#Gilad Kariv

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We should know better than to ever mistake the bluster of leadership to be the unified voice of a nation. This is an excerpt from the Hanukkah message from R'Gilad Kariv, a HaDemokratim member of the Knesset. The idea that all of Israel, or even all of the political leaders of Israel are aligned behind Netanyahu's horrifying, self-serving violence and the dehumanizing rhetoric used to try to justify it is entirely false.

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You can see how much the Israeli government is committed to preserving "the only democracy in the Middle East."

This is the article from Haaretz.

The Shin Bet is saying this is pointless, will make their work harder, and teachers aren't a threat to anything.

Stood out to me:

In addition to the Shin Bet vetting, the bill includes a provision allowing the withholding of state funds to schools "in which there are or may be expressions of solidarity with acts of terrorism." It also proposes giving the director general of the Education Ministry expanded powers to fire, in an accelerated process, a teacher who "committed an act of solidarity with a terrorist organization" or "published praise, support or encouragement" of an act of terrorism.

For me the context is the way the definition of terrorism is vecoming broader (we saw protests against the government referred to that way).

Oshrat Elmaliah, Education for a Shared Society project coordinator at the Jewish-Arab civil-society organization Sikkuy-Aufoq, said that the purpose of the bill is to "intimidate and silence."

The rest, in case the article is paywalled:

The coalition led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is advancing a bill that would require the Shin Bet security service to vet Israel's teachers, even though the provision was originally removed from the draft legislation. The contentious provision in the bill was removed in the Knesset's Education, Culture and Sports Committee, in part due to opposition from the Shin Bet itself, among others.

Last week, the MK who initiated the bill and one its co-sponsors, MK Amit Halevi of Likud, raised the provision again during the committee's discussion of objections to the bill, to pave the way to submitting the draft law for approval by the full Knesset, even though the provision does not appear in the version that was approved by the committee.

Labor lawmaker Gilad Kariv asked to postpone debate on the bill, arguing that Halevi's reservation concerns a provision that is no longer in the draft law and therefore could not be submitted to a vote.

The Knesset House Committee is expected to decide on the issue Thursday.

The provision Halevi seeks to restore would require the Education Ministry to send the ID numbers of all teachers to the Shin Bet every year, for background checks to determine "suspicion of support or sympathy for terrorism," and perform investigations as needed. Halevi is seeking in effect to restore Shin Bet oversight of teachers, which was abolished in 2005.

The Shin Bet opposes restoring general checks of all teachers. During last year's discussions, the Prime Minister's Office made it clear that the agency, which it oversees, "does not consider teachers a threat, and it therefore does not carry out any analysis of them."

The Shin Bet also argues that having to conduct background checks on so many teachers, without receiving additional funding for this purpose, would divert resources from the agency's core security missions.

A representative of the Finance Ministry who attended a meeting of the Knesset Education, Culture and Sports Committee that discussed the bill last week told the lawmakers that if the background checks were only performed on a few dozen teachers and not to all of them – there are 200,000 teachers in Israel – there would be no budgetary implications.

The ministry also said this in response to a question from Haaretz, ignoring the wording of Halevi's attempt, in which he was proposing to first submit the ID numbers of all teachers in Israel to the Shin Bet. Only after this would an examination be held in cases of hints indicating support or sympathy for terror groups.

During the debate on the law by the previous Knesset, Israel Teachers Union Secretary General Yaffa Ben David strongly objected to the Shin Bet vetting provision. She argued that the law persecutes teachers and labels them as having a greater tendency toward terrorism than people in other professions. "Because of a few bad apples, we'll make a law for all teachers?" she asked rhetorically.

The bill sponsored by Halevi and MK Tzvika Foghel (Otzma Yehudit) bill deals with teachers and school that are suspected of expressing solidarity or support for acts of terrorism.

In addition to the Shin Bet vetting, the bill includes a provision allowing the withholding of state funds to schools "in which there are or may be expressions of solidarity with acts of terrorism." It also proposes giving the director general of the Education Ministry expanded powers to fire, in an accelerated process, a teacher who "committed an act of solidarity with a terrorist organization" or "published praise, support or encouragement" of an act of terrorism.

