And yet again, Israeli Neo-Nazis. September 10, 2007

I’m sick of it. Israel has a serious problem with neo-Nazi activity inside its borders. This is not new — Israel has had a neo-Nazi underground element operating there for years, and now it rears its ugly head again. This can not be tolerated anywhere with a star of David on its flag.

MSNBC brings us the latest story, the recent break-up of a neo-Nazi gang by Israeli police:

…Police said Sunday they have cracked a cell of young Israeli neo-Nazis accused in a string of attacks on foreign workers, religious Jews, drug addicts and gays. Eight immigrants from the former Soviet Union have been arrested in recent days in connection with at least 15 attacks, and a ninth fled the country, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said, in the first such known cell to be discovered in Israel. (ok, whatever… — Ed.)

All the suspects are in their late teens or early 20s and have Israeli citizenship, Rosenfeld said…Police computer experts have determined they maintained contacts with neo-Nazi groups abroad, and materials seized include a German-language video about neo-Nazis in the U.S.

The gang’s alleged leader is Arik Benyatov, 20. Benyatov’s mother called the arrests a “witch hunt” against the Russian community.

These people were shouting “sieg heil” in the streets. One member had this to say to police:

Police named the leader of the neo-Nazi gang as Eli Boanitov, 19, from Petah Tikvah, a city next to Tel Aviv.

Boanitov, who was known as “Eli the Nazi”, told police: “I won’t ever give up. I was a Nazi and I will stay a Nazi, until we kill them all I will not rest.” In one conversation recorded by the police, Boanitov tells one of his fellow gang members: “My grandfather was a half-Jewboy. I will not have children so that this trash will not be born with even a tiny per cent of Jewboy blood.”

During the investigation, police seized video recordings of the suspects attacking foreign workers. One of the videos shows the gang members attacking a Russian drug addict, striking him until he bled and forcing him to ask forgiveness of the Russian people for being a Jewish drug addict….

Police also found recordings of conversations between gang members, in one they planned how to celebrate the Führer’s birthday, and in another they planned a Nazi ceremony at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem.

In Israel! The place these people were only allowed citizenship to BECAUSE of “Jewboy blood”! You can see video here.

Arab MKs have called for these people to be “dealt with harshly”. Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit said that they may be deported.

They should have never been let in.

In my opinion, this shows that the Law of Return which guarantees Israeli citizenship to every Jew can not be a carte blanche pass for anyone with a Jewish grandparent. There simply must be some other criterion. A neo-Nazi can not be said to have any “tie” to the Jewish people so great as to necessitate his getting a “get into Israel free” card.

UPDATE: Pro-Nazi slogans and crosses were found on the Pahad Yitzchak synagogue in Eilat, Israel today. Local police were notified.