I grew up in Canada in the forties and fifties and well remember the discrimination and totally supported the fight against it. But I had no quarrel with the anti-discrimination law which allowed landlords to discriminate when renting apartments in four plexes or less. In a way they considered it personal space rather than public space as in a whole apartment building. This legislation follows the same principle but expands the definition of personal space to small communities. I am all for it and more. A family such as this one should not be forced upon Jewish communities. It would be too off putting for the members of the community. There is no need for them to live in such communities. Let them live in Arab communities. I am against discrimination based on the color of one’s skin but not against discrimination based on the life style or religion of the applicants. Why force a secular or Muslim person on an orthodox community? I am against discrimination in the workplace but in favour of discrimination when choosing ones neighbours. Its not like those discriminated against have no where to live. Ted Belman
The law allows acceptance committees ‘to bar residents who do not suit the lifestyle and social fabric of the community,’ in communities with fewer than 400 families.
Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein supports the law permitting small communities to screen potential residents, with the state telling the High Court of Justice on Wednesday that the law is proportionate and that there is no basis for invalidating it.
Weinstein approved the state’s response on Wednesday to two petitions filed against the Admissions Committees Law. The state said the law balances the needs of small communities in the periphery to accept like-minded people who will preserve the towns’ social cohesion, with the obligation to assure that land is allocated in a non-discriminatory manner.
The law, passed last March, allows the use of acceptance committees “to bar residents who do not suit the lifestyle and social fabric of the community” only in communities in the Galilee and the Negev that have fewer than 400 families.
Social action groups castigated Weinstein’s reponse. The Association for Civil Rights in Israel, one of the petitioners against the law, said “The Admissions Committee Law discriminates against and humiliates people whose only crime is a desire to exercise their right to choose where to live.”
Other petitioners against the law are the Abraham Fund Initiatives, Adalah, the Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow and the Jerusalem Open House for Pride and Tolerance.
The petitioners argue that communities to which the law applies are not cooperatives and their population does not fit any particular profile other than sharing a desire for a high quality of life.
They said that the vague criteria applied by admissions committees are merely a way of keeping out “undesirables” such as the disabled, single mothers, Mizrahim, religious families or homosexuals.
The state said the law was an improvement over previous arrangements that were determined by the Israel Lands Administration, since it applies only to the Galilee and the Negev, and expressly states that communities cannot reject applicants for reasons of race, religion, gender or nationality.
Adalah, which advocates for Arab rights, described Weinstein’s stance as “extremely problematic” because it justifies a serious violation of the rights of Negev and Galilee residents.
According to Adalah attorney Suhad Bishara, this position allows screening committees at 475 communities in the north and south, which comprise 46 percent of all the towns and cities in Israel and 65 percent of its communal and agricultural settlements.
BethesdaDog Said:
same with a lot of blacks
@ BethesdaDog:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45KAm_pUEFE&feature=youtu.be
@ BethesdaDog:
Every community town village and city is a settlement. Yishuv in Hebrew.
List of Jewish villages depopulated during the Arab–Israeli conflict
1979 Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty
Israeli settlements
Avshalom
Atzmona
Dikla
Holit
Netiv HaAsara, Sinai
Nitzanei Sinai
Ofira
Sufa
Talmei Yosef
Yamit
A country that does not value her land, settlements and people will in the end lose them. It’s not reasonable to expect non Jews and non Israelis to value our settlements more than do Israelis and the many governments past and present. Like being more Catholic than the pope.
The veil hides the truth. We are talking about a political, militant, totalitarian movement garbed as a religion. The Nazis were a totalitarian political party.
beniyyar Said:
Good to put “settlements” in quotes. My position on “settlements” has evolved, and I’m now beginning to call them re-established communities, since it seems that, at least some of them, were simply recovered lands that belonged to Jews for many years, and were communities from which Jews were expelled in 1948. It was a very small period, just 19 years, during which the rightful owners were not able to return to their homes. Now, the world wants to call them Palestinian Arab lands which Jews are occupying. I think that the pro-Israel side has to modify the narrative publicly to make the true facts well known, so it is understood that the final status of all such lands is subject to negotiation, and, as of now, they are at most, “disputed.”
Just looking at that beast on the right in the picture, I think he should be wearing a burqa as well. He looks downright scary.
I am lucky to live in one of the “settlements” so we do not have to worry about some Arab trying to inflict himself on us anyway. And it is finally sinking in, even on some of the Left, that the Arabs are a dangerous and blood thirsty tribe, and that they will kill the Jewish Israeli Leftist just as soon as kill a settler like me!
Interesting issue, and Ted’s comments are particularly revealing to me, an American. This might run against the grain of many Americans with their political correctness and indoctrination against discrimination since the 1960s. Privately, once they understood the rationale, they might agree. While many Americans might talk the talk about supporting fair housing and antidiscrimintion laws, I’ll bet a lot of whites would want nothing to do with predominantly black inner-city areas. There are all kinds of people in my apartment building, including a some blacks, Asian Indians, an Iranian Muslim, some Chinese Americans. The overwhelming majority are Jews. Some of these are among the least pleasant to deal with. The husband from the Asian Indian couple, incidentally, is a retired Indian Army General. He absolutely reveres the renowned Jewish Indian General J.F.R. Jacob, who led the attack into East Pakistan, later to become Bangla Desh.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/a-jewish-war-hero-and-the-last-vestige-of-a-dying-indian-community/
Ever heard of Jews being allowed to move into Muslim villages? Let alone own property there.