issue a halachic ruling forbidding Israeli Jews from rent
apartments to Israeli Arabs or Palestinians or to employ them.
In an interview with "Eretz Israel Shelanu"
on some delusional show (Our Land of Israel), a pamphlet
was being distributed in synagogues before Shabbat, Lior was saying
It was thus forbidden to hire Arab workers
in factories, hotels or anywhere," he said.
Lior could not be immediately reached. However, a spokesman
said this had been Lior's position for some time.
Other leading religious Zionist rabbis, such as Rabbi Eliezer
Melamed of Har Bracha and Rabbi Elyakim Levanon of
Eilon Moreh, have also called to ban all Arab labor
The ruling comes just a few days after Rabbi Haim Kanyevsky,
for what ever reason claims to be a highly respected haredi
spiritual leader and halachic authority based in Bnei Brak,
ruled it was forbidden to employ Arabs.
Legal Movements * Human Rights Groups in Israel say
"There is a phenomenon of rising racial incitement
against Arabs that distorts Judaism and is also illegal.
They are calling on the attorney-general to wake up and
act to enforce the law and prohibit calls like this.
"It is inconceivable that public figures,
including those who are salaried state employees,
continue to voice discriminatory exhortations unchallenged.
State officials need to intervene and make it clear
that these comments are illegitimate."
In a related story, Mossawa, the Advocacy
Center for Arab Citizens of Israel, released a
report Wednesday that found Israeli Jews to
be more supportive of the deportation of
Israeli Arabs.
The report warned that ideas such as population
exchange and racial segregation for Israeli Arabs
are gaining support among Jews. It also warned
that several Jewish politicians are gaining influence
based on a platform of racial hatred.
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