May 26, 2016
By Judy Maltz
Citing concerns for the future of Israeli democracy and society, (click here) the Anti-Defamation League has urged the government to clamp down on Lehava, a radical anti-assimilation organization, and its leader Bentzi Gopstein.
In a letter sent this week to Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit and obtained by Haaretz, the U.S.-based ADL warned that Israel’s continued tolerance of Lehava’s “hateful discourse,” while detrimental to Israeli society, was also “used as a weapon by Israel’s enemies, who use it as a basis for their rushed conclusions and generalizations about Israeli society.”
The letter, signed by Carol Nuriel, executive director of the ADL office in Israel, refrained from recommending specific measures against the far-right organization, which is both vehemently anti-Arab and anti-Christian. “We call on you to act by whatever means the law allows to draw a clear red line before this phenomenon that is so dangerous to Israel’s society and democracy,” wrote Nuriel....
Lehava is a hate organization in Israel. They hate Christians and do not recognize any relationship with non-Jewish. It doesn't matter the relationship, business, academics or social; non-Jewish are to be eliminated from contact.
January 3, 2016
By Liat Bar-Stav
Bentzi Gopstein, leader of the "Lehava" organization
Journalist who spent two and a half months undercover (click here) as activist in anti-assimilation organization offers glimpse into group that is putting Israel's democracy to one of its sternest tests in recent years.
Lehava's world came crashing down this morning. Large police forces mounted a pre-dawn raid on the homes of several of the Jewish extremist group's most prominent activists, including chairman Bentzi Gopstein, and took them into custody on suspicion of inciting and calling for acts of violence....
By Judy Maltz
Citing concerns for the future of Israeli democracy and society, (click here) the Anti-Defamation League has urged the government to clamp down on Lehava, a radical anti-assimilation organization, and its leader Bentzi Gopstein.
In a letter sent this week to Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit and obtained by Haaretz, the U.S.-based ADL warned that Israel’s continued tolerance of Lehava’s “hateful discourse,” while detrimental to Israeli society, was also “used as a weapon by Israel’s enemies, who use it as a basis for their rushed conclusions and generalizations about Israeli society.”
The letter, signed by Carol Nuriel, executive director of the ADL office in Israel, refrained from recommending specific measures against the far-right organization, which is both vehemently anti-Arab and anti-Christian. “We call on you to act by whatever means the law allows to draw a clear red line before this phenomenon that is so dangerous to Israel’s society and democracy,” wrote Nuriel....
Lehava is a hate organization in Israel. They hate Christians and do not recognize any relationship with non-Jewish. It doesn't matter the relationship, business, academics or social; non-Jewish are to be eliminated from contact.
By Liat Bar-Stav
Bentzi Gopstein, leader of the "Lehava" organization
Journalist who spent two and a half months undercover (click here) as activist in anti-assimilation organization offers glimpse into group that is putting Israel's democracy to one of its sternest tests in recent years.
Lehava's world came crashing down this morning. Large police forces mounted a pre-dawn raid on the homes of several of the Jewish extremist group's most prominent activists, including chairman Bentzi Gopstein, and took them into custody on suspicion of inciting and calling for acts of violence....