These provisions, which remain in the bill, also caused strong disagreement in the discussions. Opposition lawmakers noted the problem of giving the director general sole power to decide on a dismissal or revoke budgets. Civil society organizations pointed out that current law already permits dismissing teachers convicted or suspected of supporting terrorism, and that the bill proposes expanding this option without the required system of balances. Oshrat Elmaliah, Education for a Shared Society project coordinator at the Jewish-Arab civil-society organization Sikkuy-Aufoq, said that the purpose of the bill is to "intimidate and silence."

"From now on, every female Arab educator in the country will know that if she chooses to express a political opinion or hold a challenging dialogue in the school environment, she will be under the sole judgment of the Education Ministry director general and the minister, and could be accused of supporting terrorism and could lose her job, in the absence of the current protocol," Elmaliah said.

During the discussions on the bill, some of its wording was slightly softened, and many sections were canceled in the version that is now being submitted for discussion by the committee ahead of submitting it to the full Knesset. At last week's meeting, committee legal adviser Nira Lamay Rachlevsky said, "The Israel Bar Association still insists that the wording of the bill that is on the agenda be legally balanced." She said that it was necessary to balance the wording prescribing that budgets may be revoked from schools by establishing an expert consultation mechanism that will consider the seriousness of the acts."

At the discussions on the objections to the bill, Kariv said that it lacked various important components, such as prescribing the maximum allocation that could be revoked and the duration of the withholding. "When the education minister cuts 20 percent of the budget, can a school teach 20 percent less mathematics?" he asked. He slammed the bill's sponsors for "legislating laws so that we will take them to the High Court of Justice."

In March, Halevi objected to the state budget, but during the vote – despite objections by experts – the Education Committee distributed a new version of the bill that included her original sections but then withdraw her implied threat to oppose the budget and voted in favor of it. At the time, the Likud denied that there was deal linking the two things.

At the Education Committee meeting, Foghel insisted that the bill was necessary, adding: "The legal wrangling and the ability of the legal team to defend the bill before the High Court of Justice does not interest me. As far as I'm concerned, proportionality and balance carry no weight when it comes to protecting the State of Israel. It's unacceptable that a teacher or state-supported education institution would act against the state."

Halevi added, "This bill will prevent the continued fostering of an infrastructure that encourages terrorism and fans evil."

In a response to Haaretz, the Shin Bet said that "the security service's position is that this proposed arrangement is not required for security reasons and is disproportionate. Along with addressing the essential issue, a budgetary evaluation was performed and the results were transferred to professionals. Imposing the obligation to examine teachers on the Shin Bet without covering the expenses for doing so will divert resources allocated to the security service for the purpose of performing its core mission, and could harm its main operations, meant to foil terror attacks at this complex period, with the growing threats on all fronts."

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Ban Reverse Foreign Interference

“The Kohelet Forum, which is the main ultra-conservative thinktank that designed this judiciary reform, is fully supported by the leading Jewish donors of the American ultra-conservative camp,”...

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A sajtószabadság védelméért létrehozott lobbicsoport: „Vészhelyzetben vagyunk”

A sajtószabadság és a közszolgálati műsorszolgáltatás védelmére alakult lobbicsoport kedden (december 17.) ülést tartott a Kneszetben „A közszolgálati média privatizációjának következményei a sajtószabadságra Izraelben” címmel. Az ülést Gilad Kariv és Naama Lazimi (Munkapárt) kezdeményezte, és több újságíró, valamint ellenzéki képviselő vett részt rajta. Anat Szarguszti, az újságírók…

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Président de la Knesset au Médiateur : le député Kariv est suspecté de fuite de documents classifiés

Le président de la Knesset, Amir Ohana, a fait appel au conseiller juridique du gouvernement pour lui demander d’autoriser l’ouverture d’une enquête pénale contre le député de la Knesset, Gilad Karib (Parti travailliste) . Le soupçon, selon Ohana : Karib aurait divulgué à un journaliste des informations provenant d’une discussion classifiée au sein de la commission des affaires étrangères et de…

