A reader writes:
I noticed that Goldblog quoted the Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi, Yona Metzger, about the mosque torching. He conspicuously refrained from quoting the Chief Sephardic Rabbi (yes, Israel has two Chief Rabbis), Shlomo Amar. The latter said about the mosque torching that it may have been a "blood libel", perpetrated by people ""who wanted to slander the people considered suspects in this act".
The "people considered suspects" are, of course, radical settlers. Burnings of mosques have been on the rise since 2009, but so far no one was indicted for them. Shin Beth notoriously finds it hard to penetrate Judaist (as per Christianist: Jews who believe in enforced Jewish supremacy) cells.
Can you imagine the uproar had a, say, Polish bishop said he condemns the burnings of synagogues, but cautions it may have been "a blood libel intended to slander the people considered suspects"? Needless to say, Amar – who was implicated but not indicted in the kidnapping and beating of a boy who dared to date his daughter – is a state employee.
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