[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-28831114[/url]
[quote]Four far-right Jewish protesters have been arrested at the wedding of a Jewish-born woman who converted to Islam and an Arab Muslim man in Israel.
Several hundred demonstrators rallied outside the reception hall in Rishon LeZion on Sunday, amid high security.
The groom, Mahmoud Mansour, had sought a court order to try to stop the protest from taking place but failed.
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin has condemned the demonstrations against the couple's union.
Supporters of the far-right Jewish Lehava group, who oppose the intermarriage of Arab Muslims and Jews, were granted permission to picket the wedding as long as they did not come within 200 metres of the wedding hall.
But four protesters were arrested for failing to follow police instructions, Israel's Ynet News website reported.[/quote]
[url]http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/17/us-mideast-israel-wedding-idUSKBN0GH0UB20140817[/url]
[quote]A group called Lehava, which organized the wedding demonstration, has harassed Jewish-Arab couples in the past, often citing religious grounds for their objections to intermarriage. But they have rarely protested at the site of a wedding.
The groom told Israel's Channel 2 TV the protesters failed to derail the wedding or dampen its spirit. "We will dance and be merry until the sun comes up. We favor coexistence," he said.
'DEATH TO THE ARABS' THREATS CHANTED
Protesters, many of them young men wearing black shirts, denounced Malka, who was born Jewish and converted to Islam before the wedding, as a "traitor against the Jewish state," and shouted epithets of hatred toward Arabs including "death to the Arabs." They sang a song that urges, "May your village burn down."
A few dozen left-wing Israelis held a counter-protest nearby holding flowers, balloons and a sign that read: "Love conquers all."
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Lehava spokesman and former lawmaker Michael Ben-Ari denounced Jews intermarrying with non-Jews of any denomination as "worse than what Hitler did," alluding to the murder of 6 million Jews across Europe in World War Two.[/quote]
yes marrying those of other faiths is worse than killing 6 million people
Ah, Israel's private WBC, being as nutty as ever.
I wonder what four people did to get arrested that a few hundred couldn't.
EDIT: Misread the OP.
Far-right groups of any race or nationality tend to be comprised of terrible people. No news there.
Aren't these guys supposed to be the Israeli equivalent to the Westboro Baptist Church?
[QUOTE=Monkah;45722873]Ah, Israel's conservative nutjobs, being as nutty as ever.
Although I'm thankful it was only four of these fucks, I was expecting a WBC type of crowd from the title.[/QUOTE]
[quote=Second line of the OP]Several hundred demonstrators[/quote]
[QUOTE]A few dozen left-wing Israelis held a counter-protest nearby holding flowers, balloons and a sign that read: "Love conquers all."[/QUOTE]
It's amazing how dichotomized views can be.. this group loving, the other hating.
At least no one got hurt.
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