoge yang aktif.
Undang-2 Iran sejak 1906 menjamin
adanya wakil golongan-2 Minoritas di Iran:
- 1 kursi untuk perwakilan Yahudi
- 4 kursi mewakili Armenian (kristen),
Assyrian (kristen?) dan Zoroaster.
***
di bbrp kota besar di Indonesia dulu sebetulnya
juga pernah ada komunitas Jahudi Belanda.
Bekas-2 Synagoge nya masi ada di bbrp. kota
besar tersebut. Kalau bagi saya tidak ada
masalah Ummat Yahudi menjadi warga negara
indonesia. Dari pada mereka pada imigrasi
ke Israel dan merampas wilayah Palestina
untuk di jadikan tanah-2 "Settlement",
mendingan mereka ini di kasih alternatif
lain yang mungkin juga menarik bagi mereka:
menjadi Warga Negara Indonesia!
saya cuman ngasih 2 syarat saja kepada
calon imigran Yahudi:
=> akan setia pada dasar negara dan
konstitusi RI ( our version of
"Madinah Charter" according to
Munawir Sadzali, the former Ministry
of Religious Affair ). kalo yang
ini mah syarat umum, semua imigran
di mana-pun juga harus begitu.
=> syarat tambahan dari saya:
pendidikan minimum Ph.D dan
harus punya track record akademi
yang bagus, karena Yahudi yang
kita terima akan di pekerjakan
di universitas-2 dan lembaga-2
riset RI :)
< kalo Prof. Noam Chomsky nanti
pensiun dari MIT dan pengin
memanfaatkan betul masa 'Purna Yudha'
nya, mendingan dia jadi ditawari
menjadi guru besar Lingustic di
UGM :) >
<http://www.rense.com/general72/livewith.htm>
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Iran's Jews Learn To Live With Ahmadinejad
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By Ewen MacAskill, Simon Tisdall and Robert Tait
in Tehran
The Guardian - UK
6-28-6
Maurice Motamed has one of the loneliest jobs in the
Middle East. When Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made his controversial
Holocaust statements, the sole Jewish MP in Iran's 290-member
Majlis (parliament) felt he had no option but to confront him.
"When our president spoke about the Holocaust, I considered it
my duty as a Jew to speak about this issue," Mr Motamed said
in his office in central Tehran. "The biggest disaster in human
history is based on tens of thousands of films and documents.
I said these remarks are a big insult to the whole Jewish
society in Iran and the whole world."
Mr Ahmadinejad, president of an overwhelmingly Muslim nation,
has not apologised. But Mr Motamed said the president had since
qualified his statement by insisting that he had not denied the
Holocaust and he was not an anti-semite.
Mr Motamed represents Iran's 25,000-strong Jewish community, the
largest such group in the Middle East outside Israel. Since 1906,
Iran's constitution has guaranteed the Jewish community one seat
in the Majlis. The Armenian, Assyrian and Zoroastrian minorities
together hold another four seats.
Although he took on Mr Ahmadinejad over the Holocaust, Mr Motamed
supports the president on other issues, including the stand-off
with the US, Europe and Israel over the country's nuclear
programme. "I am an Iranian first and a Jew second," he said.
He acknowledged there were problems with being a Jew in Iran,
as there were for the country's other minorities. But he said
that Iran was relatively tolerant. "There is no pressure on the
synagogues, no problems of desecration. I think the problem in
Europe is worse than here. There is a lot of anti-semitism in
other countries."
Most of his family, including his mother, father and sisters,
left after the 1979 revolution that brought Ayatollah Khomeini
to power, as did 75,000 other Jews, heading mainly for Israel,
the US and Europe. But Mr Motamed, 61, an engineer, opted to
remain. "I love my homeland."
Jews have been living in Iran in large numbers since Cyrus the
Great freed them from slavery when he captured Babylon in 539BC.
Members of the Jewish community in Iran today, for the most part,
keep a low profile and many Iranians are unaware of their presence.
Mr Motamed said there were about 14,000 Jews in Tehran, which has
20 active synagogues; 6,000-7,000 in Shiraz; 2,000 in Estafan and
small groups scattered throughout the rest of the country.
He confirmed Jews and other minorities were all excluded
from "sensitive" senior posts in the military and judiciary. And
the authorities refuse to allow Jewish schools to close on the
sabbath, a normal working day for the rest of Iran.
Ehrlich: This surprised me.
But Mr Motamed said there had been improvements in other areas.
Legislation was introduced three years ago overturning a judicial
practice of awarding more compensation to the families of Muslim
accident victims than to those of Jews. And when he complained in
the chamber about a TV soap opera regularly portraying rabbis as
evil, he said the speaker of the Majlis expressed support for him.
Nasser Hadian-Jazy, associate professor of political science at
Tehran University and a childhood friend of the president, said
Mr Ahmadinejad was keen to put the Holocaust row behind him.
"I asked him, 'Are you anti-Jew?' He said, 'I am not.' I said,
'Why not go to a synagogue to express regret for what Iranians
have done to Jews?' ... He said, 'I have another idea, a better
idea.'
"He will do something to show he is not anti-Jewish. I hope he
will do it soon. He will make a gesture to the Jews in Iran and
that has implications for Jews elsewhere. What he will say is
very important and will remove the idea that he is anti-semite."
Saeed Jalili, Iran's deputy foreign minister and another close
friend of Mr Ahmadinejad, said the Jewish seat in the Majlis
"tells you that we have no problems with Judaism" but he added
that he had not heard of any planned gesture by Mr Ahmadinejad.
"The Jewish community in this country are very fairly treated ...
Of course, a symbolic gesture is good and well, but we think that
what we do is more than symbolic."
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,1807160,00.html>
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