tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786517.post110536294946570571..comments2023-09-25T07:01:43.067-04:00Comments on Critical Montages: Anti-Semites Make "Aliyah" to Israel . . . as the Best and Brightest Jews Return to RussiaYoshiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11826849368615187619noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786517.post-1105458513402034432005-01-11T10:48:00.000-05:002005-01-11T10:48:00.000-05:00The author of the BBC article is Lucy Ash (as indi...The author of the BBC article is Lucy Ash (as indicated in parentheses in the blog entry); the author of the Guardian article is Chris McGreal (as spelled out in the last sentence of the blog entry). You can read both the articles by clicking on the links in the blog entry.<br /><br />As for the nature of anti-Semitism mentioned in the BBC and Guardian articles, the following incident reported by Ariel Finguerman and Elana Shap in their article "Aliyah from Former Soviet Union Brings a Surprise — anti-Semitism" (JTA, July 23, 2003, http://www.ncsj.org/AuxPages/072303JTA_Olim.shtml) sheds light on it:<br /><br />In a great majority of cases, the victims are elderly Russian Jewish immigrants. <br /><br />“They are more unprotected and easily recognized by the anti-Semites,” Gilichinsky says. “Israelis, on the other hand, can defend themselves and know how to go to the police, hence they are hardly attacked.” <br /><br />Dvora Biton, 38, turned to Gilichinsky for help after an unpleasant situation developed about two years ago. She told JTA that her adversary was a neighbor in Yeroham, a city in the Negev Desert.<br /><br />In the beginning, the relationship with the neighboring family was pleasant, and the Bitons, who are Orthodox Jews, invited them for a Shabbat dinner. When they discovered that the neighbors were not Jewish, however, the Bitons decided to cut down on their social contact. <br /><br />The neighbor reacted badly and started to call Biton “zhidovka,” a pejorative Russian term for a Jew. Every time they met, the neighbor made the cross sign on her chest, shouted, spat on the floor and cursed Biton, she says. <br /><br />“Life became unbearable,” Biton says. “It sounds absurd, but we finally decided to move and today we live in Eilat.”Yoshiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11826849368615187619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786517.post-1105417702757506562005-01-10T23:28:00.000-05:002005-01-10T23:28:00.000-05:00Hey Yoshie, This is Don Nelson. This posting is l...Hey Yoshie, This is Don Nelson. This posting is listed as annonomous because I don't have the time to set up another password/id...<br /><br />My firewall told me that a Trojan Horse ("NetBus") tried to get to my computer upon entering your website. I don't know if it is from your blog site or coincidence. Malicious stuff like this - from both sides - is typical when you get into the Palestinian - Jewish conflict.<br /><br />About your article: You haven't shown who the author of your article is. If the author's name was available, readers could check out his original article to verify his sources of information. Those are persuasive remarks about Jews in Israel but only if the information is valid. Jews were persecuted in the Soviet Union. There is probably anti-semitism in Russia today. Jews would have interest in finding santuary in Israel, while there is no need for non-Jews from Russia, which is now free.<br /><br />From an Alternet article published last week, the author said that Israel established a policy that Israel is a Zionist state, where all Jews around the world are citizens of Israel. If that were true, Israel's policy would certainly be unfair to the native Palestinians of Israel. <br /><br />DonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com