STOP: Racist rabbi’s appointment as Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem

[Jefferson23]

10 February 2014

Call to action to stop the appointment of a known racist as Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem. Please let Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat know that Shmuel Eliyahu is an inappropriate choice for Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem.

“The Arab society has an agenda; they want to Islamize the world. Arab society is, generally and without generalizations, a violent society.” — Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu

Shmuel Eliyahu, currently the chief rabbi of Safed, appears to have he won the backing of Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat in his candidacy for chief rabbi of Jerusalem. Eliyahu has a very serious history of racist, inflammatory, and hateful statements against Arabs, secular Jews, women, and other minorities within Israel. In 2011, a criminal investigation was launched into Eliyahu’s comment, but was dropped due to lack of proper evidence, and in 2013 a number of government officials including Tzipi Livni and Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein made moves to prevent Eliyahu’s from running for chief rabbi of Israel. The following media exhibit his beliefs quite clearly:

snip* When Eliyahu tried to prohibit the renting of apartments by Jews to Arabs in Safed in 2010, Rabbis for Human Rights came out against him, and this year, as he runs for Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, we will come out against him again. This is not an issue of freedom of speech, but rather an issue of hate speech by a government employee. He does not represent Judaism nor does he represent the Jewish people or the State of Israel. A core tenant of Judaism is love for the stranger:

in full: http://rhr.org.il/eng/2014/02/stop-racist-rabbis-appointment-as-chief-rabbi-of-jerusalem/

[Scootaloo]

1. So just a reminder...

There are many people - including several posters here - who believe that the British appointment of Haj Amin al-Husseini as grand Mufti of Jerusalem tars all Palestinians and Arabs with the fact that the guy hauled out to the Nazis.

I'm sure these same people will be JUST as critical of all the people of Israel and all Jews, if this clown gets the post. Right?

Right?

[Jefferson23]

2. According to Peter Novick, the claims that al-Husseini played a significant role in the Holocaust

was not proven with any weight. Nevertheless, a piece of shit of a man.

If he ( Eliyahu) receives the position, it seems that at least thus far, a few in the leadership
in Israel tried to prevent him from running..so there is that too. Yet clearly the
mayor embraces the idea..how many others, we'll see.

But to answer your question more directly, I see only you and myself in this thread.

on edit to clarify.

[LeftishBrit]

3. He is a horrible human being..

who is clearly opposed to basic democratic principles, and to many basic Jewish values, not to mention human values.

He is fundamentally a fascist, and should NOT be allowed into any position of leadership.

The Religious Right are pure poison, whatever the religion.

[Jefferson23]

4. Hopefully he won't be in any position of leadership. n/t

[azurnoir]

5. with an opening line like that he could almost be a tea party candidate for the House

however does this guy actually have a chance? Is this more of what seems to the ceremonial 'digging in of heels' that seems to be going on right now?

[Jefferson23]

6. Could be, I don't know..I posted it because Rabbis for Human Rights made a point to

make some noise about him.