haaretz.com, Israel, Saturday, May 24, 2003 Iyyar 22, 5763
http://haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=296114&sw=neo-Nazi

By Lily Galili

Hitler copied from the Jewish law and Israel copied from Hitler's law

The Halacha, the Jewish religious law, is very precise when it comes to the question, who is a Jew: The one who is born by a Jewish mother is a Jew. Only "a Jew" is allowed under the "Law of Return" to settle in Israel.

"Famous Arthur Koest-ler put forward the thesis that Israeli laws of the Old Testament, directed against non-Jews in Israel, could have served as a mo-del for Hitler’s Nurem-berg Racial Laws."

Die Welt Dec. 4, 2004, p. LW 7

It appears that the number of Russian Jews who will emigrate to Germany this year will be larger than the number who come to Israel; the law under which Jews from the former Soviet Union can immigrate to Germany is close to the restricted definition of "Jewish under Jewish law." The Israeli Law of Return, however, is in fact based on the Nuremberg Laws, in which the Germans expanded the definition of who is Jewish in accordance with their own needs. ...

Not long ago, the first Israeli neo-Nazi Internet site was launched. ... "The White Israeli Union." ...

The members of the organization are "people who have pride in themselves and are sick of living among the dirty bastards." There is a section on "Who our enemies are," where all the "enemies" are extensively documented: the Jews, the Arabs, the immigrants from all Moslem republics of the former Soviet Union, the Moroccans, the foreign workers - in short, the "black-asses." ...

There is also a "codex" section of rules of behavior for members of the organization, among them respect for parents, but also "not to be miserly, because a miser is a Zhid," a derogatory Russian word for Jew, approximately equivalent to "Kike." And notably there is a rich section of jokes, the greater part of which is devoted to all kinds of funny incidents in concentration camps that end badly for the Jews. ...

The site resembles neo-Nazi sites in Russia, and strong connections exist between the activists here and the activists there. In the forum on the local site, there is an ambivalent attitude toward the fact that these proud white people are living in Israel. There are those who attack them for this and there are those who say that it is in fact important that some of "our people" be in the "Jews' state," too. The members who live in Israel explain that they want to defend the true Russian person on Israeli soil. They have a mission. ...

There is no doubt that these are young people of army age and a bit older. ... These are young people who came to Israel with their families under the Law of Return and have grown up here. ...

But if Israel becomes an arena for swastika graffiti, of cries of Zhid and neo-Nazi sites, then why come here of all places? ...

Over time he has accumulated hundreds of incidents that elsewhere in the world would be defined as "manifestations of anti-Semitism," but in Israel, the political system and the law-enforcement authorities relate to them with studied indifference. The range of incidents is wide: non-Jewish immigrants calling Jewish immigrants Zhid, an elderly Jewish immigrant woman in Jerusalem being beaten by a non-Jewish caregiver who calls her "Zhidovka," comments like "Hitler didn't finish the job," swastika graffiti found all the time in predominantly Russian-speaking neighborhoods, vandalism in synagogues and cemeteries.

In November, 2002, an immigrant social worker was called urgently to a school in Kiryat Menachem in Jerusalem to help children and families who were hurt in a terror attack on a bus in the neighborhood. Distressed and anxious, she made her way to the neighborhood by bus. Before she got off the bus, one of the passengers, a Russian-speaking woman, said: "This isn't enough; we have to finish you off."

Gilichinsky's attempts to enlist the help of the Anti-Defamation League, the president of Israel and the official site maintained by the State of Israel and the Jewish Agency have all been answered in the same spirit: "It's not our mandate. Our mandate is anti-Semitism around the world, not in Israel." However, newspapers in Europe, including the Russian Pravda, have been glad to publish comprehensive reports on the new phenomenon of anti-Semitism in Israel. ...

The voting patterns of this population that is hostile to Israel and the Jewish people that dwells here are scattered all over the political spectrum from right to left. ... it touches the most sensitive nerves in the national ethos: the Law of Return and the definition of the state on the "Jewish-democratic" axis. ...

Nazis and Hitler become surrounded by a halo of romanticism in the struggle against the new world. But the real problem is the Law of Return. A Jewish state according to Jewish religious law and a state built on the Law of Return as it stands both lead to the end of the state. ...

MK Yuri Stern of the National Union says that for a long time now his movement has considered it necessary to examine whether in existing legislation there are enough sanctions against anti-Semitism in Israel, but it has yet to do so.

"The time has come," he says. "There are enough people here with an anti-Semitic background, and when life is difficult and tense, these things burst out. ...

It must be understood that there are cases in which a verbal anti-Semitic reaction is a response to racism encountered here by non-Jewish immigrants, especially the young people whose lives the Israeli establishment embitters, pushing them to alienation from the state. In this tangle of nuances, on Israeli soil that is in any case racist, all these distinctions are critical in order to isolate from them the truly dangerous phenomena.

But above all, dealing with the phenomenon must begin with the demographic madness, whereby everyone is welcome to come here as long as he is not an Arab. Even if he hates the state, even if he hates Jews, he is considered a positive contribution to the needs of the demographic head-count.

National Socialism was much more appropriate for Zionists than modern "Jew-loving" Germany. National Socialism segregated, therefore Jews remained Jews:

»Dr. Joachim Prinz, a Zionist rabbi who subsequently emigrated to the USA, where he rose to be vice-chairman of the World Jewish Congress and a leading light in the World Zionist Organization (as well as a great friend of Golda Meir), published in 1934 a special book, Wir Juden (We Jews), to celebrate Hitler's so-called German Revolution and the defeat of liberalism: 'We want assimilation to be replaced by a new law: the declaration of belonging to the Jewish nation and Jewish race. A state build upon the principle of the purity of nation and race can only honoured and respected by a Jew who declared himself, he will never be capable of faulty loyalty towards a state. The state cannot want other Jews but such as declare themselves as belonging to their nation. It will not want Jewish flatterers and crawlers. It must demand of us faith and loyalty to our own interest. For only he who honours his own breed and his own blood can have an attitude of honour towards the national will of other nations'.« (Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Pluto Press, London 1994, p. 71 f.)