Comments on: Call to Lock Up Rabbonim Involved with Toras HaMelech

By: good4u

good4u — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:34:35 +0000

Reminds me of the censors in czarist Russia.

By: Milhouse

Milhouse — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:18:12 +0000

Akuperma, all that you wrote is true, and yet even with all that they would never consider questioning a law professor who contributed to a similar book from the perspective of secular or international law. It’s only because this sefer examines the question from the perspective of Torah law that the authorities are investigating. So even by Israeli standards this is a bizyon hatorah.

By: akuperma

akuperma — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:54:47 +0000

Israel doesn’t allow freedom of expression. In the USA they’ld be protected by the First Amendment, but they are within Israel. Israel is a secular zionist state, and the authors views are therefore considered sedition, and since it is sedition that might have an impact on the public, it is all the more dangerous than some maginalized Arab or some left-wing nutcase.

In America, the rule developed that truth was a defense against sedious libel. The old rule was the greater the trust, the greater the libel.

By: Milhouse

Milhouse — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:34:47 +0000

Of course if a bunch of law professors were to write a similar book discussing the question from the perspective of secular or international law, they would not be subject to any sort of investigation. It would be self-evident that there was nothing to investigate, and they are covered by freedom of speech. But because “Torat Hamelech” discusses the Torah rather than the Geneva Conventions, it does not enjoy the same immunity. That very fact is an indictment of the State of Israel, and calls into question its very legitimacy. Rav Lior was quite right to refuse to cooperate with this investigation; merely answering the police’s questions would be a bizayon hatorah.

By: deepthinker

deepthinker — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:17:35 +0000

Why don’t they just “man-up” and join the intafada!

By: lazerc

lazerc — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 14:28:50 +0000

the reform movement, long known as the deform movement, exhibts its fear of the goyim and hatred of the yidden. When a Jewish rabbi states his opinion, and it is against the grain of the goyim, the deform movement feels compelled to defend the honor of the church and islam.

Pheeh, upon them. May G-d pour His wrath out upon the deform movement and of the nations that not know Him.

By: MDshweks

MDshweks — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:44:51 +0000

I wonder if these orgenizations do the same to all the Arab literature…