http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=191385

‘European Jewish communities are in serious danger’

“European Jewish Congress calls on governments to launch campaign against intolerance, anti-Semitism to remember “Never Again” concept. “

“The statement gave a recent example of a respected and government-funded Catholic school in Antwerp that hosted a ‘Palestine Day’, which was replete with anti-Semitic references and activities for youngsters.

One stall at the event was titled “Throw the soldiers into the sea” where children were invited to throw replicas of Jewish and Israeli soldiers into two large tanks, the organization highlighted.

The EJC, which is the democratically elected representative umbrella organization of European Jewry, is calling on European governments and the European Union to launch a campaign against intolerance and anti-Semitism, so to remind European citizens that the new Europe was established after the Second World War on the concept of “Never Again.””

http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-spine/78295/the-old-likud-idealists-against-the-thugs-the-new-israeli-right#comment-295460

Bella, I admire your website and post articles from it whenever I can. My views on Lieberman and Netanyahu are similar to yours.

I even agree that such an oath is unnecessary. Still, you have to agree that most countries do require some sort of oath for its newly minted citizens.

You yourself on your web site offered an example of why such an oath might be necessary:

“While yesterday I posted a preposterous suggestion made by Michelle J. Kinnucan that Jews were taking over spokesmen-ship of the Palestinian solidarity movement, today we have the revelation that Edith Lutz, one of the passengers of last week’s Jewish boat to Gaza, is a Christian who faked her conversion to Judaism in order to proclaim her solidarity with Palestinians. Can you beat it? I wonder how many others are out there clamoring to be chosen by The Chosen in order to choose Hamas.”

http://mideastparalleluniverse.blogspot.com/2010/10/funny-you-dont-look-jewish_08.html

Your post also shows that such an oath be made mandatory of all those offered citizenship and not just non-Jews since people have been known to convert to Judaism in order to undermine the Jewish State.

I trust that the example you offered and I am sure there are others will be used as evidence to mount a challenge to the oath at the Israeli Supreme court.

Where we part company is your view that the law is racist. It isn’t racist in the strict use of the term since Jews are not a race. Still, the law was badly conceived and hastily enacted. It should be challenged.

Noam: my Argentina story, eh? I have lived here for many years and longer than some of your 972 comrades have lived in Israel and I speak and read the language. I give credit to you for having first hand knowledge of Israel which I lack, even when I don’t agree with your views, and would appreciate the same courtesy.

Please, do occasionally engage in comparative politics. It’s intellectually healthy.

He is in favor of a one State solution which is to say of the erasing of the Jewish State from the world map since a single State with an Arab Muslim majority would merely create another Arab State in the region with the eventual cleansing of most Jews from the region.

It is ironic that Sheizaf opposes an oath in the name of “democracy” but is working for a non-democratic solution to the conflict since most Jews do not desire to live in single State as a minority.