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Related: About this forumCourt to allow anti-Arab protest outside Jewish-Palestinian wedding
http://972mag.com/palestinian-jewish-couple-to-court-thwart-protest-at-our-wedding/95607/A Palestinian citizen of Israel and his fiance, a Jewish Israeli who converted to Islam, have turned to the courts to try and prevent a protest planned at their wedding Sunday night, Haaretz reported.
As I reported here Thursday, the anti-miscegenation, anti-Arab group Lehava publicized the couples wedding invitation on social media in full with date and location and called on supporters to show up and protest the union. It doesnt interest them that the bride has converted and no longer considers herself a Jew, or that they are two consenting adults who wish to spend their lives together. As far as they are concerned, she is an apostate who must be saved from this Muslim man.
The couple requested that the court not only issue an injunction against the protest but also against the group for the harassment they have been subjected to. Along with some of their family members, the two have reportedly received death threats over the phone. As a result, before turning to the court, they were required by the police to hire 33 security guards at a cost of NIS 15,000, of which the wedding hall will pay half.
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The groom, Mahmoud Mansour, told Haaretz: Weve been together for five years, but weve never encountered such racism. I always knew there were racists, but as long as youre not affected by it, until you feel it in your own body, you dont know what it is.
As I reported here Thursday, the anti-miscegenation, anti-Arab group Lehava publicized the couples wedding invitation on social media in full with date and location and called on supporters to show up and protest the union. It doesnt interest them that the bride has converted and no longer considers herself a Jew, or that they are two consenting adults who wish to spend their lives together. As far as they are concerned, she is an apostate who must be saved from this Muslim man.
The couple requested that the court not only issue an injunction against the protest but also against the group for the harassment they have been subjected to. Along with some of their family members, the two have reportedly received death threats over the phone. As a result, before turning to the court, they were required by the police to hire 33 security guards at a cost of NIS 15,000, of which the wedding hall will pay half.
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The groom, Mahmoud Mansour, told Haaretz: Weve been together for five years, but weve never encountered such racism. I always knew there were racists, but as long as youre not affected by it, until you feel it in your own body, you dont know what it is.
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Court to allow anti-Arab protest outside Jewish-Palestinian wedding (Original Post)
R. Daneel Olivaw
Aug 2014
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Except these guys are supporters of an ethnic cleansing, these guys are demanding real blood and
Fred Sanders
Aug 2014
#2
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(6,498 posts)1. Sounds like the Israeli version of...
...the Westboro Baptist Church is alive and kicking.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)2. Except these guys are supporters of an ethnic cleansing, these guys are demanding real blood and
may get it.
Is this the vision of Israel that people imagined half a century ago?
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)3. It certainly doesn't paint Israel in a favorable light.
It does show that Israel will sanction bigotry against an Israeli couple who just want to get married.
If this marriage were happening between two Israelis who converted to Judaism from a different religion what do you think would be the official response if Palestinians wanted to protest it?
The the poor couple have their marriage ceremony in peace.