This guy doesn’t bother me any more than gentiles who call for their own countries to be free of Jews. The stronger you are in your particular identity, the more likely you are to be hostile to outsiders. That’s how group identity works. <\/p>\n
What this guy advocates is basic Torah. Torah does not want non-Jewish religions in the Jewish land of Israel, just as Saudi Arabia does not want Judaism and Christianity practiced in their holy Muslim land.<\/p>\n
There’s just as much hatred for Christians in Judaism as there is hatred for Jews in Christianity. That’s why God created different countries so that the different peoples of the world could develop their own culture without domination by outsiders. <\/p>\n
Haaretz<\/a>: Benzi Gopstein, leader of the extremist anti-assimilationist group Lehava, has called for the prevention of Christmas celebrations in Israel and the expulsion of Christians whom he compared to \u201cvampires.\u201d This guy doesn’t bother me any more than gentiles who call for their own countries to be free of Jews. The stronger you are in your particular identity, the more likely you are to be hostile to outsiders. That’s how … Continue reading
\n\u201cChristmas has no place in the Holy Land,\u201d Gopstein wrote in an article posted a few days ago on the Haredi website Kooker.
\nThe Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism has called on the prosecutor and the police to launch an investigation.
\nGopstein wrote in the article that he is disturbed by \u201cthe fall of the line of defense of the Jewish people against our deadly enemy for hundreds of years \u2013 the Christian Church.\u201d
\nHe said the Church had used \u201cthe maximum tools at its disposal to destroy the Jewish people,\u201d and that today \u201cthe Church has been defeated roundly when the Jewish people has one of the strongest armies in the world and they have no chance any longer of destroying our body.\u201d
\nHowever, Gopstein said, the Church has not given up. \u201cA last hope remains to those vampires and blood suckers \u2013 the mission. If Jews cannot be killed, they can still be converted.\u201d
\nGopstein said \u201cmissionary bookstores offer their products in front of everyone on Jaffa Road in Jerusalem, whole communities are crawling with missionaries, many businesses are run by them and are used by the mission, many cases using camouflage and without the knowledge of the employees.\u201d
\nGopstein said that the \u201cfear that every Jew felt, the disgust that we described above at Christianity \u2013 disgust that was the only thing that saved us from the dark days in Europe \u2013 has disappeared with the \u2018good life\u2019 of the democratic age\u2026and the missionary is on the prowl for prey.\u201d
\nGopstein ends his article by writing: \u201cI call on everyone to raise a cry and fight this corrupt phenomenon in the best tradition of Judaism, before we all, including those who observe the commandments among us, become a community of sycophants.\u201d
\n\u201cChristmas has no place in the Holy Land,\u201d he wrote, adding \u201cLet us remove the vampires before they once again drink our blood.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"