May 31, 2005
Israeli police have discovered a ring of about 20 local neo-Nazis, young emigrants from the former Soviet Union, but are uncertain how to proceed against them as Israel has no specific laws against supporting Nazi beliefs, the Israeli daily Maariv reported Tuesday.The paper said police stumbled across the group after detectives who recently arrested a 20-year-old soldier suspected of drug use found a swastika tattooed on his arm and a large cache of neo-Nazi material downloaded from the Internet.
Interrogation of the young man, from the West Bank settlement of Ariel, put police on the trail of others, who West Bank police investigator Haim Fadlon told Maariv are suspected of taking part in anti-Semitic Internet chat rooms and performing secret ceremonies with swastika banners and other neo-Nazi regalia.
"We cannot disclose details of the inquiry, but it's chilling," Fadlon was quoted as saying. "It appears these are people living in this country who are talking among themselves about extermination of the Jews." Six million Jews were killed by the Nazis in the Holocaust of World War II, and hundreds of thousands of survivors made their homes in Israel after the war.Ok, I found this old story from the J-POST on the Israeli soldier mentioned in the above story:
The military police are questioning a 20-year-old soldier who revealed his affiliations to neo-Nazi groups to police. The soldier, who immigrated to Israel from Russia four years ago, has a swastika tattooed on his left shoulder.Ok, and this Arutz Sheva article indicates that he wasn't a Jew. But what about the other neo-Nazis?On Wednesday night, Judea and Samaria police arrested the soldier, who was caught with a substance suspected of being heroine. While being questioned by police, he revealed strong sentiments of hatred against Israel and support of neo-Nazism.
Police searching his home found drugs, and also confiscated his computer, which had on it numerous links to a variety of neo-Nazi groups.
While searching his apartment, the soldier's mother also admitted to supporting neo-Nazi groups, and was detained by police for questioning.
A non-Jewish IDF soldier who immigrated to Israel from Russia was arrested Wednesday and found to belong to a neo-Nazi organization.During the subsequent police investigation, suspicions arose that the two may have immigrated to Israel using counterfeit documents. However, due to the complex nature of Israel's Law of Return, it is possible that they arrived legitimately. The law, modeled in response to the Nazi Nuremberg Laws, gives anyone with even one Jewish grandparent the right to receive automatic Israeli citizenship.
The Interior Ministry said it was checking into the matter and will consider revoking the citizenship of the two if they indeed used fraudulent documents, but warned that such action is complicated from a legal perspective.
Posted by: Rusty at
04:17 PM
| Comments (8)
| Add Comment
Post contains 512 words, total size 4 kb.
Posted by: THANOS35 at May 31, 2005 05:53 PM (b7uP2)
Posted by: Bill Dautrieve at May 31, 2005 07:37 PM (EJc3J)
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at May 31, 2005 10:17 PM (0yYS2)
Posted by: A fatwad Finn at June 01, 2005 03:19 AM (cWMi4)
Posted by: Rusty Shackleford at June 01, 2005 09:40 AM (JQjhA)
Posted by: Carlos at June 01, 2005 10:19 AM (8e/V4)
Posted by: A fatwad Finn at June 01, 2005 12:00 PM (lGolT)
Posted by: David Getty at June 06, 2005 04:10 AM (5mUgK)
119 queries taking 0.1526 seconds, 257 records returned.
Powered by Minx 1.1.6c-pink.