In Israel, Miscegenation Equals Rape

On Monday, Sabbar Kashur, a young Palestinian man from East Jerusalem, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for something called “rape by deception.” Apparently, Mr. Kashur had consensual sex with a Jewish Israeli woman after assuring her that he was also Jewish. When she found out that he had lied to her, she went to the police.

Imagine living in a society where you can say, “I wish I had never slept with you. I’m going to the cops.” Only it’s not funny because Sabbar Kashur will probably go to jail for a year and a half. Meanwhile, efforts to combat actual sexual violence are undermined by a cynical distortion of the term rape. The real crime here, of course, is miscegenation.

Anyone from the US should recognize the Jerusalem District Court’s ruling for what it is: an anti-miscegenation measure on par with the now-defunct US laws against “race mixing” that were once used to uphold white supremacy. For most of us in the US, dating across race lines now seems about as edgy as wearing white after Labor Day. You can read Angela Davis’ Women, Race and Class for a reminder of how white Americans’ obsession with “racial purity” was codified to keep African Americans and white women in their place. That’s the paradigm in which we should understand this case.

In the US, anti-miscegenation laws were on the books until 1967, when the Supreme Court declared them unconstitutional. That was the same year that Israel began its occupation of Sabbar Kashur’s home in East Jerusalem. Since then, Israelis have fine-tuned their own obsession with racial purity. Only they like to call it “national purity,” since Jewish privilege in Israel depends on maintaining the Jewish character of the state. In fact, race-mixing is perceived as such a threat that more than half of all Israeli Jews agree that Jewish-Arab intermarriage is a form of treason.

In the East Jerusalem “neighborhood” (it’s really a settlement) of Pisgat Ze’ev, a group of men who call themselves "Fire for Judaism” actually patrol the streets in the hopes of spotting and disrupting relationships between Jewish women and Palestinian men. The Israeli towns of Petah Tikva, Kiryat Gat and even super-liberal Tel Aviv have government-sponsored municipal programs to prevent miscegenation. The programs include psychological counseling for Jewish women who stray and a hotline for people to inform on Jewish women who date Palestinians.

The goal of this week’s court ruling (and of Israeli laws governing marriage, adoption and surrogacy) is to prevent Jews and Palestinians from forming intimate or family relationships. In the West Bank, this degree of separation is ensured by a giant concrete wall that runs through much of the territory. But where there is no wall, the state will rely on other forms of power to maintain strict separation between the two peoples of this land. By the way, the Afrikaans word for separation is Apartheid.

Comments

[uncle joe mccarthy]

this blog is a blatant misrepresentation of the facts

the man is not young...unless you consider 30 years...young

the law is quite clear...one who misrepresents himself to gain sexual favors has committed rape

a jewish israeli male was also convicted of the crime and got 10 years

you may disagree with the law (i do) but it is not racist

the "modesty" squads are not government sanctioned

when will you so called human rights orgs cease your lies?

[Rako]

This scandal reminds me of a Nazi cartoon demonizing Jews who supposedly seduced Germans.
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/images/sturmer/sturm06.jpg

Racism is wrong whatever country it's in.

I hope this gets overturned very fast and the guy gets a huge payload. I doubt it though

[lidia]

uncle joe mccarthy is whitewashing the racist ruling. Jew in question was jailed for promising material gains to women he deceived. Not long ago anothe Jew, who simply lied about not being married got 3 month of community service and a year of probation - NOT 18 months in jail.

http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART1/969/635.html?hp=0&loc=107&tmp=2361

So, the judgment against the Arab IS a racist one.

Now, about "modesty squads" not being authority-sanctioned - see here

http://www.jkcook.net/Articles3/0426.htm

A local authority in Israel has announced that it is establishing a special team of youth counsellors and psychologists whose job it will be to identify young Jewish women who are dating Arab men and “rescue” them.

The move by the municipality of Petah Tikva, a city close to Tel Aviv, is the latest in a series of separate – and little discussed – initiatives from official bodies, rabbis, private organisations and groups of Israeli residents to try to prevent interracial dating and marriage.

[gil stein]

The man is also married with kids and lied about this. This is a ruling in favor of women, Lets compare this to the honor killings so prevalent in the Arab culture. Where is the outrage or does Madre sanction honor killings? Here a woman is deceived by a married man wanting to have sex with her. An unmarried Arab women who had sex would be in fear of her life. Lets focus on the real abusers of women or is that too difficult for Madre"

[Frederick Alexander Jones]

The Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty is an IRC 501 c 3 tax-exempt corporation that operates the Fineberg Senior Residence in Manhattan (for tenants of 62 or more years), and the policies of brutal anti-miscegenation rules, clever discrimination rules, and segregation here are both sophisticated and astonishing. Invidiously privileged Black volunteers constantly threaten eviction, verbally assault the most elderly, and otherwise seriously harass the most feeble tenants for demonstrating a glance or any other indications of possible future miscegenations or other intimacies. Small groups stage a couple of events to hide these matters of racial purity. Indeed, 75 years after the Nuremberg Laws, arrests are frquently made in Israel and Blacks are used in America to select other Blacks for fatal harassments or eviction for suspecion of attempted miscegenation. Moreover, if entitlements are to be cut, AMERICANS must start with these unlawful tax-exempt programs that are actually paid for, unknowingly, by the AMERICANS. They, also, are directly responsible for the problems in Palestine (Israel), as we pay much more than we can begin to afford or imagine ---forced to pay!