Rising Anti-Semitism In Israel Meets State’S Blind Eye

The number of incidents with a neo-Nazi, fascist or anti-Semitic streak has increased dramatically over the past 15 years in the Jewish state, which prides itself of being a safe haven for Jews from all over the world, according to the Dmir Centre, which monitors and assists victims of such attacks. Although the Jewish state is no stranger to anti-Israeli attacks, a new trend has developed since the 1990s—anti-Semitic attacks carried out by “Jewish” citizens, says the centre’s chief Zalman Gilichenski. The vast majority of these incidents are thought to have been carried out by Russian nationalists who identify with anti-Semitic ideology, says Gilichenski. “Nowadays it has become a phenomenon,” says Gilichenski, a 40-year-old ultra-Orthodox who emigrated from Moldova in 1989. The nationalists came to Israel as part of the massive immigration wave from former Soviet states in the 1990s. While they are Jewish under Israel’s law of return—meaning that either they, one of their parents or one of their grandparents are Jewish—they do not consider themselves Jews. http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=52430

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