Israeli rabbi: Coronavirus outbreak is divine punishment for gay pride parades

Meir Mazuz falsely claims Arab states spared, because they ‘don’t have this evil inclination’; modern Orthodox group blasts him for ‘inciting against the LGBT community’

By TOI staff

Ultra bigot Rabbi Meir Mazuz speaks at a press conference the 'Yachad' political party in Bnei Brak, March 27, 2019. (Yehuda Haim/Flash90)

An Orthodox Israeli rabbi has claimed the spread of the deadly coronavirus in Israel and around the world is divine retribution for gay pride parades.

The remarks by Rabbi Meir Mazuz, reported by the Israel Hayom daily on Sunday, drew condemnation from rights groups, including the Anti-Defamation League, which urged him to apologize.

An influential Sephardic rabbi, Mazuz is the former spiritual leader of the defunct ultra-nationalist and homophobic Yachad party, and is head of the Kiseh Rahamim yeshiva in Bnei Brak.

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On Saturday night he gave a talk at the yeshiva, during which, according to the report, he said a pride parade is “a parade against nature, and when someone goes against nature, the one who created nature takes revenge on him.”

Mazuz said that countries all over the world are being called to account because of their gay pride events, “except for the Arab countries that don’t have this evil inclination.” That was why, he claimed — falsely suggesting there has only been one case of infection in the Arab world — they have not seen a spread of coronavirus.

The outbreak in Iran, one of the most serious in any country, he explained as being due to the wicked ways of Iranians and “their hatred of Israel.”

According to the newspaper, Mazuz had earlier claimed Israel would be protected from the coronavirus.

“It is regrettable that in times like these when the whole world comes together to eradicate coronavirus, Rabbi Mazuz finds it appropriate to blame the virus’s outbreak on the LGBTQ community. We harshly condemn his statements and urge him to apologize,” the ADL’s Israel branch said in a statement.

The modern Orthodox Ne’emanei Torah Va’Avodah group also condemned Mazuz’s remarks.

“Using this time of need to incite against the LGBT community is unacceptable. Trying to get people to return to religion cannot come at the price of harming others,” it said in a statement.

Israel has thus far had 39 cases of coronavirus, including 14 new cases announced on Sunday night, but no deaths.

Mazuz is no stranger to controversy or hateful rhetoric. In November 2015 he claimed gay pride parades and other forms of “sinful behavior” were the reason terrorists murdered Eitam and Naama Henkin on October 1, 2015.

At a memorial event for the Henkins, Mazuz said that their shooting death at the hands of Palestinian terrorists had been a form of divine retribution.

In 2016 Mazuz attributed the collapse of a Tel Aviv parking garage that killed six people and an explosion that destroyed the Amos-6 satellite to Shabbat desecration.

Israel has two major gay pride parades each year, one in Tel Aviv and another in the capital, Jerusalem, which is billed as promoting tolerance.

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Homophobic violence and the Jewish Orthodox double standard

Homophobic violence and the Jewish Orthodox double standard

In Jerusalem less than a year ago, an ultra-Orthodox Jew named Yishai Schlissel, who had already publicly declared his loathing of homosexuals, wildly assaulted participants in a Gay Pride parade with a long kitchen knife. Before police could stop him, Schlissel had stabbed six of the “blasphemous” marchers, one of whom – a sixteen-year-old girl – later died from her wounds.

Schlissel claimed he was acting on behalf of the Torah – which forbids homosexual intercourse – but an Internet poll conducted by the ultra-Orthodox Kikar Shabbat website found that only 13% of respondents believed ultra-Orthodox Jews owed anyone an apology for the attacks, even though the community’s leaders had long condemned gays as criminals, or worse.

Speaking for the majority, Chaim Brizel – “the sexton of a Jerusalem synagogue,” who referred to the event Schlissel ravaged as the “Abomination Parade” – was almost contemptuous at the idea of remorse: “Religion should not have to apologize that crazy individuals exploit it for bad purposes…. All the talk about this in the media is a case of incitement against the ultra-Orthodox sector.” The Israeli ultra-Orthodox party Yahadut HaTorah did not even issue a public statement condemning Schissel’s deadly violence, “because a response could be misinterpreted to mean that we assume a degree of responsibility, when we assume no responsibility at all…. As representatives of our public, we will not respond to every criminal act, especially not an act committed by a single insane individual.”

