City council campaign calls to ‘Judaize Jerusalem’

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

http://972mag.com/city-council-campaign-calls-to-judaize-jerusalem/79827/

A list of candidates running in the upcoming Jerusalem municipal elections is vying for (Jewish) votes with a slogan calling to “Judaize” the city. The phrase is associated with efforts by Jewish settlers to push Palestinians out of the city’s neighborhoods.

“Judaize Jerusalem,” read signs for the United Jerusalem list, headed Aryeh King, a right-wing settler notorious for trying to claim land for Jews in East Jerusalem. He directs the Israel Land Fund, whose mission is “reclaiming the Land of Israel for the People of Israel.”

Once you create a monster don't act with surprise when it acts like a monster.

King’s campaign to ‘Judaize Jerusalem’ is not sitting well even with some on the right. Former Knesset speaker and veteran Likud politician Reuven Rivlin called for the elections committee and state prosecutor to investigate whether the slogan, which he called “a disgrace” and “incitement,” constitutes a criminal offense.

Yes, yes he is shocked...Shocked(!) that some would verbalize what has been going on for a generation.

[oberliner]

1. Israel has extreme far RW political parties

Just like - um - every democratic (and not so democratic) country on the planet?

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

2. I am sure you are just as shocked that...

that some would verbalize what has been going on for a generation in Israel.

[oberliner]

3. Not shocked at all

It's been verbalized by these sorts of folks for a long time.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

4. While practice wholsale by Israel for over a generation now.