Hey Kids, keep it kosher.

[no_hypocrisy]

Israel's Fear of Jewish Girls Dating Arabs; Team of Psychologists to "Rescue" Women

A local authority in Israel has announced that it is establishing a special team of youth counselors and psychologists whose job it will be to identify young Jewish women who are dating Arab men and "rescue" them.

The move by the municipality of Petah Tikva, a city close to Tel Aviv, is the latest in a series of separate -- and little discussed -- initiatives from official bodies, rabbis, private organisations and groups of Israeli residents to try to prevent interracial dating and marriage.

In a related development, the Israeli media reported this month that residents of Pisgat Zeev, a large Jewish settlement in the midst of Palestinian neighbourhoods in East Jerusalem, had formed a vigilante-style patrol to stop Arab men from mixing with local Jewish girls.

Hostility to intimate relationships developing across Israel's ethnic divide is shared by many Israeli Jews, who regard such behaviour as a threat to the state's Jewishness. One of the few polls on the subject, in 2007, found that more than half of Israeli Jews believed intermarriage should be equated with "national treason."

-more-

http://www.alternet.org/world/142900/israel%27s_fear_of_jewish_girls_dating_arabs%3B_team_of_psychologists_to_%22rescue%22_women_

[hobbit709]

1. Nothing like a little racism.

Where have we heard this before?

[orpupilofnature57]

2. Forgive them ,their " Defending themselves " as is usually Their defense for

Their Atrocities.

[LeftishBrit]

3. The very fact that this has become an issue...

means that a significant number of Jews and Arabs are mixing and dating. Until recently, this was very rare.

No doubt there are lots of older conservatives on both sides of the religious/cultural divide who don't like the developments, but such resistance never triumphs forever.

When Obama was born in the early 60s interracial marriage was illegal in several American states, and now he is president.

[orpupilofnature57]

5. True ,that is positive progress.Too bad the reward is being ostracized

by your own.

[timtom]

4. So. What is the difference between this

and the "Aryan race" myth that was so vehemently propagated some years ago?

[orpupilofnature57]

6. Not one Iota

[blue sky at night]

7. How Tiresome.............

Poor people who shout Racism whenever someone says something derogatory about or toward them, but when they espouse the same it is OK. If you don't object to a Racist, you are one.