On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:41 AM, joel schalit <jschalit at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh, that's so funny. Thanks, Doug. For those who don't know Marzel
> well (including the author of this article, obviously), the rightist
> in question is a former associate of Meir Kahane, who lives in Hebron.
> He's quite the extremist, and an equal opportunity homophobe as well
> as being a racist settler.
>
> Joel
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>> <http://gawker.com/5490785/bar-rafaeli-should-dump-leo-and-date-a-nice-jewish-boy-says-bubbe-mafia>
>>
>> Bar Rafaeli Should Dump Leo and Date a Nice Jewish Boy, Says Bubbe Mafia
>> by Maureen O'Connor
>>
>> Israeli nationalist organization Lehava "provides assistance to Jewish girls
>> in relationships with non-Jews," helping "extricate" them from goyim
>> relationships. Their latest target: Israeli supermodel and Leonardo DiCaprio
>> girlfriend Bar Rafaeli.
>>
>> The leader of Lehava (Hebrew for "flame" and an acronym for "Preventing
>> Assimilation in the Holy Land") wrote a letter to Bar and sent it to her
>> mother. The Los Angeles Times translates:
>>
>> "It is not by chance that you were born Jewish," wrote Baruch Marzel in a
>> letter he sent Refaeli through her mother (and that promptly appeared in
>> the press). "Your grandmother and her grandmother did not dream that one of
>> their descendants would one day remove the family's future generations from
>> the Jewish people. Assimilation has forever been one of the enemies of the
>> Jewish people."
>>
>> This isn't personal, wrote Marzel, who was careful to open his letter
>> stressing that he "has nothing against Mr. DiCaprio, who I have no doubt is
>> a talented actor." Still, he implores Refaeli: "Come to your senses, look
>> forward and back too — and not only the present. Don't marry Leonardo
>> DiCaprio, don't harm the future generations."
>>
>> Usually devoted to breaking up Jew-Arab relationships in the Holy Land
>> (according to Lehava's Facebook page and Google Translate) Marzel is known
>> to launch the occasional campaign against high-profile non-Jews who date
>> chosen females. In other news, copying and pasting Hebrew text is highly
>> confusing, on account of the whole right-to-left thing. [LAT] [Lehava] [Pic:
>> SI.com]
>>
>>
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