The Red Line is Somewhere Behind You
How to start a civil war, courtesy of Chabadniks disobeying Chabad:
Under the banner, "Arik Sharon, you are bringing upon us a Holocaust," and with pictures of the Lubavitcher Rebbe everywhere, thousands of demonstrators gathered Thursday night at the Jerusalem International Convention Center to protest the evacuation of settlements in the Gaza Strip and northern Samaria...
Leaflets that were handed out during the convention stated that in each settlement there are "more weapons, ammunition and skilled individuals than during the Warsaw ghetto uprising"...
Last week, the Chabad Rabbinical Council, Chabad's mainstream leadership, called on Chabadniks not to take part in the demonstration.
I'm sensitive to the argument that accusing anti-disengagement protesters of incitement is a way to stifle legitimate political dissent (which is why Tzipi Livni's proposal to create "a new unit to handle illegal protest activity against the disengagement plan" is genuinely disturbing). But the risk of stifling dissent certainly can't justify letting genuine incitement go unchecked. I don't know where the line is exactly, but contextualizing disengagement as a battle akin to preventing the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto is way, way over it.
Under the banner, "Arik Sharon, you are bringing upon us a Holocaust," and with pictures of the Lubavitcher Rebbe everywhere, thousands of demonstrators gathered Thursday night at the Jerusalem International Convention Center to protest the evacuation of settlements in the Gaza Strip and northern Samaria...
Leaflets that were handed out during the convention stated that in each settlement there are "more weapons, ammunition and skilled individuals than during the Warsaw ghetto uprising"...
Last week, the Chabad Rabbinical Council, Chabad's mainstream leadership, called on Chabadniks not to take part in the demonstration.
I'm sensitive to the argument that accusing anti-disengagement protesters of incitement is a way to stifle legitimate political dissent (which is why Tzipi Livni's proposal to create "a new unit to handle illegal protest activity against the disengagement plan" is genuinely disturbing). But the risk of stifling dissent certainly can't justify letting genuine incitement go unchecked. I don't know where the line is exactly, but contextualizing disengagement as a battle akin to preventing the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto is way, way over it.
