Now this is real “anti-Semitism”, ‘Dial one if you know a Jew dating an Arab’

‘Dial one if you know a Jew dating an Arab’: Shocking Israeli campaign group set up ‘hotline’ to inform on ‘traitors diluting the Jewish race’ – and tried to split up model Bar Rafaeli and Leo DiCaprio 

  • Racist Right-wing anti-assimilation group is against Jews marrying Arabs
  • Groups runs a hotline to report Jews in relationship
  • Members have targeted Israelis and Palestinians, Leonardo DiCaprio and supermodel Bar Rafaeli, and even Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg
  • They even protested at a wedding of a Jew who had converted to Islam 
  • Lehava believes relationships between a Jew and a non-Jew is a Biblical sin
  • Critics say Lehava seeks to sow hatred between Jews and Arabs in Israel

 

Racist extremists who set up a ‘hotline’ to inform on Jews in a relationship with ‘Arabs’ and who targeted Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg are openly peddling hate and violence – but the Israeli government won’t act.

Lehava, a radical fringe group in Israel, hunts down people sleeping with ‘goys’ – or non-Jews ‘- then ‘persuades’ them to separate, attacks Christians as ‘vampires’ and ‘bloodsuckers’ and is justifying attacks on churches using the Bible.

It accused supermodel Bar Rafaeli of ‘diluting the Jewish race’ if she did not split up Leonardo DiCaprio and has faced calls to be banned by the Pope.

Yet despite being under investigation for four years, the hate-filled campaigners operate in the central square of Jerusalem where they openly incite violence every Thursday night, the eve of the Israeli weekend.

And leader Benzi Gopstein boasted to MailOnline that he receives ten calls a day from Jewish people informing on friends who are dating non-Jews.

Emerging from a dimly-lit archway of a cobbled alley in the holy city of Jerusalem, waving black flags and shaking their fists in the air, they look like a gang of thugs.

The ‘whole meaning of life,’ Dov, a 21-year-old activist and Lehava coordinator for the central Israeil town of Modiin area explains, is to serve God and let the Bible guide your reason.

‘To do what God says you’re supposed to do, not what you think in your head that you’re supposed to do. And if you marry a non-Jew, it just means ‘I don’t give a rat’s ass about what God says -I want to be like everyone else who don’t have a God.’

Founded in 2009, Lehava means ‘the flame’, and is also an acronym in Hebrew for ‘Preventing Assimilation in the Holy Land’. For the activists, a relationship between a Jew  and a non-Jew is a Biblical sin – and something to be fought against.

It went so far as to set up a ‘hotline’ enabling others to inform on those who have relations with non-Jews, termed ‘goys’.

‘If you are in contact with a goy and need assistance, press one,’ the Hotline’s answer phone message stated, the Times of Israel reported.

‘If you know a girl who is involved with a goy and you want to help her, press two.

‘If you know of a goy who masquerades as a Jew or is harassing Jewish women, or of locations where there is an assimilation problem, press three.’

In a recording of the hotline obtained by MailOnline this week, the group has dropped the specific demand for informers and instead advertises martial arts seminars for the training of the ‘Jewish Honour Guard’.

It also advertises upcoming protests together with ‘La Familia’, a notoriously racist football hooligan group who support ‘Beitar Jerusalem’ – the only football club in Israel’s premier league which has never signed an Arab player.

La Familia activists have in the past ripped and burned copies of the Quran at football matches, held up anti-Arab placards in the bleachers, and shouted insulting anti-Muslim and racist slogans.

Singled out: Lehava has made its abhorrence for inter-racial relationships well known, even offering a service where people can call in to 'report' relationships of Jews with non-Jews

Singled out: Lehava has made its abhorrence for inter-racial relationships well known, even offering a service where people can call in to ‘report’ relationships of Jews with non-Jews

The group have now begun advertising for people to join the 'Jewish Honour Guard'. Pictured: Dov, a co-ordinator for the Lehava in his Israeli town, out in Jerusalem with activists on a Thursday evening

The group have now begun advertising for people to join the ‘Jewish Honour Guard’. Pictured: Dov, a co-ordinator for the Lehava in his Israeli town, out in Jerusalem with activists on a Thursday evening

Leader: Benzi Gopstein (pictured) - the head of the organisation - said if there was an Arab waiter at his own daughter's wedding, the waiter 'would likely be looking for the closest hospital'

Leader: Benzi Gopstein (pictured) – the head of the organisation – said if there was an Arab waiter at his own daughter’s wedding, the waiter ‘would likely be looking for the closest hospital’

'Future': The group wrote a letter to Bar Rafaeli when she was dating DiCaprio saying she would 'harm the future generations' if she went on to marry the famous actor

‘Future’: The group wrote a letter to Bar Rafaeli when she was dating DiCaprio saying she would ‘harm the future generations’ if she went on to marry the famous actor

But it does not stop there. Critics of Lehava argue that the group seeks to sow hatred between Jews and Arabs and are regularly fanning the flames of violence in the already troubled and bloodied region.

When Jewish supermodel Rafaeli dated Roman Catholic Hollywood star DiCaprio in 2010, Baruch Marzel, the head of Jewish National Front wrote to Ms Rafaeli on behalf of Lehava, urging her not to ‘dilute the Jewish race.’

Emphasising that he had ‘nothing against Mr DiCaprio, who I have no doubt is a talented actor,’ the extremist urged Ms Rafaeli to ‘Come to your senses’.

‘Don’t marry Leonardo DiCaprio, don’t harm the future generations.’

Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook founder who is an atheist with Jewish roots, faced a similar predicament when, in 2012, he married non-Jewish Priscilla Chan. Benzi Gopstein, the head of Lehava wrote to Mr Zuckerberg, urging him to ‘separate from the non-Jewish woman and find a good Jewish one, and to make up for your mistake, go on a major campaign on Facebook against assimilation.’

‘I’m here, on behalf of the Jewish people, to spoil the party,’ Mr Gopstein wrote to Zuckerberg, Al Arabiya reported, adding that ‘Assimilation is bringing the extermination of the Jews to the seventh million!’ 

But Lehava’s activities do not stop merely with protests, letters to celebrities and an answerphone machine.

Since its establishment, Lehava launched anti-Arab campaigns everywhere from shops and beaches to the synagogues and schools, bidding the public not only to report any Jewish-Arab romantic liaisons, but also not to rent Arabs apartments, and not employ them in workplaces. On the group’s current answerphone message, Lehava praises ‘Avihay Bakery’, saying ‘finally they fired the Arab who bothered the Jews’.

In 2011, the group even issued ‘kashrut’ certificates to praise businesses which illegally refrained from employing Arabs.

This and other activities amount to incitement to violence, argue critics. Lehava ‘advocates hatred of Arabs in Israel and is based on racially-oriented and alarmist incitement,’ notes a report by Israel Religious Action Centre (IRAC), a public and legal advocacy arm of the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism. ‘Lehava’s basic message is that Arabs are enemies of Israel and that contact with them will lead to disaster and the kidnapping of Jewish girls to Arab villages.’

When asked about the so-called ‘regular occurrences’ of kidnaps of Jewish women by Arab men, the Israeli police responded that this is not a phenomenon that exists.

Critics: Lehava 'advocates hatred of Arabs in Israel and is based on racially-oriented and alarmist incitement,' notes a report by Israel Religious Action Centre (IRAC)

Critics: Lehava ‘advocates hatred of Arabs in Israel and is based on racially-oriented and alarmist incitement,’ notes a report by Israel Religious Action Centre (IRAC)

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