German Jewish leader ’ashamed of haredim wearing yellow star’
Wednesday, January 4, 2012    

LIDER NJEMAČKIH ŽIDOVA SE STIDI ZBOG "ŽUTIH ZVIJEZDA" KOJE SU NOSILI HAREDI

By AFP


Predsjednik Centralnog koncila Židova u Njemačkoj, Dieter Graumann,  je izjavio  za Koelner Stadt-Anzeiger da su te demonstracije uznemirujuće jer dolaze od Židova.

       

"Slike su me "šokirale" i ja se čak sramim da Židovi, između svih ljudi, mogu učiniti tako nešto, unakaziti sliku Holokausta, rekao je Graumann. Mi Židovi u Njemačkoj uvijek govorimo da nitko ne smije štetiti uspomeni na Holokaust. Ako sada to rade Židovi, to je specijalno nepodobno, dodao je Graumann,  čiji su roditelji bili internirani u koncentracijski logor.  

Demonstracije ovaj vikend u ultraortodoksnom dijelu Jeruzalema Mea Shearim, privukle su stotine muškaraca i dječaka, neki su nosili žute zvijezde,  a drugi prugaste uniforme iz nacističkih logora smrti.

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The rally was ostensibly called to protest the jailing of a man who led vigilante attacks against a neighbourhood religious bookshop accused by community hardliners of selling non-religious books.

But ultra-Orthodox news website Kikar Hashabbat said the demonstration was a response to media criticism in recent weeks of the community and its attempts to enforce gender segregation.

Kikar Hashabbat said demonstrators donned yellow stars, which Jews in Germany and countries occupied by the Nazis were forced to wear to identify themselves in public, as "an exceptional protest measure."

However, Graumann stressed the protesters were "only a very small fraction of society in Israel, which is radical and is producing these abhorrent images."

"This is not representative of Israeli society, which is generally characterized by a spirited love of life," added the president.