So, when a Muslim security guard with a history of erratic threats opened fire earlier this month in a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, killing 49 people (before he himself was shot dead by police), members of the Orthodox Jewish community were quick to distinguish the killer’s actions from his religion – right?

Wrong.

Ari Fuld, a religious Zionist and assistant director of Standing Together, an organization “that supports IDF soldiers,” wasted no time publicly blaming Islam for the Orlando killings. Barely a day after the mass shooting, Fuld insisted on the website of the Orthodox Jewish Press that what happened in Orlando was “a radical Islamic terrorist attack”; he even condemned President Barack Obama for not identifying the crime as “Islamist,” and complained that “the vocal majority” of Muslims were not condemning the attack. (They were, but you’d never know it from Fuld’s column.) The President, he fumed, was part of “the enlightened ‘libertard’ culture that is running around protecting those who want you dead!”

Seconding Fuld in Jewish media was Martin Oliner, the Orthodox Jewish mayor of Lawrence, New York. How a Long Island mayor became an overnight expert on the motivation of a dead Florida Muslim is more than I know, but Oliner minced no words to the Israeli newspaper Arutz Sheva. The Orlando massacre could only have arisen from “a culture of Islamic radicalism” whose enemy was “the Judeo-Christian West,” said Oliner. “Even if it’s not ISIS,” he explained, “the idea that someone would kill 50 people in a terrorist attack, this probably has to do with Islamic terrorism.”

Please don’t ask me to define the word “libertard,” or to explain the arithmetic that automatically renders 50 victims the work of a Muslim. I’m more concerned with a different question.

Where are the Orthodox rabbis?

Where are the Orthodox leaders who screamed “incitement” when their critics pointed up the connection between rabbinic fulminations against gays and Yishai Schlissel’s deadly attack – why aren’t they denouncing the far more blatant incitement by Donald Trump against Muslims, supported by public statements from their own coreligionists, in the wake of the Orlando shootings?

Where are the rabbis who told us – as most did, though there were creditable exceptions – that no religion is responsible for its exploitation by a dangerously unbalanced individual? Back then they washed their hands of Yishai Schlissel with such words; when will they apply the same logic to a Muslim homophobe, rejecting the guilt-by-association fantasy promoted by the likes of Fuld and Oliner?

And finally, where are the rabbis’ voices against the horrifying revenge demanded by Fuld, who seeks a mass expulsion of Muslims, or Oliner, who in response to a mass murder calls for – mass murder?

Here are the Lawrence mayor’s exact words: “When you have a disease, you have to take the proper medicine, and a strong dose of it…. The US needs to bring the world together in a coalition to actively wipe out ISIS.”

So if Oliner has his way, the U.S. will answer one violent attack in Orlando by intensifying a bombing campaign that has probably killed hundreds of Syrian civilians already – one that will inevitably add to the number of people in the Middle East angry enough at Americans to consider shooting some of them.

Does the Orthodox rabbinate also embrace such brutal and dangerous militarism? I would like to say no, but within days of the Orlando tragedy Binyamin Rose, writing in the June 15 issue of the influential Orthodox weekly Mishpacha, had actually upped the ante. According to Rose, the Orlando attack was nothing less than a “clash of civilizations” that called for the “the use of overwhelming military force” to counter “the jihadists who have seized control of much of the Muslim world.” Hear that? – “much of the Muslim world.” Collectively, the Fuld/Oliner/Mishpacha approach amounts to carte blanche for a war of annihilation against a vast array of people who – one would think – have already suffered more than enough.

To me, as an Orthodox Jew, the right course seems painfully self-evident. We need to speak out, clearly and forcefully, against all hate speech leveled at gays. And we need to be equally clear in our defense of Muslims, the only population in the U.S. facing more popular demonization than gays are.