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Sono da ricovero

Forse bisognerebbe misurare il QI di chi si presenta alle elezioni o ricopre cariche importanti perché sembra che la capacità di apprendere, di stabilire commessioni siano assolutamente scarse in molte di queste persone le quali non riescono ad afferrare la relazione che esiste tra il numero crescente di infezioni tra le persone vaccinate e la scarsa efficacia delle vaccinazioni che comunque…

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Men are the problem in every religion

The Women of the Wall group gathered for the monthly Rosh Chodesh prayers at the Western Wall on Sunday. In the past, violent acts have been taken against the group for their egalitarian stance on prayer in the historic and religiously-significant site.

Reform rabbi and Labor MK Gilad Kariv, who has continuously expressed his support of the group and of the Kotel Deal, or Western Wall agreement,  which would have legally designated the southern end of the Western Wall for non-Orthodox prayer services, praised the group for their actions on Sunday.

"The Women of the Wall constantly remind us that there is more than one way to be Jewish. They will continue to do so until the Western Wall agreement is actualized," he tweeted.

Last week, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said he would send his cabinet secretary, Shallom Shlomo to meet with representatives of the Reform and Conservative movements to intervene in and advance the agreement. They are supposed to meet on Tuesday or Wednesday.

The meeting was proposed by Kariv.

Religious Zionist Party MK Itamar Ben Gvir arrived at the Western Wall area where the women were praying on Sunday morning in opposition to their presence and prayers services.

”Do not desecrate the Western Wall - it belongs to everyone except for you, you don't represent anyone, leave," he said.

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The Postman from Tom Kariv on Vimeo.

The adventures of a fragile Postman in his daily journey, wishing for some human interaction. "You could go anywhere in the mail"

Written, Designed & Directed by: Tom Kariv

Sound Design: Jon Steiner 2D Animation: Tom Kariv, Yuval Haker, Tamar Odenheimer, Jacqueline De Medice, Barak Rubinovitz 3D Animation: Nadav Meidan

My Graduation Film at the Visual Communication Department, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem. Guided by Gilad Seliktar. © Tom Kariv, 2019

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A Rabbi's Contentious Quest for Religious Pluralism in Israel

A Rabbi’s Contentious Quest for Religious Pluralism in Israel

JERUSALEM — When Gilad Kariv, an Israeli rabbi, heads to the Western Wall, one of the holiest places in Judaism, he often carries a Torah scroll that he hopes to give to a particular group of worshipers. It’s harder than it sounds. The worshipers are womenand therefore barred by Orthodox Jewish authorities from taking a Torah to the wall. As a lawmaker with parliamentary immunity, Rabbi Kariv can…

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Nouveau scandale au Mur du Kottel : le député Gilad Kariv profite de son immunité pour faire entrer un Sefer Thora chez les femmes

Mercredi matin, nouveau trouble au Mur du Kottel, où des rabbins réformés et les Femmes du Mur sont venus prier. Les participants sont venus au Mur pour la prière mensuelle “rosh chodesh”, avec eux se trouvait le député Gilad Kariv, qui accompagne souvent les “femmes du mur”, puisqu’il bénéficie de l’immunité parlementaire. Les agents de sécurité du Mur ont retardé l’entrée des femmes…

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I am in pain again, a peace conference, memories of social work and the hint of a police state8.3.2022

My dentist made me a device which I put on my teeth at night. I was worried I would not be able to sleep with it but it fits so comfortably that the first night I touched it one or twice to make sure I had not swallowed it!! That was a relief. But what is worrying is that the last two days I have again had discomfort and I don’t know where one goes from there. I dafke had coffee today with a  friend who suggested that I go to Hadassah to the clinic there and also that she would speak to her son who is an ear specialist.  The truth is I am confused with what I have done where but I  dread the thought that I will go back to the pain I had for two months some times before.

 We are going towards summer which I loathe. I remember years ago at Purim we had snow in Jerusalem. So maybe there is still hope for a slower move to summer.

