Leftist Rabbi Eric Yoffie Supports Torture of Jews, Opposes Torture of Muslim Terrorists
Torture isn't inherently wrong. It's just wrong when the left supports the terrorists
December 29, 2015
Daniel Greenfield
Leftist clergyman Eric Yoffie opposes torture. Forcefully and vehemently.
In 2005, he wrote that, "The torture of prisoners, or issues of what is the appropriate conduct of soldiers, are issues that should have special resonance for Jews, given our experience in the 20th century. We have a special obligation to speak out on these issues; if we don't, shame on us."
This paragraph was quoted in a Union for Reform Judaism resolution against forceful interrogations of Al Qaeda terrorists in Guantanamo Bay. Yoffie signed on to a letter to Obama by the National Religious Campaign Against Torture stating, "Torture is incompatible with the tenets of our faiths."
But Eric Yoffie was only opposed to torturing Muslims. He is really enthusiastic about torturing Jews.
In his latest Haaretz piece on the Duma hoax, Eric Yoffie cries, "If rules need to be bent to get the information required to convict the Duma murderers, then so be it. To the security services: Do what you have to do. Do it quickly. Do it now."
In the Duma hoax, one of several fires started as part of a local Muslim clan rivalry in Israel was blamed on "Jewish terrorists" leading to the extended detention and alleged torture of "right-wing Jews" by the leftist Shabak security service. Many leftist and center-right politicians in Israel have made statements in favor of the Duma hoax, even though no actual evidence has been presented, which made it necessary for the security services to try and break some of the detainees to justify the hoax.
And Eric Yoffie abandons his opposition to torture, his concern for civil liberties, to call for extreme measures.
"Suspected Jewish terrorists... are now being defended by those who claim that the civil rights of the suspects are being violated by Israel’s security services. As a left of center American Jew, I would like to say plainly: There are times when human rights and civil liberties are not the most important thing for a democratic country that is fighting for her very survival," Yoffie shrieks.
Do a bunch of teens and twenty-somethings who occasionally spray graffiti represent a threat to a country's survival more than Muslim terrorists who massacre thousands of people? Obviously not.
What Eric Yoffie really means is that he supports the torture of Jews, but not of Muslims. He supports the torture of people he considers right-wing, but not those that are allied with the left.
"The question is not: Is Israel violating the human rights of the Jewish terrorists and their supporters ... The question is: Why have the security services not already put an end to this network of murderers and monsters," Eric Yoffie bleats.
This is the same Eric Yoffie who stopped by ISNA and works with Muslim Brotherhood front groups, an actual network of murderers and monsters whose various arms have helped finance Hamas.
"If rules need to be bent or if strict interpretations of human rights need to be adjusted in order to get the information required to convict the Duma murderers, then so be it. Instructions to the security services should be simple and straightforward: Do what you have to do. Do it quickly. Do it now," Yoffie goes on to bluster.
Earlier Eric Yoffie had claimed that, "The reason for Jewish terror is Torah. It is not territories and occupation that are to blame, although they are part of the picture. It is not racism or hatred of Arabs that are at fault, although they play a role. The heart of the problem is Torah, the sacred teachings of Judaism."
Lefty groups have repeatedly quoted Eric Yoffie in their attacks on Guantanamo Bay and detaining Muslim terrorists. But their concern for civil liberties is only for the civil liberties of Muslims. It is highly likely that they like Yoffie, support torturing Jews. Not to mention anyone else on the "right".
That's what it's really about. The fake concern for civil liberties goes out the window in 30 seconds once someone they consider an enemy because of their religion, Judaism, not Islam, Christianity, not Islam, is the target.
"If rules need to be bent to get the information required to convict the Duma murderers, then so be it," Eric Yoffie cries, suddenly channeling Jack Bauer. Torture isn't inherently wrong. It's just wrong when the left supports the terrorists.
Meanwhile here's one of the dreaded Duma network of murderers and terrorists who is somehow more of a threat than Hamas.
Earlier on Tuesday, according to the legal aid society Honenu, the State Prosecutor Shai Nitzan refused to let go of a suspect the Shabak had been keeping for more than a month, most of the time under incognito incarceration — defying an explicit court order.
According to Honenu, after the Central District Court of Lod rejected the police appeal and ordered the release under house arrest of the suspect in the Duma arson case, who now no longer faces those charges but a 2-year-old case of assault against a Bedouin, the Shabak informed the suspect’s attorneys they had orders from “high up” not to release him.
After several hours, the suspect’s lawyers and family were informed by the prosecution that the latter are appealing his release before the Supreme Court.
The boy was interrogated for 29 days by the Shabak, and for twenty days was barred from meeting with an attorney or seeing a judge. It is alleged that he was interrogated with extreme physical means, with court approval, including violent shaking, hitting, head banging against the wall, stretching his head back until he vomited, and sleep deprivation for stretches of three days and more.
And with the approval of Eric Yoffie.
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