“All human rights activists should be imprisoned and transported to camps we are building.”
It’s a stark quote made all the starker by coming during an immigration committee meeting in the Israeli parliament, the Knesset. The quote is from MP Yulia Shamalov-Berkovich, a member of the ruling coalition with the Kadima Party.
Israel has been caught up in the latest of its myriad imagined “existential threats” lately, this time centering around illegal immigration. Black migrants are the targets, and in Tel Aviv MPs whipped up a riot that had ralliers beating Africans in the streets.
Since then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for the mass arrest of the black “infiltrators,” saying that they could “cause the negotiation of the State of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state,” even though their numbers are estimated at less than 1 percent of Israel’s overall population. Israel started building prison-work-camps based on a 2009 proposal, that would have them trading manual labor for food and “shelter” inside the prison.
And this is where Shamalov-Berkovich enters into things, as a member of the “Lobby for Citizens Affected by Illegal Infiltrators.” She blasted human rights groups today on the floor of the Knesset who have been criticizing both the camps and the riots, terming them “hypocrites” and insisting that given half a chance they’d create a massive work camp system of their own to imprison the Ultra-Orthodox. “I would imprison them all for incitement and for pitting Jews against Jews,” she added.
Shamalov-Berkovich insisted that Israel’s illegal blacks “are living like animals” and that they are “compromising the security of the state and its citizens.” Even given the Israeli government’s extremely far-right positions, it would be politically difficult (and diplomatically costly) for them to mass arrest every single human rights activist and force them into work camps.
Wow- I sure hope they put up the proper signage at the gates of the new camps. "Arbeit Macht Frei" comes to mind.
"Wow" was the first word out of my mouth, too. Let go the hate, my Jewish friends.
How about hanging war criminals and human rights violators. This would autumatically solve the human rights activists' issue.
Nathan,
I'm letting this comment stay but anything that sounds like anyone is suggesting that 'official' should be killed…fill in assorted disclaimers, and legal implications re: NDAA.
Come on Angela I see your point but your president has his kill list of other officials without any disclaimer.
The Jews blamed the German people for what happened under Nazi rule and so they too will be held responsible for what happens under Zionist rule.
I consider myself a Zionist, since as a Christian I want the best for the nation of Israel and the Jewish people: sustainable independence and peace.
What these people are doing is NOT zionism, it's neoconservative trotskyism. It's militant fascism.
It is exactly what has been zionism. You do not understand the truth. I recommend that you read the diary of Moshe Sharet who was the second prime minister of Israel. They formed transfer comities in Europe to get rid of the arab population. They had not even arrived in the area when they were planning to do the people who own the land in. Every single leader of the zionist movement in Israel were clearly bigots and out and out racist. They cry about how they were treated in the middle east but it was the arabs who gave them a place to live after being attacked by the people in their old nation. I think you would change your mind when you learn that this comment would be the normal. I know you like to think of the movies produced showing that wonderful guy with the fiddle. The truth is the original zionist were the stern gang who pushed dead bodies down the drink wells in the local arab communities so to deny the locals water in the desert. Another favorite game of the stern gang was setting fire to an arab home and then shooting anyone who felt it better to try leaving over burning to death.
It was the stern gang lead by Ben Gurion who murdered 99 british officers and wives in the king david hotel.
The history of zionist is exact the same as the person in this story express. BTW the reason why they have a problem with the blacks today is they would not hire an arab and they abused the cheap labor from Asia so they turned to another group to exploit and they would not stand for it.
It is clear that israel faces a major problem with this mess. They will try but the world is watching and the zionist do not like daylight.
That's ironic, Chris, because Zionism IS Trotskyism with all the fascist overtone as icing on the cake. You, as a Christian, have no business being a Zionist if you know better and if you truly have any faith in your God.
Texas Chris, have you ever asked yourself the question; why you guys are the only christians in the world that support zionism which gave us such a criminal state? You can like jewish people all you want, I have more than a few good friends too, but you cannot condone terrorism and what they do to Palestinians. Then, do not forget that old tired cliche of the ONLY DEMOCRACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST, which makes them all responsible and in agreement with their leaders. This venomous woman is a member of their parliament and I am sure she speaks for many of them.
Do you seriously believe Jesus PBUH will condone killing for any purpose. wake up from your brain washing by your Scofield Bible and be a good christian like the rest of the world.
Why I do not read any of this on western media? Imagine the outrage if a Palestinian or Arab leader like Assad said this>
Why don't they just shoot them, you know, sorta like Palistinian children?
In the future, I am not buying any soap made in Israel – no telling what it will be made from. No lamp shades either.
It is a disgrace to any human to buy anything made in that —— little state.
"Camps" – concentration camps? – how soon will the ovens be built by the Zionists?
Israeli Auschwitz! The transition is just about complete. Israelis have become all that they profess to despise. Welcome to the Fourth Reich Israeli version.
Who says that Zionists were not responsible for the Gulags and other atrocities if it led to their ultimate goal? There were many useful idiots within the Soviet Union who gladly imprisoned their countrymen.
Perhaps some one should raise this topic with the congress people and other government types that have dual citizenship….Like Cantor…Wasserman-Shultz…Lieberman..etc…etc…
If anyone should doubt the ultimate downfall of Israel they need look no further. I'm not sure but I think the majority of the "extremists" in the Knesset – and the government at large – are mostly Russian or East European exports. I wonder if their racist tendencies are a result of how they were treated before they emigrated. Not to exonerate them – they're scum and will eventually reap what they sow.
Perhaps some one should raise this topic with the congress people and other government types that have dual citizenship….Like Cantor…Wasserman-Shultz…Lieberman..etc…etc…
Presumably some of these human rights activists are liberal Jews. When is the ADL going to condemn Shamalov-Berkovich on their behalf?
Yulia's KGB ideas pop up.
These people are a testament to Hitler. And, of course, the work camps should have gas ovens with gas stolen from Gaza and Egypt.
What a sad turn of events. What a sad legacy this woman will leave behind.
Such a waste, too- I imagine she'd look quite fetching in a hijab.
Hate begets hate. All of you, remember that.