The Batzris provide gem after gem for bloggers low on content.
In a meeting that took place last night against the creation of a joint Jewish-Arab school in the Pat neighborhood of Jerusalem, several rabbis led by Rabbi David Batzri attacked the plan.
Comments by the rabbis who participated in the meeting… included a number of racial expression against Arabs.
Kabbalist Rabbi David Batzri said: "Establishing a school like this is a disgraceful, dirty deed. It is impossible to mix the pure with the impure. They are a blight, a devil, a disaster. The Arabs are donkeys, and we have to ask ourselves why didn’t God create them to walk on all fours. Well, the answer is that they are needed to build and to clean. They don’t have any place in our school.”
His son, Rabbi Yitzhak Batzri, also referred to the commentary that says “the Ishmaelites are like donkeys”, and said: "The Arabs are inferior. What do they want? They want to take our daughters. So, call us racists. Well, they are wicked, they are atrocious, they are dirty like snakes. There is pure and there is impure, and they are impure".
— Rabbis make racial comments against Arabs Walla! News, 10 Jan 2006.
Jane writes: "What a family! Ready or not here he goes and please don’t call him a racist as he is GREAT KABBALIST. "The Arabs don’t need schools. They are B’haymot (cattle). The reason they don’t have four legs is so they can work… " In reference to mixed education Arab and Jewish students, which we may object to on religious ground but what a choice of words. He claims that his view is based on traditional sources."
Lawrence blogs: "David and Yitzhak Batzri are hardly the voice of Israeli Judaism. If I recall correctly, it was Rabbi Batzri (the elder) who reacted to Jerusalem’s first gay pride parade by suggesting that all homosexuals should be put to death(!), so there is definitely a touch of the Pat Robertson about him. But Pat Robertson’s hateful, stupid remarks about Ariel Sharon don’t really have the real-life implications of David Batzri’s hateful, stupid comments about Arabs, do they? The first phase of the Road Map requires both sides to clamp down on incitement against the other, precisely because Israel and Palestine have more than their share of kooky imams and rabbis whose hate speech attracts a large audience, some of whom from time to time act upon that hatred by attacking – and sometimes killing – the untermenschen on the other side."
