Wednesday, July 20, 2005

The Czar might be long dead but some ideas refuse to die with him

Apparently, the Shulhan Arukh, which is a summary of Jewish law, holidays and traditions, is now being considered an instrument used to promote hatred of gentiles in Russia according to this Jerusalem Post report.

A group of Russian nationalists has asked a Moscow court to order prosecutors to investigate Jewish leaders in connection with the Shulhan Arukh, which they say incites hatred, a news agency reported Tuesday. The reported request was the latest move in a campaign aimed at banning Jewish organizations in Russia.

Interfax reported that members of the group asked Moscow's Basmanny District Court to order the Prosecutor-General's Office to investigate Jewish leaders they accuse of imposing the principles of a summary of religious laws called Kitzur Shulhan Arukh, which they say foments hatred.

Russia which has a rather long and infamous historical tradition of anti-Semitism, and in fact, gave birth to the internationally renown forgery known as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, has nationalists claiming that the group of people who suffered the longest from hatred and discrimination is now the group that is promoting hatred by following their code. Truly it boggles my mind. Who would have thought that Russian Nationalists are now the New Jews. I guess once an anti-Semite, always an anti-Semite.

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