Dozens of Israeli rabbis back call to forbid sale of property to Arabs

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shio said:
Dozens of Israeli rabbis back call to forbid sale of property to Arabs

Dozens of Israeli rabbis today backed a call to forbid Jews to rent or sell property to Arabs in a move likely to further stoke tensions in some cities.

More than 40 municipal chief rabbis, whose salaries are paid from public funds, signed a letter in support of a ruling by Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu of Safed in Upper Gallilee instructing his followers not to offer accommodation to non-Jews.

Anyone doing so, the letter said, "causes his neighbour a great loss, and his iniquity is greater than can be borne". It went on: "It is incumbent upon the seller's neighbours and acquaintances to warn and caution, first in private and then they are entitled to publish him in public, to distance themselves from him, to prevent trade from being done with him, not to have him read from the Torah and so forth until he reverses his decision that causes harm to so many people."

Following Eliyahu's earlier ruling, an 89-year-old Holocaust survivor who rents out rooms to three Arab students in Safed was threatened with having his house burned down and was denounced as a traitor to Judaism.

Safed, which has a large conservative ultra-orthodox population, has become a focus of anti-Arab sentiment although rabbis in other cities have also warned Jewish residents against renting or selling to non-Jews.

The Association for Civil Rights in Israel demanded that the prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, condemn the rabbis' letter and take disciplinary action against those employed by the state.

"Rabbis who are civil servants have an obligation to the entire public, including Israel's Arab citizens. It is unthinkable that they would use their public status to promote racism and incitement," ACRI said in a statement.

Israeli-Arabs, who make up about 20% of the population of Israel, say they are facing increasing racism and discrimination.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/07/israeli-rabbis-ban-rental-sale-to-arabs

Is Israel today's nazi state?

Your source disproves your point IMO, shio. 

"Nazi state" implies a state like Nazi Germany in the 1930s at least, i.e. after the Nazis controlled the state.  You may be ignorant of this, shio, but one of the first things the Nazis did was to make themselves the only legal political party.  They suppressed dissent. 

So when you post a story about extremist rabbis pushing an extremist worldview, and it shows a whole lot of more moderate people and organizations condemning them, it's clear that the extremists are not in control as one would expect of a "nazi state". 

Also, the fact that the Nazis graduated to industrialized genocide, against the Jews no less, makes your comparison extremely tasteless ... not that that's anything new.  Try "police state" next time, if you're capable of that much restraint on the subject of Israel.