Amsterdam – Dutch Jews are beginning to wonder what’s coming next after the lower house of the Netherlands parliament voted Tuesday to approve a ban on ritual slaughter of animals for kosher and halal meat. The bill, sponsored by the country’s Animal Rights Party, stipulates that livestock must be stunned before slaughter.
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“Old people are scared, and young people who are just married are calling me to ask if they should stay here. Today it is the shechita and tomorrow, what? Circumcision? People are afraid,” Netherlands Chief Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs told the Reuters news agency.
“This is very painful,” Jacobs noted. “Those who survived the [second world] war remember the very first law made by the Germans in Holland was the banning of shechita, or the Jewish way of slaughtering animals.”
When it was just anti-Muslim rhetoric, Swiss bans on mosques and French bans on hijab most VIN readers were happy to go along. But once shechita is – so to speak – on the chopping block it’s a cause for panic.
Wake up, people. An assault on anyone’s rights is an assault on everyone’s.
Dear brothers and sisters; leave this with Jewish blood soaked cursed continent and go to Israel or the USA. do it now
I still don’t understand what is so humane about “stunning.” Basically “stunning” is zapping the animal with a big taser. It can take several electric shocks over a period of several minutes of one electric shock after another until the animal becomes unconscious. How is this “more humane” than the immediate severing of the carotid artery? There is a reason why the electric chair was eventually condemned as too cruel for executions.
“Stunning” is merely less messy and more efficient for the mass production meat industry.
Moe, why are you calling for a Judenrein Europa? European Jewry is just recovering so nicely, synagogues built after the war are demolished and replaced by larger ones, old village shuls are reclaimed and new congragations are formed, every child, every stone, every letter a living victory and for a tiny, though deeply traumatic, setback, one shochet may loose his Monday job, all that should be given up? Even if this passes, new elections will come.
B”H
Three observations:
1-The Nazis banned kosher slaughter before the horrors that followed. (Halal would not have been a consideration, b/c the Mufti(a Muslim) was in league with Hitler to exterminate Jews.) Everyone’s rights are definitely placed in jeopardy, but this particular legislation should be a cause for strong alarm.
2-If so-called Animal Advocates actually researched or understood kosher slaughter, & the cruelty of all other forms, including stunning, they would be singing the praises of Jewish wisdom and mercy, and banning stunning instead.
As a Noahide, I am not to eat meat taken from a living animal. Since even stunned animals, unfortunately, get strung up and begin to be slaughtered before they are dead (not the case EVER w/ kosher), on the rare occasion that I so eat meat, I only eat kosher meat which ensures me of no cruelty or suffering to the animal.
3-Judenrein Europa? How about a Juden-stark ISRAEL!!! Israel is “THE Land”. All other lands,as nice as any architecture or community or profession might be, is not “the Promised Land” to and for the Jewish people. It is and has always been considered galut, and for a good reason. HaTikvah!
B”H
Three observations:
1-It should be alarming to all that one of the early legislative moves of the Nazis was to outlaw shokhet (ritual kosher slaughter) before all the horrors began. Hypocrisy anyone? “Kindness” to animals and then mass slaughter of people?!!
2-If so-called Animal Advocates would actually research and understand shokhet they would be praising the Jewish/Torah wisdom & mercy and call for the ban of stunning. As a Noahide I am not to eat meat taken from a living animal. Unfortunately, many stunned animals begin to be butchered before they are dead. This never happens w/ kosher. Therefore it is the only meat that gives me a guarantee of fulfilling my obligation.
3-Judenrein Europa? How about a Juden-stark Israel!!! It is the Land. No other place no matter how beautiful the surroundings is “the Promised Land” to and for the Jewish People.There’s a reason Herzog failed to procure Uganda for that purpose. All other places are “galut” and rightly so. Israel it the Holy Land given by a Holy G*d for a Holy People. HaTikvah!
1) That is one card the Jewish lobby played badly in popular opinion, the animal right activists themselves were referring to that sad period all the time. It should have been used more as a counterattack, not an offensive.
2) That may be, and if you would be so good to fund the research showing that, shechita would be allowed again, but the problem is that to the Dutch law there is no difference between Jewish and mohamedan slaughter, it is the same thing, and you do not trust hallal meat either.
3) Moving to Israel, yes. Yelling at the tiniest problem to come to Israel, as if the shoah will start again, signaling to the Arabs and the other goyim that Jews are chicken cowards, giving up their heritage at the slightest inconvenience, no way.
Strengthen Israel with US Jews, but use Europe to show toughness, countries are strenghtened by workers, not by refugees.