Posted on 11/30/2014 11:43:37 AM PST by Olog-hai
A Tel Aviv synagogue was vandalized Sunday with graffiti reading, “In a place where the Jewish State Bill will be legislated, books will be burned.”
The vandals left a pile of burned books next to the wall that bore the graffiti. The books are not sacred texts.
The attack took place at the The Tel Aviv International Synagogue where Ariel Konstantyn of the Orthodox Zionist Tzohar Rabbis organization, originally of New York, serves as rabbi. Rabbi Konstantyn says the incident has been referred to the police but he views it as a “clear act of anti-Semitism.” According to the rabbi, the timing of the attack and the explicit graffiti seem to indicate that this was perpetrated by radical left-wing activists. …
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As an historian, I really hate it when people burn books.
As for the fact that the books were not holy to Jews, would suggest that the perpetrators were themselves Jewish.
Just a guess though.
That’s part of the line of thinking that currently attributes the burnings to leftists.
If it had been any other group, especially non-Jewish ones,
there would have been a body count associated with
the “attack”
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