Israeli Government Ads Warn Against Marrying Non-Jews

September 14th, 2009

U.S. Taxpayer money (a lot of it borrowed from China) is being used to promote crackpot religious purity propaganda in Israel.

This is off the rails.

Via: Alternet:

The Israeli government has launched a television and Internet advertising campaign urging Israelis to inform on Jewish friends and relatives abroad who may be in danger of marrying non-Jews.

The advertisements, employing what the Israeli media described as “scare tactics,” are designed to stop assimilation through intermarriage among young Diaspora Jews by encouraging their move to Israel.

The campaign, which cost $800,000, was created in response to reports that half of all Jews outside Israel marry non-Jews. It is just one of several initiatives by the Israeli state and private organizations to try to increase the size of Israel’s Jewish population.

According to one ad, voiced over by one of the country’s leading news anchors, assimilation is “a strategic national threat,” warning: “More than 50 percent of Diaspora youth assimilate and are lost to us.”

Adam Keller, of Gush Shalom, an Israeli peace group, said this was a reference both to a general fear in Israel that the Jewish people may one day disappear through assimilation and to a more specific concern that, if it is to survive, Israel must recruit more Jews to its “demographic war” against Palestinians.

The issue of assimilation has been thrust into the limelight by a series of surveys over several years carried out by the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute, a think tank established in Jerusalem in 2002 comprising leading Israeli and Diaspora officials.

The institute’s research has shown that Israel is the only country in the world with a significant Jewish population not decreasing in size. The decline elsewhere is ascribed both to low birth rates and to widespread intermarriage.

According to the institute, about half of all Jews in Western Europe and the United States assimilate by intermarrying, while the figure for the former Soviet Jewry is reported to reach 80 percent.

Israel, whose Jewish population of 5.6 million accounts for 41 percent of worldwide Jewry, has obstructed intermarriage between its Jewish and Arab citizens by refusing to recognize such marriages unless they are performed abroad.

The advertising campaign is directed particularly at Jews in the United States and Canada, whose combined 5.7 million Jews constitute the world’s largest Jewish population. Most belong to the liberal Reform stream of Judaism that, unlike Orthodoxy, does not oppose intermarriage.

One-third of Jews in the Diaspora are believed to have relatives in Israel.

According to the campaign’s organizers, more than 200 Israelis rang a hot line to report names of Jews living abroad after the first TV advertisement was run on Wednesday. Callers left details of e-mail addresses and Facebook and Twitter accounts.

One Response to “Israeli Government Ads Warn Against Marrying Non-Jews”

  1. Eileen says:

    Oy yoi yoi.
    W0E to to the shitzka (female non-jew) who carries the light in her heart and loins for one of the Chosen.
    The gentiles: a curse on the bloodline of the only race on earth who gives a sh-t or even entertains the thought that they are somehow the masters of the universe race that must be kept “pure.” Right.
    The rabid energy around the purity of a “species” is beyond where the human race should be in its development by now. At least, I would hope their evolution would have taken them to by now given past world events. Ya know, where the Jewish population was once wiped out, by all accounts, by those who wanted an blond and blue eyed population. Holy smokes.
    What is in the water these people drink, and/or what the fluck are they smoking?

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