The Israeli organization Lehava (an acronym for the Hebrew words meaning “preventing assimilation in the Holy Land”) has started circulating flyers in Jerusalem
warning non-Jews to stop flirting with or talking to Jewish girls,
saying “We don’t want you to get hurt, respect our girls’ honor because
they are dear to our hearts.”
The flyers, which some Lahava activists have been handing out at
Damascus Gate in east Jerusalem and elsewhere in the city, also say “Our
girls are dear to us, just like you don’t want a Jew to date your
sister, we also aren’t willing to accept an Arab dating one of our
women. Just like you would do anything to stop a Jew from dating your
sister, so would we!”
The flyers warn Arab men not to come to west Jerusalem’s malls or
public areas to meet girls, advising them to “walk around in your
village and find a girlfriend there, not here!”
The flyer also mentions the savage beating that left 17- year-old
Jamal Julani near death in “Cat Square” in downtown Jerusalem last
Thursday, saying “Last week, an Arab who thought he’d come here and find
a Jewish girlfriend was hurt, we don’t want you to get hurt, respect
the honor of our girls because they are dear to us!”
Lehava is an organization whose primary objective is opposing marriages between Jewish women and non-Jewish men.
The organization gained notoriety in 2010 after sending an open
letter to Israeli Jewish supermodel Bar Refaeli urging her to break off
her relationship with American actor Leonardo DiCaprio, who is Roman
Catholic.
Also in 2010, a number of Lehava-aligned rabbis signed a proclamation
which said that leasing land to non-Jews was “blasphemous” and that
anyone violating the ban would be ostracized. The document, which was
endorsed by more than 50 national-religious and ultra-Orthodox rabbis
working in municipalities across Israel,
Later the same year, a number of rabbis’ wives issued an open letter urging Israeli women not to date non-Jews.
The letter stated, “Your grandmothers never dreamed that one of
their decedents would, by one act, remove future generations from the
Jewish people. For you, for future generations, and so that you will
never have to endure the terrible suffering, we appeal to you, begging,
pleading, praying: Don’t date them, don’t work where they work and don’t
perform National Service with them.”
In addition to opposing interfaith and interethnic marriages, Lehava
also has encouraged Israelis to report to the organization the names of
Israelis who rent to Arabs, so that they can be named and shamed
publicly.
Illustration: a copy of the Lehava leaflet, which reads:
Dear Arab guy:
We don’t want you to get hurt!
Our daughters are valuable to us,
and just as you would not want a Jew to date your sister
we unwilling are also unwilling for an Arab to date a girl from among our people.
Just as you would do anything to stop a Jew from dating your sister – so do we!
If you are thinking of visiting Jerusalem malls or the pedestrian
street [Midrechov] with the intention of dating Jewish girls – this
isn’t the place for you.
You may walk around in your own village freely and find girlfriends there, not here!
Last week an Arab who thought he might find Jewish girls got hurt.
We don’t wish for you to get hurt,
So respect our daughters’ honor
As we mind it dearly!
Lehava organization.
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