{"id":5607,"date":"2016-10-04T16:31:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T21:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=5607"},"modified":"2016-10-05T17:01:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T22:01:20","slug":"the-lehava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/10\/04\/the-lehava\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lehava"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shlomi Eldar reports on the ongoing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/pulse\/originals\/2016\/09\/israel-extreme-right-group-targets-jerusalem-restaurants.html\" target=\"_blank\">violent dislike<\/a> between groups in Jerusalem:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jerusalem restaurant owners claim that members of the radical right group\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/0,7340,L-4848027,00.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/0,7340,L-4848027,00.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1475702973481000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGDc9RC_KPL7k22PR9hIttqQaVsew\">Lehava<\/a>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0the Hebrew acronym for Prevention of Assimilation in the\u00a0Holy Land \u2014\u00a0are threatening them with violence if they employ Arabs. In addition to making threats, Lehava activists have also carried out a series of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/anti-racism-group-to-attorney-general-act-on-jewish-right-wing-inciter\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/anti-racism-group-to-attorney-general-act-on-jewish-right-wing-inciter\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1475702973481000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGey3FjbscBuMUlDCSCZjbxzrdU1g\">violent attacks<\/a> in Jerusalem against Arab laborers, taxi drivers and passersby. The attacks\u00a0began soon after three Israeli youths were kidnapped and murdered by Palestinians in the West Bank in June 2014, and according to city restaurateurs, there has been a dramatic rise in such incidents since then. They claim that dozens of Lehava thugs go \u201cArab hunting,\u201d\u00a0especially on Thursdays, when yeshiva students begin\u00a0their break for Sabbath, and <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_720354885\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Saturday<\/span><\/span> evenings, when they head back to their seminaries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has become routine,\u201d the owner of one of Jerusalem\u2019s better known restaurants told Al-Monitor, requesting\u00a0anonymity. \u201cEach one of us restaurant owners knows that Thursdays and <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_720354886\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Saturday<\/span><\/span> nights are terrible days on which we declare an emergency alert.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And so they want to drive out the Arabs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shlomi Eldar reports on the ongoing violent dislike between groups in Jerusalem: Jerusalem restaurant owners claim that members of the radical right group\u00a0Lehava\u00a0\u2014\u00a0the Hebrew acronym for Prevention of Assimilation in the\u00a0Holy Land \u2014\u00a0are threatening them with violence if they employ Arabs. In addition to making threats, Lehava activists have also \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/10\/04\/the-lehava\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5646,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5607\/revisions\/5646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}