Neo-Nazi New immigrants in Petah Tikva

The thing about the Neo-Nazi cell in Petah Tikva, the unbelievable failure, is that we have all known about the problem for years, but the government and the police did nothing. These non-Halachically  Jewish (Halacha is Jewish religious law) neo-Nazis are an interesting psychological phenomenon, since the Nazis would have classified them as Jews. If they were ever to get to power, their first act should have have been to kill themselves. Woody Allen could make a great movie about this.

 

Now people insist that Israel must change the Law of Return. It won't do to just blame it on Law of Return. It is an opportune time to push a favorite cause of the religious lobby: to abandon those who are not Halachic Jews to their fate in the Diaspora. However, it won't really solve the problem of poor education. The Neo-Nazis didn't become such because their Jewish grandparent was of the wrong sex, but because of poor education. There might be a few hundred of these scum out of 250,000 Jews who are not Halachic Jews, but who were admitted to Israel as Jews under the Law of Return. Among the Halachic Jews there are other people with equally sick political ideas. Perhaps it is more in order to make some reasonable test of political loyalty before admitting anyone as a citizen. Having Norman ("Holocaust Industry") Finkelstein as a citizen of Israel would not be much better than having these people, would it? But then again, if Finkelstein or these people were facing death abroad because they are Jewish, would we deny them shelter?

 

The brilliant Israeli police, having failed to do anything about the problem for years, now set about to throw the book at the offenders. They were chagrined to discover that there is no law against having a picture of Hitler in your house, and now presumably some brilliant legislator will want to make one. Thereafter, every Israeli with an encyclopedia or a history book may be liable to spend time in jail for having a picture of Hitler in their house.  

 

Ami Isseroff