If we don’t, we will be aligning ourselves with the forces of hate that, in today’s combustible circumstances, could easily consume much more than an Orlando nightclub – in Damascus, in Gaza, in Nablus, just to start with. And if Jewish leadership isn’t awake to this basic fact, so much the worse for all of us.

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Jewish Racist Rabbi | Goyyim Are Murderers And Thieves, Blacks Might Have Killed Jews Over Obama Loss

Satmar Rebbe: Goyyim Are Murderers And Thieves, Blacks Might Have Killed Jews Over Obama Loss

“President Obama is from the Children of Ham [the biblical Noah’s Black  son], and in America there are many millions from the same race as  Obama. [Make no mistake, the] Children of Japheth [another son of the biblical Noah who was white; White Europeans, Caucasians] are not  any better than the Children of  Ham. Like all other goyyim, there are very many murders and thieves among them.”

Originally published at 10:39 pm CST 12-5-2012. Updated 10:32 am CST 12-6-2012 to reflect this correction: “Like all other goyyim, there are very many murders and thieves among them.”

This is a three-and-a-half minute excerpt from Rabbi Aharon Teitelbaum’s speech last night at the massive Satmar dinner in Williamsburg.Please click the gray bar to listen:

Rabbi Aharon Teitelbaum 12-4-12

What follows is a free translation done by a hasid. I Put that free translation into standard American English (whenever possible) to make it more easily understandable:

The president [Obama] is from the Children of  Ham [the biblical Noah’s Black son], and in America there are many millions from the same race as him.
[Make no mistake, the] Children of Japheth [another son of the biblical Noah who was white; White Europeans, Caucasians] are not any better than the Children of Ham. Like all other goyyim, there are very many murders and thieves among them.

Jews are in exile here [in America]. We are spread out in between the goyyim to earn our livings.

We should think about what would happen if the results in the US elections would have been different and President Obama would have had a downfall and lost.

It would now be known to whole world that Jews campaigned [against Obama and] that caused Obama to lose.
What kind of hatred against Jews [would have come from that]?!?! It would have caused massive sinat Yisrael [hatred against the Jewish people], [hatred] against thousands of Jews living here in US! The results for thousands Jews in all 50 States would have been terrible!

Simply put, the head of the Zionist regime [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] made Jewish blood hefker [free, connoting “Jewish blood is cheap”] in America. [Through his open support for Mitt Romney is risked many Jewish lives].

The Jews have not forgotten the pogroms in Crown Heights when the blood of Ya’akov Rosenbaum, may God avenge his blood, was spilled [by Blacks]!
With so many goyyim [non-Jews], [what Netanyahu did] is a great danger [to Jews] that has no end!

The politics that the state’s [Israel’s] prime minister does with the leaders of the Nations of the World, and what he did in Gaza – the provoking of conflict! – is very terrible!

It is very surprising that his religious [coalition] partners agree with him. They practice shtika k’hoda’ah [silence is equivalent to agreement] and give him endorsement with full mouths…

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 “Any trial based on the assumption that Jews and goyim are equal is a total travesty of justice” — Prominent Jewish religious fanatic, Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh

 

Jewish Day School Textbook Challenged by Muslim Group for Vilifying Muslims

Friday, November 23, 2012

A Canadian Islamic organization is accusing a Toronto-area Jewish day school of using a textbook that vilifies Muslims.

In a Nov. 19 letter to Jewish groups, the Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR-CAN, charges that a textbook used at the Joe Dwek Ohr HaEmet Sephardic School employs “inflammatory and hateful terms in describing Muslims.”

CAIR-CAN alleges that the book, “2000 Years of Jewish History,” describes Muslims as “rabid fanatics” with “savage beginnings.”

“The entire chapter devoted to Islam presents a pernicious and extreme portrayal of Muslims and the Islamic faith. The material further denigrates the Prophet Muhammad as a ‘rabid Jew-hater,’ and falsely portrays Islam as inherently anti-Semitic and devoted to hating Jews,” the group said in its letter to the Friends of the Simon Wiesenthal Center For Holocaust Studies and the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, or CIJA.

It said the text is used in grade 7 and 8 girls’ classes at the Orthodox Jewish day school and “leaves impressionable young Jewish readers with a sense of suspicion and even intolerance towards their fellow Canadians.”

