Israel- There's Always Room for More Bigotry!

1st:"Days after a group of rabbis urged Safed residents not to rent apartments to Arabs, former Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef reiterated a 500-year-old halakhic ruling barring the sale of land in the Land of Israel to non-Jews"

2nd: “'There is no doubt that Tel Aviv residents will rush to Judea and Samaria when their city becomes African,” Yaakov Katz of the National Union Party warned, using the [hard-right's] terms for the West Bank." as rabbis in Bnei Brak issue a similar ruling to the one issued in Tel Aviv prohibiting residents from renting out apartments to African immigrants.

3rd: "Young men have reportedly been roaming in and around Independence Park seeking Arabs to attack, trying to identify them by their accent. Haaretz has learned of two attacks over the past two weeks, and the stabbing of an Arab in July." With the discrimination of lynch mobs everywhere, they've already hospitalised a Chilean tourist by the name of Jose Toledo by mistake.

The Know-Nothings Rampant

Given the on-going Great Recession and the impact a Black Democratic President would predictably have upon certain elements within our nation, it is unsurprising that the Republican base would decide to double down on crazy. Still, of all loony GOP state platforms, influential Iowa seems to have a commanding position in the madhouse races.

Such fun and self-contradicting passages include:

1.18	We oppose the removal, by order of a Court or government agency, of fluids of nourishment from those who are either acutely or terminally ill.

vs. Statement of Principle #9 (emphasis in the original):

The individual works hard for what is his/hers. Therefore, the individual will determine with whom he/she will share it, not the government. No more legal plunder. Legal plunder is defined as using the law to take from one person what belongs to them, and giving it to others to whom it does not belong. It is plunder if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what that citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.

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