Last Update: 05/11/2003 18:30
Jerusalem Magistrate's Court Judge Noam Solberg on
Wednesday proposed that Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg
explicitly and publicly retract his offensive
statements about Arabs, in return for an end to
all criminal proceedings against him.
Ginsburg, a member of the
Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic
movement, and a former head
of a yeshiva in the West Bank
city of Nablus, was indicted
in July on charges of
encouraging racism against
Arabs in his book, "Tsav
Hasha'a - Tipul Shoresh"
("Order of the Day - Radical
Treatment"), which was published in 2001.
According to the proposal, Ginsburg would
publicly announce a retraction of his inciteful
statements and state his support for social and
political equal rights to all the state's
citizens, regardless of religion, race or
gender. Ginsburg, through his attorney Naftali
Wurzberger, said he would consider the
proposal.
Among others, the charges cite a conversation in
the book between Ginsburg and a student. The
student asks: "So an Arab has no right to exist
in Israel?" Ginsburg replies: "Here in the Land
of Israel, he has no right."
In another place in the book the student asks:
"What is the rabbi's opinion about the Arabs as
a nation and a people, as our enemies and our
foes?"
Ginsburg replies: "There is something called the
Third World or another name for more primitive
nations. Clearly, they are lower on the world's
cultural ladder; but the murderousness and
anti-Semitism are not a function of
primitiveness, since the Germans were the most
enlightened and educated and also the most
bestial in every way."
In the past, Ginsburg had praised the massacre
carried out in 1994 by Baruch Goldstein, who
killed 29 Muslim worshipers at the Cave of the
Patriarchs in Hebron.
Ginsburg had declared that Goldstein's deed
constitutes "a fulfillment of a number of
commandments of Jewish law...[including] taking
revenge on non-Jews."
He was held in administrative detention for a
period of two months in 1996 for his
pronouncements, but the State Prosecution
decided not to charge him and let him go.
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