Jerusalem – Ultra-Orthodox Activist Petitions Israeli High Court To Restrict Remembrance Day Siren

    13

    Elhanan Ostrowitz at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, 2012 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)Jerusalem – An ultra-Orthodox activist with a history of anti-Zionist civil disobedience has petitioned the Israeli High Court of Justice to put restrictions on where the Remembrance Day siren is sounded.

    Join our WhatsApp group

    Subscribe to our Daily Roundup Email


    The TIMES OF ISRAEL (http://bit.ly/101yVLi) reports that, in his petition, Elhanan Ostrowitz said that the country-wide sounding of the siren amounts to a violation of freedom of expression, and that the law demanding that people stand at attention during the exercise is a practice that “defines dictatorships.”

    Ostrowitz is asking that the use of the siren be restricted solely to memorial sites and military bases.

    Ostrowitz has a history of civil disobedience. In 2012 he was convicted of trespassing and vandalism after posting anti-Zionist graffiti at the Yad Vashem and Ammunition Hill memorials.


    Listen to the VINnews podcast on:

    iTunes | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Podbean | Amazon

    Follow VINnews for Breaking News Updates


    Connect with VINnews

    Join our WhatsApp group


    13 Comments
    Most Voted
    Newest Oldest
    Inline Feedbacks
    View all comments
    Geulah
    Geulah
    11 years ago

    So here we go, you restrict my rights and I’ll petition to restrict yours. You want me to leave yeshiva, I don’t want to remember those that gave their lives for this country. You want to take away my freedom to vent, I want to take away your freedom to reflect. Dictatorship, huh! Maybe you all grow up.

    SandmanNY
    SandmanNY
    11 years ago

    Another koo-koo-riku. Just makes so many Jews want to be Shomer Torah and Mitzvos, right?

    Granny
    Granny
    11 years ago

    What an idiot.

    lastword
    Noble Member
    lastword
    11 years ago

    As his rights will be respected, it will be a sign of a greater spirit of openness toward shimiros hamitzvos within the Jewish State. When secular people see beyond themselves, the introspection will allow them the greater zechus to consider better Torah ways.

    If Jews living in the holy land would honor kashrus, Shabbos and other mitzvos in a truer way, it wouldn’t drive as many of their caring brothers and sisters like this fellow to rise against them out of frustration on more minor issues like this one. No one wants to be told what to do, such as to stand at attention in the street by those who rebel against standing at attention in more fundamental ways themselves such as to daven in (a proper) shul or to stand aloof from the world’s indulgences on Shabbos. The mockery is very great.

    Mordechai_Ben_Yaakov
    Mordechai_Ben_Yaakov
    11 years ago

    Politically correct speech irritates me. Since when is defacing property civil disobedience? I always thought it was vandalism. True, his actions may be non-violent, but he certainly wasn’t engaging in civil disobedience when we defaced Yad Vashem.

    Anon Ibid Opcit
    Anon Ibid Opcit
    11 years ago

    This is the same guy who vandalized the Yad Vashem and Ammunition Hill?
    If Israel were the brutal Nazi dictatorship he claims his body would already be in a ditch somewhere

    jack-l
    jack-l
    11 years ago

    Every city ,country, nationality religion and even your shul has their “loony tooney.”
    to #4 Your comparision of the fellow not standing during these special 2 minutes and the secular inferior jews not standing for shemonei esreiis is an invalid comparison. The direct comparison would be …..a not yet shomer shabbos jew or even nonjew coming into your shul and causing a ruccus during the shtile shemonei esrei. or maybe during a hesped. Thats the real comparison. and i have yet to something like this happen. probably never.
    You have to get over your disgust of other jews. What you should see thousands and thousands of shomer shaboos, frum, G-D loving jews standing ,remembering and crying. You gonna tell me you havent lost anyone? Look at the ugliness that drives you. You are someone that should know better moreso than an uneducated fellow jew.
    a little hakaros hatov would do you wonders
    a chag kosher visamayach

    11 years ago

    He has a point. If you look at the drum-beating and flag-waving popular during the 20’s and 30’s, you can see where the zionist regime got their ideas from: they were transplanted straight from their countries and societies of origin. They have no connection with Jewish thought or lifestyle whatsoever. The people who designed them had no connection with Judaism or Jewish life; they were all hard-line Socialists, Bundists, Communists and Fascists (that’s how BenGurion described Jabotinsky and Begin), most of whom hated the Jewish faith with a passion. Today these outmoded parades and ceremonies are only retained by dictatorships. Why should this anti-Jewish and un-Jewish behaviour be forced upon others?