 Israel did not vote at the UN for the resolutions condemning Russia. Interesting that Netanyahu and his rotten apple have been silent. Also Israel is refusing to allow refugees in unless there is someone who is prepared to pay a deposit for them that they will leave. Maybe the Minister of the Interior who is herself a fascist and racist should try to remember when we were refugees and no one allowed us in. The way we are treating the refugees from the Ukraine shows that we learned nothing from what happened to us. Yes history does repeat itself.  Read in the pdf how the right is supporting Russia. Some of those on the right are actually siding with Putin. Check out the PDF above. Unbelievable. They probably also support Trump.

 Two years ago when we were demonstrating outside Nofim against Netanyahu Gershon Baskin was at the island in the centre of the road next to the traffic lights when  a car stopped. A man got out of the car and rushed to Gershon who tried to head him off with a cardboard sign but he pushed and started punching him. The same man now has charged Gershon with attacking him and the case is to be heard tomorrow. It all depends on what  judge is present as we have already seen that even when a case is clear cut some of the judges who are very much on the right have acted against the victims.

The conference included all the  human rights movements and I was lucky to get a lift with Gershon Baskin who lives next to me so I did

 Next time on Rosh Hodesh I will go with the Women of the Wall even though I am  not religious. The religious attack them as you can read from the below. Our president who brings me more and more to disgust supports the religious and in the beginning under various pretexts persuaded Rabbi Gilad Kariv not to  join them. This week when they went the religious were spitting at them and you could see on the video, which I wish I could send you, young men and little boys spitting in the faces of elderly women who tried to cover themselves with their coats while religious girls so-called try to attack them. Also they sang to Gilad that Rabin is waiting for a friend and if you think they are not capable to it, just remember Rabin and who assassinated him. One of the pictures is of a tall young man stopping an elderly woman and spitting in her face. If this is what the yeshivot teach their followers I think anyone who contributes to them should think twice.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/thousands-of-haredim-try-to-stop-egalitarian-prayer-at-western-wall-clash-with-cops/

Officers prevent Reform, Conservative leaders from entering worship area with Torah scrolls, as thousands of ultra-Orthodox demonstrators converge on holy site to disrupt them

  I went down with Gershon Baskin to a peace conference which included all the  human rights movements and also, some distinguished guests from Ramallah and a youth delegation of Israeli Arabs. The conference was supposed to have been held at Sderot, a town, but the place where it was supposed to have been held received so many threats from the right that they were scared to hold it. Israeli democracy, the country of the freedom of speech….depending on who you are and what you have to say. The same thing happened 35 years ago and also when Women Make Peace marched there. A lot of speeches but more meaningful were the two girls who described what it had been like living under continual terror. The same is for the children in Gaza. The one girl told how she  had hated the            town and just wanted to get out of there but      you cannot take Sderot out of the girl.

 The guests from Ramallah…they are in danger on two sides,,,one from the IDf and the other from their own people  who do not want cooperation with Israel.

 There  I met Rabba Navah from the Reform synagogue. I had seen a request from Schechter to donate towards the Ukraine to the Jewish refugees and somehow that bothered me even though I know what many of you will say that charity begins at home. She however told me that her son was collecting goods to take to the Ukraine but not only to help Jews   and that they intended to try to bring a non-Jewish orphanage also out of the war zone so I contributed towards that.

 Nothing much to say about the conference. Just like so many others. But we have to keep going even if we always see  the same faces.

 Dancing by some very talented kids from Sderot. I do not know if I interpreted their dancing correctly but it felt like the face of suffering and fear

     And these two old ladies were maybe the face of hope as they danced together

  I came back with one of the women who had been a student at the library of social work and always refers to me as the legendary librariab who would never let them get away with anything….except hikding the books which everyone needed behind the shelf. But one thing I remembered because it was almost a prophecy. The second school of social work was in Givat Ram and, with the euphoria of the Six Day war…little knowing to what a disaster it would bring us the campus of Har Hazofim was renewed and we were due to be moved up there. I hated that place all my life that I worker there. But at that time once  you got tenure at work you stayed there and I valued the security which I had never known before. There was an interim period and the army had taken over the building so we were there together with them. I came to work one morning to find the entrance locked and banged furiously on the door. A young soldier came running down dressed only in his underpants and then some other bastard stopped me demanding my ID. Had this happened to me today I would have told him to go to hell.