The group wants the Centre for Jewish Education of UJA Federation of Greater Toronto to investigate.

No one from CIJA, the Wiesenthal Center or Ohr HaEmet responded to JTA’s requests for comment.

CAIR-CAN’s salvo comes on the heels of an investigation by Toronto-area police of a local Islamic school. Earlier this month, police cleared the school of hate crimes allegations following a complaint by Jewish groups. York Regional Police found that teaching materials at the East End Madrassah attacked Jews and “suggested intolerance,” but were not criminal.

Part of the madrassah’s curriculum encouraged boys to keep fit for jihad, compared Jews to Nazis, and referred to “Jewish plots and treacheries.”

The complaint “prompted change” at the madrassah, noted CAIR-CAN in its letter, adding that the group “welcomes that change.”

When police began their probe, the Toronto District School Board,  which rented space to the school, revoked its permit and the madrassah had to relocate.

JTA, 22 November 201

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Hate Zealot Pamela Geller’s Fixation With Sandra Fluke’s Vagina

Pamela Geller‘s Fixation With Sandra Fluke’s Vagina

Pamela Geller: ‘I’ve Had It Up to Here With Sandra Fluke’s Vagina’

Crazy hater just keeps ranting

Thanks to:- Charles Johnson

After his repellent misogynistic comments about law student Sandra Fluke, almost all of Rush Limbaugh’s major advertisers have dropped his show like a hot potato.

In response, a weird hush has fallen over most of the right wing blogosphere; they seem to have realized that when 32 major advertisers bail out on Rush Limbaugh, it might not be very smart to keep trying to defend him.

But who ever accused anti-Muslim hate group leader Pamela Geller of being smart? She’s still in auto-hate mode, spitting venom at Sandra Fluke like a deranged street person.

Today, Geller triples down on her hate speech, calls Sandra Fluke a “fraud” and a “pig” and “an embarrassment to decent young women,” says she was “planted” by nefarious hidden forces (probably Obama himself), and then offers a freakishly bizarre analogy about Wal-Mart handbags vs. Hermes handbags to explain … something.

FRAUD FLUKE’S OBAMA-ENDORSED VAJ!!!!! – Atlas Shrugs

  

SKELETOR‘S TWIN – PAMELA GELLER

Update: I removed the photo that Atlas reader Leon Blue sent from daleygator via facebook — looks photoshopped.

I have had it up to here with Fluke’s vagina. Seriously. Clearly she’s a plant. I don’t have to exalt or honor women who debase and lower themselves to meat status. I will not honor this pig. I will not teach children to debase themselves. I will not teach children that this is “empowerment.”

I explain it to young girls this way. Go into any Wal-Mart or Target. There are hundreds of black handbags for sale in bins, hung on display walls, all cheap or moderately priced, and they can’t give them away.

Now go into Hermes. There is one black, gorgeous, impossible to get, crocodile Birkin bag. There are waiting lists for this bag. No one can get that bag. It costs a fortune and still everyone wants that bag.

Be that bag.

I despise the women’s movement. I despise what they have done to women (and men). Just look at Fluke. She is a full-fledged activist and an embarrasment to decent young women…

And worse, the President of the United States called her to congratulate her and tell her how proud he was of her. Who has done more harm to the status of American women then [sic] feminists? How they destroyed our standing, respect, and reverence we held not forty, fifty years ago.

Oh, and that photo she removed when she figured out it wasn’t actually a BOMBSHELL scoop, but a lame photoshop job? Here it is:

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Gay Hating Rabbi Uses Intolerant, Hitlerian Rhetoric To Demonise LGBT People

A petition has been created calling on Monash University to sever its ties to controversial Melbourne-based rabbi, Dr Shimon Cowen, following a recent speech where he called for anti-bullying and diversity program, Safe Schools Coalition Victoria (SSCV), to be disbanded while also linking homosexuality to incest and bestiality.

Cowen’s comments have angered LGBT activists as well as colleagues at Monash University, while the peak Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) moved quickly to note that the “highly respected” rabbi’s words were not representative of the wider Jewish community.

