Alex Kurtagic: It would appear that multiculturalism in Israel could well use a course of anabolic steroids, as the Israelis appear not to be feeling its strength.
Jewish lobby wages war on Christmas trees
Lobby for Jewish values passes out fliers against hotels, restaurants putting up Christmas trees, other Christian symbols ahead of civil New Year, say businesses who do so risk losing kosher certification
Ari Galhar
A new front for religious battles: Hotels and restaurants
The “Lobby for Jewish values” this week began operating against restaurants and hotels that plan to put up Christmas trees and other Christian symbols ahead of Christmas and the civil New Year.
According to the lobby’s Chairman, Ofer Cohen, they have received backing by the rabbis, “and we are even considering publishing the names of the businesses that put up Christian symbols ahead of the Christian holiday and call for a boycott against them.”
Fliers and ads distributed among the public read, “The people of Israel have given their soul over the years in order to maintain the values of the Torah of Israel and the Jewish identity.
“You should also continue to follow this path of the Jewish people’s tradition and not give in to the clownish atmosphere of the end of the civil year. And certainly not help those businesses that sell or put up the foolish symbols of Christianity.”
The Jerusalem Rabbinate also works each year to ensure restaurants and hotels receiving kosher certification from the Jerusalem Religious Council do not put up Christian symbols.
According to a senior official in the kashrut department, this is done each year consensually, but that businesses which do not meet this requirement may find their kashrut certificate revoked.
It should be noted that most of the hotels in Jerusalem and a significant part of the restaurants in the capital receive permanent kosher certification from the city’s religious council.
Considering that there is a signficant Christian caucus that is staunchly pro-Israel and whose members even put their money where their mouths are, it would appear that, were these Christians ever to visit that troubled country around this time of the year, they would be disappointed, encountering absolutely no concessions to their faith. Sadly, these Christians, being wet and limp-wristed, meekly take any amount of scorn or abuse without a word of complaint; they are too scared to offend anyone. I do not respect them at all. Being, as they are, enthusiastic champions of multiculturalism, I would respect them somewhat if they demonstrated the courage of their convictions by demanding, vociferously and with righteous anger, tolerance and diversity in the Jewish state – including the right for hotels and restaurants to display Christmas trees, if they so wish, without threats or sanctions.
Come to think of it, however, I think the Jewish lobby has an excellent initiative that the West should emulate. The Christmas tree is important, even if one is not a Christian, as it has its roots in Germanic and Roman paganism. Hotels and restaurants that fail to display Christmas trees should be punished with a withholding of custom, accompanied by naming and shaming, of which they should be made aware. What we are lacking is the equivalent of the Jewish kosher certification. It seems a shame that we have not developed an authochtonous völkisch certification: one that is prestigious and requires exacting criteria, rigorous standards, periodic inspections, and annual fees; and which entails the right to display proudly a badge or seal that indicates to users of the business’ goods and services that these are a) of excellent quality, and b) actively contributing to the continuance and advancement of traditional European culture and values. If such a certification existed (I can dream), the threat of revocation, and the shame and vituperation that would ideally follow, would be an added weapon in the arsenal of opprobium against businesses that suddenly developed socially and culturally obnoxious practices.
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all you have to do is visit New York’s upper west side for a similar experience.
As traditional western values and peoples become less powerful, Jewish groups will get more aggressive. This anonmosity towards Christianity is as old as Christianity itself.
http://www.vdare.com/piatak/091211_christmas.htm
ccording to kabbala (Jewish mysticism), on the night on which ‘that man’—a Jewish euphemism for Jesus–was born, not even a trace of holiness is present . . . . For this reason, Nitel Night . . . is one of the few occasions when Hasidim refrain from Torah study. On this horrific night, they neither conduct weddings nor do they go to the mikveh (ritual bath)…” [For them, it's wholly unholy, by Shahar Ilan, December 24, 2004]
I’m a big fan of the Alinsky technique of stealing your opponent’s playbook, especially when he’s kicking your ass thoroughly, and have half seriously considered starting a consulting business that would certify businesses as white friendly. It would start with an auditing of hiring processes and customer service and if any problems were found I’d offer seminars on how to transact business with the white man.
It’s a real problem here in Canada; buying a freaking cup of coffee is now a political matter. If I go to Starbucks, I am served by a perky, perky, perky white woman who greets me, announces my total, announces my change, and wishes me a good day, all with a smile. If I go to Tim Horton’s, I get served by a surly immigrant woman, often wearing a hijab and part of a culture in which being friendly to men, customers or not, is not done. No hi, no announcing of total, no announcing of change, no wishing good day, no smile.
Businesses that are unwilling or unable to show respect to white customers would be noted and boycotted, and the ones that are white friendly would receive “White Friendly” certification.
I don’t see any legal problems with this, as it is a carbon copy of what Jesse Jackson and his gang do.
Ada, you may be on to something.
I’m a businessman in the foodservice industry and I’ve had problems with employees who behave like you describe at “Tim Horton’s”. Why? Because of the effects of multiculturalism in the hiring pool and the difficulty of legally eliminating the “other” w/o raising red flags and bringing the wrath of the EEOC down.
If you developed a “screening process” which could effectively screen w/o triggering problems, and a “training process” which would be a type of second-level screen, I would certainly be a customer. If you do develop something of this sort, please be sure to get it promoted by the editor of this blog in a manner that enables us to contact you.
Thanks!
I have an off topic question for Alex. I just read that he is Croatian on the most recent OO review. Why are there so many rightest Croatian figures? Tomislav Sunic, Vincent Sarich and now Alex. While I’m totally happy to have their support, I would naively have expected Croatians to align leftest, more against Western Europeans, as in the case of most Greeks, especially after the events in Yugoslavia.
Actually, I am not Croatian; I have never visited the country nor speak the language. I have partly Slovenian ancestry. The confusion occurs because in an interview I said that my father was born in Croatia, which is not the same as being Croatian. My father definitely has the Alpine character traits. As to the politics of Croats, I cannot speak with authority on the subject, but I have noticed that, generally, in former communist countries the subset of the population that is receptive to radically anti-communist ideas tends to be larger than in Western countries, whose experience with communism is different (among intellectuals, quite Romantic). Outside of Germany, National Socialist Black Metal and other völkisch forms of extreme Metal music, for example, are strongest in Eastern European countries, like Poland, Ukraine, and Russia. For a detailed examination of the cultural roots of this type of music, see my essay in the next issue of The Occidental Quarterly (the one with the black spine).
I think Vincent Sarich is Serbian.
Good commentary Alex. I’m especially glad you mentioned the Roman and Germanic roots of the “Christmas” tree. I also like your idea about a “volkisch” certification of businesses. Not being an expert in this type of thing, does your concept of a “volkisch” certification have any relation to the old Hanseatic League that I’ve heard mentioned before?
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