 Once upstairs I phoned Professor Doron and told him what had happened.  I said to him that if I wanted to see a man in underpants I did not have to come to work to do so. He came in later to the library and was furious and phoned some army official. I remember he screamed to him that “we are not yet a police state.” Little did he know.

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The decision by the government is a reprehensible and embarrassing surrender to the pressures of the Haredi political parties which severely damages the basic core interests of the state of Israel and the Jewish people. The Prime Minister and his coalition partners actively gave their blessing to this anti-Zionist step that will hurt the relations between Israel and the Diaspora, and weaken the connection of millions of Jews to Jerusalem. We will continue to fight for the right of equality and freedom of religion at the Western Wall and every other site in the state of Israel, together with our many partners in Israel and throughout the Diaspora.  As a result of the incapability of the government we have petitioned the Israeli Supreme Court and we believe that it will defend the Jewish and Democratic values of the state of Israel in a more appropriate way than that of the government which failed in this disgraceful and terrible decision.

Rabbi Gilad Kariv, the President and CEO of the Israel Reform Movement spoke in response to the freezing of the Western Wall deal

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Thousands Of Girls At Kosel, Reform MK Brings Sefer Torah Into Women’s Section

Thousands Of Girls At Kosel, Reform MK Brings Sefer Torah Into Women’s Section

On the instructions of HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky and HaGaon Harav Gershon Edelstein, thousands of frum high-school girls went to the Kosel for Rosh Chodesh Shacharis on Friday morning in order to completely fill the plaza, preventing the Women of the Wall group members from holding their provocative service there. Reform MK Gilad Kariv (Labor) pulled his usual antics of joining the Women of…

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Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and some of his government attend its first cabinet meeting in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem June 13, 2021. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun

Knesset Claims West Bank is Part of Israel (A Total Bullshit) in Letter Condemning ‘Immoral’ Ben & Jerry’s Boycott

— By Morgan Artyukhina | July 28, 2021 | Sputnik

A 2020 deal involving the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and later Sudan and Morocco, saw Israel postpone its plans to annex parts of Area C, a region of the West Bank ruled directly by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). However, the many Jewish settlements that dot the West Bank are already de facto annexations, as Israeli law applies there.

The vast majority of parliamentarians in Israel’s Knesset signed a letter on Wednesday urging American ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s to reverse their decision to end their business ventures in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

According to the Times of Israel, members of almost every Knesset party, with the exception of the Joint List and United Arab List - two Arab factions - signed the letter. The letter was a project of Merav Ben-Ari, an MK from the centrist Yesh Atid.

The letter is addressed to Unilever, the British company that owns the Vermont-based creamery and was signed by 90 of the Knesset’s 120 members and describes the company’s move as “an immoral and regrettable decision that harms all residents of Judea and Samaria, as well as harms hundreds of Israeli workers, Jews and Arabs alike.”

Jewish vs Arab construction in the West Bank (the red and orange colours show Arab construction in Areas A and C; blue shows Jewish settlements in Area C, which is run by the Israeli Civil Administration)

​“We, the undersigned, constitute nearly all the Members of the Knesset, the Israeli House of Representatives, and hail from across the political spectrum from left to right, opposition and coalition members standing together against the shameful actions made last week by Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Holdings, to boycott selling products in Judea & Samaria,” the letter says, using the Israeli name for the territories comprising the West Bank derived from two Hebrew kingdoms that existed there nearly 3,000 years ago.

However, the next section then refers to the creamery’s move as a “decision to boycott towns and cities in Israel,” implying that the West Bank and East Jerusalem are not “occupied territories,” as the United Nations has described them, but parts of Israel itself.

After the letter was published, Yair Golan, a retired IDF major general who is presently an MK from the social-democratic Meretz party, reversed his decision, issuing a separate statement on Twitter saying, “after I signed I understood that the letter does not represent my position. Cities in Judea and Samaria are not cities in Israel.”

