1 janvier 2012, 08:18
Est-ce que les images de la Shoah sont trop offensantes ?Par Nathan Jeffay
Des Juifs ultra-orthodoxes juifs portaient des étoiles jaunes et les tenues des camps de concentration lors d'un rassemblement à Jérusalem.
Les manifestations actuelles contre l'exclusion des femmes de la sphère publique par certains haredim, et les contre-manifestations par des activistes Haredim qui disent qu'ils sont calomniés par les critiques, c’est ce dont tout le monde parle en Israël. C’est un sujet suffisamment provocateur.
Et puis vint la référence Holocauste pour en faire encore plus. Dans la nuit de la Saint-Sylvestre, 1500 haredim ont protesté à Jérusalem contre ce qu'ils appellent «l'incitation» des Israéliens laïques contre eux. Certains d'entre eux ont également endossé des tenues avec des étoiles jaunes, reproduisant celles des camps d'extermination nazis.
Le Jerusalem Post publie une photo de certains manifestants portant les étoiles.
Il cite l'un des manifestants qui déclare : «. Ce qui se passe est exactement comme ce qui s'est passé en Allemagne» Il a précisé: "Cela a commencé avec l'incitation et a continué par différents types d'oppression. Est-il insultant que nous portions ces étoiles? Absolument, et ça fait mal aux gens de voir cela, mais c'est la façon dont nous nous sentons en ce moment, c’est-à-dire empêchés d'observer la Torah de la manière dont nous le souhaitons. "
A présent, le lendemain de cette soirée, un député a déjà proposé une loi visant à interdire l'utilisation des étoiles jaunes et des tenues de le Shoah par des manifestants. «Nous avons été témoins hier soir, pour un acte cynique et le dénigrement des extrémistes mêmes qui crachent sur les enfants et les soldats maudissent tout simplement parce qu'elles sont femmes", a déclaré le député Kadima Yoel Hasson . Cela ramène à la surface la vieille question - où a sévi le philosophe Yeshayahu Leibowitz qui a inventé le terme «judéo-nazis» pour les colons - de la façon dont il est acceptable de s'approprier la Shoah en Israël.
Est-ce que les limitations comme celle de la proposition de loi de Hasson nécessitent une intervention morale au nom du bon goût ? Ou bien est-ce faire taire les discours légitimes d'une minorité qui sent la façon dont elle est traitée comme rappelant celle vécue par ses ancêtres?
Traduction du texte suivant
Are Holocaust Images Too Hurtful ?By Nathan Jeffay
Ultra-Orthodox Jews wore yellow stars and concentration camp outfits at a rally in Jerusalem.
The ongoing protests against the exclusion of women from the public sphere by some Haredim, and counter-protests by Haredi activists who say they are maligned by critics, have everyone in Israel talking. The subject was quite provocative enough.
And then came the Holocaust reference to make it even more so. On New Year’s Eve night, 1,500 Haredim protested in Jerusalem against what they termed “incitement” of secular Israelis against them. Some of them also donned mock outfits from Nazi death camps and yellow stars.
The Jerusalem Post publishes a picture of some protestors kitted out in stars.
It quotes one of the protesters saying: “What’s happening is exactly like what happened in Germany.” He elaborated: “It started with incitement and continued to different types of oppression. Is it insulting that we wear these stars? Absolutely, and it hurts people to see this, but this is how we feel at the moment, we feel we are being prevented from observing the Torah in the manner in which we wish.”
Now, the morning after the night before, a lawmaker is already proposing legislation to ban the use of yellow stars and Holocaust outfits by protestors. “We were witness last night to a cynical act and disparagement from the same extremists that spit on children and curse soldiers simply because they are women,” said Kadima lawmaker Yoel Hasson. This brings back to the surface the old question — rife when philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz coined the term “Judeo-Nazis” for settlers — of how it’s acceptable to appropriate the Holocaust in Israel.
Are limitations like Hasson’s proposed law a necessary and moral intervention in the name of good taste. Or is it silencing the legitimate discourse of a minority that feels its treatment is reminiscent of that experienced by its ancestors?