Cowen – said to be a leading bullying expert and an Associate at Monash University’s School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies – used a speech to anti-abortion group Life Vote to claim that since the “dawn of civilization” opposition to homosexuality was “normative” and that current anti-bullying programs in schools were akin to indoctrination.

“Here, as part of its program, [SSCV] requires schools to teach the acceptability of homosexual behaviour as a norm.

“By so doing, it flies in the face of over 3000 years of religious and cultural tradition since Sinai,” Cowen said.

“In terms of the world religions and world civilization, it is teaching something which is a moral wrong and fundamentally unethical.

“The notion that every child in a school, of which a great many come from religious backgrounds which prohibit homosexual behaviour, must be taught in the school from infancy that homosexual behaviour is equally normative is coercive.”

The speech was later reprinted as a journal article for the conservative Australian Family Association, which counts the likes of former tennis champion Margaret Court and Dame Elisabeth Murdoch as patrons of the organisation.

SSCV co-ordinator Roz Ward told SX that Cowen’s views were highly inflammatory.

“It sounds like something you might have heard in the 1950s,” she said.

“The program has been widely well received and is having an impact in schools to reduce bullying and I just think these kinds of comments are unfounded.”

Last week, members of Monash University’s Faculty of Education also released a statement calling on the university to explain Cowen’s continuing association in light of his public pronouncements.

“Cowen’s views are based on neither historical record nor credible scientific literature,” faculty members wrote.

“We condemn the uninformed opinions expressed by Cowen, which are foreign to the goals, values, and standards of scholarship we proudly represent as researchers and teachers.”

A spokesperson for Monash University said that while it “encourages expert academic views” it did not endorse the comments made by Cowen (pictured), who happens to be the son of the recently deceased former Governor-General Zelman Cowen.

“Monash University reiterates its respect for the dignity of all human beings, regardless of sexual preference,” the spokesperson added.

ECAJ meanwhile gave its full backing to the anti-bullying programs.

“[Cowen’s] view that homosexuality is an illness does not represent a general view of the Jewish community,” ECAJ executive director Peter Wertheim said.

“The ECAJ reiterates its and the Australian Jewish community’s strong opposition to bullying at school on any grounds including sexual orientation, and welcomes any government program designed to counter-act bullying that has the support of victims and educators.”

Michael Barnett, convener for Aleph Melbourne, a support group for LGBT people of Jewish background, told SX that the public censure Cowen’s comments received was encouraging.

“He needs to understand that people who impose their religious beliefs on same-sex-attracted people are doing more harm than good, and that it actually adds to their suffering, misery and is completely unacceptable,” Barnett said.

Barnett, this week, has also created a petition seeking a firm commitment from Monash University Vice Chancellor Professor Ed Byrne that the university will not associate with academics holding blatantly homophobic views.

“If you cannot uphold this, especially in cases of academics with a known history of such intolerance of homosexuality, you must sever ties with these academics immediately,” Barnett said.

The continuing controversy over Cowen’s comments come after it was revealed to SX that the organisation of Australian Jewish Psychologists (AJP) turned away numerous requests from Jewish LGBT activists to make a public announcement in support of marriage equality.

Dr Nicky Jacobs, spokesperson for AJP, told SX that the group does not endorse or put out public statements.

“We provide psychological response and we act as a resource to the community about psychological trauma.

“I am very happy to state that as an individual, I support marriage equality, however I cannot speak on behalf of AJP members,” Jacobs said.

“Both the American and Australian peak psychologist groups have supported marriage equality on the grounds of ‘improving mental health’ and as all our members are registered psychologists, many of whom are Australian Psychological Society (APS) members, I am sure the APS support would adequately cover AJP’s relevant members.”

Roy Freeman, from Dayenu, a Sydney-based support group for LGBT people of Jewish heritage, told SX that he was “deeply disappointed” that AJP had chosen not to speak up on the topic or the high rates of suicide amongst same-sex attracted people.

“It appears that they aren’t interested in the mental health of the community,” he said.

“It saddens me that as an organisation, they are not willing to take a stand on this issue.”

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