According to the Times of Israel, in addition to Golan, six other MKs in all walked back their signing of the letter on Wednesday, including Labor MKs Naama Lazimi, Efrat Rayten, Gilad Kariv, Ram Shefa and Emilie Moatti.

A Land’s Complex History

The territory called the West Bank has been many things over the last century: after it was seized from the Ottoman Empire by the British Empire at the end of World War I, the territory was part of Mandatory Palestine. London allowed increased levels of Zionist settlement on the land as part of an agreement with Zionist leaders to establish a Jewish state, even as Palestinian Arab resistance increased.

In 1947, the United Nations (Illegally Under the Pressure of the United States, UK and the West) split the territory into Israeli (An Illegal Regime for God’s Fucked-up People, the Zionist Cunts) and Legal Owner Palestinian States, but in the war that followed, Israel fought all its Arab neighbors and seized much of the territory set aside for Palestinians, with Egypt taking control of the Gaza Strip and Jordan seizing the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The Palestinian state-to-be disappeared, and with Israel refusing to allow Palestinian refugees who fled from the war to return to their homes in newly-formed Israel, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians remained in the West Bank under Jordanian rule, many of them in refugee camps.

Then, in the 1967 Six-Day War, Israel mounted a sneak attack on Jordan, Egypt and Syria in which it invaded and occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem, as well as Gaza, the entire Sinai Peninsula, and the Golan Heights. The UN condemned these seizures and the subsequent acceleration of Zionist settlement in the territories as violations of international law. In 1981, Israel established a civilian authority to rule over the West Bank called the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), a subsidiary of the Defense Ministry, but has never made a formal attempt to annex any of the West Bank except for East Jerusalem, which it declared in 1980 when it made the city its capital.

Last summer, then-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his intent to annex portions of the Jordan Valley, the easternmost part of the West Bank, but this was temporarily averted after the Trump administration orchestrated the so-called Abraham Accords, by which several Arab states agreed to normalize relations with Israel. The new prime minister, Naftali Bennett, took office last month and is an avid supporter of annexing what he calls Judea and Samaria. However, he has pledged not to do so as part of an agreement with left-wing and Arab parties to form a coalition government.

Ben’s & Jerry’s NYT Op-Ed

When Ben & Jerry’s announced on July 19 “it is inconsistent with our values for Ben & Jerry’s ice cream to be sold in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT),” using the UN’s name for the West Bank and East Jerusalem, it began a storm in which Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, denounced the decision as “terrorism” and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid called it a “shameful surrender to anti-Semitism, to [the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement], and to all that is wrong with the anti-Israel and anti-Jewish discourse.”

While the creamery has stuck to its guns, parent company Unilever reiterated it was “fully committed” to maintaining business dealings with Israel. On Wednesday, the founders of Ben & Jerry’s - Bennett Cohen and Jerry Greenfield - penned an op-ed in the New York Times defending the decision by the company over which they have no legal control, but also clarifying what the move was and wasn’t.

“The company’s stated decision to more fully align its operations with its values is not a rejection of Israel,” the two men wrote. “It is a rejection of Israeli policy, which perpetuates an illegal occupation that is a barrier to peace and violates the basic human rights of the Palestinian people who live under the occupation. As Jewish supporters of the State of Israel, we fundamentally reject the notion that it is anti-Semitic to question the policies of the State of Israel.”

“The decision to halt sales outside Israel’s democratic borders is not a boycott of Israel. Ben & Jerry’s statement did not endorse the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement,” they added, referring to the movement calling for a total refusal to buy Israeli products or products made in Israel or the UN-designated Occupied Territories.

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Ultra-Orthodox MK compares Reform Jews to pigs

Ultra-Orthodox MK compares Reform Jews to pigs

United Torah Judaism MK Meir Porush compared Reform Jews in general and Labor MK and Reform rabbi Gilad Kariv in particular to pigs during a speech he gave in the Knesset Monday evening.  Porush made his comments in reaction to the appointment of Kariv as chairman of the influential Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, and was joined in his denunciation of the Labor MK by fellow party…