[
blogs.forward.com]
L'article du Jerusalem Post cité dans l'article précédent publie plusieurs photos caractéristiques de l'état d'esprit inculqué à ces jeunes haredim. Habillés en costume de déporté à étoile jaune, placés dans un semblant de cage (non fermée !), ils prennent des mines de personnes brimées et persécutées. Ils brandissent des pancartes avec les inscriptions "Les Juifs ne sont pas sionistes", "Les sionistes ne sont pas juifs, ils sont racistes".
Ils se comparent aux millions d'enfants qui ont eu pour dernière étape les camps de la mort.
Je trouve cela scandaleux, ignoble et inadmissible.
L'article du Jerusalem Post
Ultra-Orthodox protest ‘incitement' and 'hatred’
By JEREMY SHARON AND MELANIE LIDMAN
31/12/2011
1,500 haredim protest in J'lem, wear yellow stars reading "Jude"; Livni slams invoking of Holocaust; Yosef denounces extremism.
Approximately 1,500 ultra-Orthodox men gathered at Shabbat Square in the capital’s Geula neighborhood on Saturday night to protest what they called the “oppression” and “incitement” of the “secular community” against them.
Dozens of men wore yellow Stars of David on their jackets with the word “Jude” in the center, and banners bearing slogans such as “Zionists are not Jews” and “Zionism is racism” were paraded at the rally.
“Orthodox Jews demand the presence of international forces to protect them,” another sign read.
Police arrested two protesters when dozens tried to block Bar-Ilan Street and throw stones. Police dispersed the crowd.
Public attention focused on the ultra-Orthodox community last week following a documentary that Channel 2 broadcast, highlighting abuse that haredi extremists were directing at national-religious schoolgirls in Beit Shemesh.
At Saturday night’s demonstration, young children were brought onto a stage erected in front of the square, wearing black-and-white-striped clothes and bearing the yellow Stars of David on their lapels.
“What’s happening is exactly like what happened in Germany,” said one man wearing a yellow star, who gave his name only as Moishe. “It started with incitement and continued to different types of oppression. Is it insulting that we wear these stars? Absolutely, and it hurts people to see this, but this is how we feel at the moment, we feel we are being prevented from observing the Torah in the manner in which we wish.”
The protest was also called in support of Shmuel Weisfish, an activist in the ultra-Orthodox extremist group known as the Sikrikim (Sicarii), who was convicted of assault and other offenses and will begin a two-year prison sentence on Sunday.
Directives from the stage urged protesters not to speak with the press, and at one point men gathered around a camera crew in an attempt to force them to wear yellow stars.
The crew retreated to a police cordon.
Angry crowds also followed uniformed police, shouting at them and calling them “Nazis.”
“It’s like how it started with the Nazis – very slowly,” American yeshiva student Salomon Hoberman said, defending the use of the yellow stars.
“They’re separating us from the Jewish people because we’re following the way of the Torah. They hate us because we’re going the Jewish way.
And there’s only one Jewish way.”
A haredi woman, who declined to give her name, said, “We didn’t come to demonstrate, we came to show our power, and that our power is forever.”
The sentiments that several of the protesters expressed to The Jerusalem Post bore a central theme of religious coercion against the ultra-Orthodox community.
“How can this country be called a democracy when they are trying to force us to adopt their culture and their standards?” asked Shimon Levy, a young haredi man from a veteran Jerusalem family. “We were here before the state [was established] and yet there are people telling us what we may and may not do in our own neighborhoods.”
He asserted that “the hatred and incitement being directed at us because we do not want to take on the ethical standards of the secular [community] is simply intolerable.”
Opposition leader Tzipi Livni on Saturday night criticized the haredi protesters for wearing yellow stars during the protest.
"With all due respect to the right of groups in the haredi community to protest, and that is their elementary right, to put a yellow star on their children does serious injury to the memory of those killed in the Holocaust," Livni stated.
"I hope that the heads of the haredi public condemn these acts, because they hurt the common cause that all of us still share," she added.
Meanwhile, Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef on Saturday addressed tensions between secular and haredi communities in Israel, saying in his weekly sermon, "We do not hate the secular people, but rather love them, we bring them closer."
Yosef spoke out against extremism, stating that "there are haredim carrying out forbidden acts, that our Torah forbids, they must be denounced."
Jpost.com staff contributed to this report.
[
www.jpost.com]
Pièces jointes: