Racism from the Halakha (religious)
- Quotation from Yosef Kalner “All secular Jews are traitors” — June 11 2018
Rabbi of the Bnei David Military Preparatory Academy in the settlement of Eli in the West Bank. - Quotation from Yitzhak Yosef “Gentiles should not live in the Land of Israel” — Mar. 26 2016
Chief Sephardic rabbi of Israel, son of Ovadia Yosef, tells congregants that according to Jewish law, indigenous Palestinians and other non-Jews "should not live in the land of Israel". - Quotation from Noam Perel “An army of avengers … that will not stop at 300 Philistine foreskins” — Jul. 2 2014
Rabbi of Jerusalem, Secretary General of the World Bnei Akiva, using the Bible as a guide for a call to slaughter. - Quotation from David Lau “The kushim who get paid in Tel Aviv beat the kushim who get paid in Greece” — Jul. 30 2013
Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel, urging Jews to read the Torah (the Talmud) instead of watching basketball games. - Quotation from Aharon Shteinman “Did God create the world for these murderers? ” — May 2012
Spiritual leader of the Degel Hatorah faction of the United Torah Party - a member of the government at the time - explaining that the world was created for people... who study Torah, the others being murderers, thieves or fools. - Quotation from Ovadia Yossef “Goyim were born only to serve us” — Oct. 2010
Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, during his Saturday night sermon, on different dates. - Quotation from Ovadia Yossef “They’re stupid. Their religion is as ugly as they are” — Dec. 2009
Former Sephardic Chief Rabbi, about Muslims, during a Saturday evening sermon. - Quotation from Yitzhak Shapira “There is a reason to kill babies” — Nov. 9 2009
Kahanist rabbi of Od Yosef Chai Yeshida in Yitzhar settlement, in a book published in 2009 (English title : The King’s Torah). - Quotation from Meir Sheetrit “Who needs them [Falashas] ? They are all Christians” — Aug. 4 2007
Interior Minister, flattering anti-black racism, about the prospect of more Falashas immigrating to Israel. - Quotation from Naftali Tamir “Asia ... Australia and Israel are not - we are basically the white race” — Oct. 13 2006
Israeli Ambassador to Australia, in an interview with the daily newspaper Haaretz. - Quotation from Marek Edelman “Kill twenty Arabs as long as one Jew stays alive” — Apr. 12 2006
Member of the Bund, anti-Zionist, leader of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, answering an Israeli journalist who asked him blandly if it was not "logical" that the Jews should do "everything to survive". - Quotation from Ovadia Yossef “Blacks will study the Torah? [God said] let’s bring a tsunami and drown them” — Jul. 2005
Former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, establishing a divine accounting during a Saturday evening sermon. - Quotation from Eyal Karim “The Torah permitted to satisfy the evil urge” — Dec. 1 2002
In 2016, Eyal Karim (Krim) was appointed head of Israel’s military rabbinate by Gadi Eisenkot, one of the architects of the “disproportionate” war against the Palestinians. Karim had explained in 2002 that the Torah permitted soldiers to rape women in times of war. - Quotation from Ovadia Yossef “In the old city of Jerusalem they are swarming like ants. They should go to hell” — Jul. 27 2001
Former Sephardic Chief Rabbi, on the occasion of the commemoration of the destruction of the first temple in the 7th century B.C.E. - Quotation from Ovadia Yossef “You must send missiles to them and annihilate them” — Apr. 12 2001
Former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, during a sermon. - Quotation from Ovadia Yossef “God regrets having created these Ishmaelites [Arabs]” — Aug. 5 2000
Former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, religious leader of the Shas party. - Quotation from Ovadia Yossef “How can you make peace with a snake” — Aug. 2000
Ex-Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel (1973-1983), who became the spiritual leader” of the religious Shas party, in his Saturday evening sermon, about peace with the Palestinians. - Quotation from Ovadia Yossef “The six million Holocaust victims were reincarnations of the souls of sinners” — Aug. 2000
Ex-Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel (1973-1983), who became the “spiritual leader” of the religious Shas party, resuming the religious rationalization of the genocide of European Jews. Saturday sermon. - Quotation from Haim Miller “I don’t sign orders to destroy the house of Jews, only of Arabs” — Feb. 7 1998
Haredi vice-mayor of Jerusalem, acting as mayor in the absence of Ehut Olmert. - Quotation from Yitzhak Ginsburg “Can you take the liver of (a) non-Jew? The Torah would probably permit that” — Apr. 26 1996
Originally from the USA, influential leader of one of the mystical currents of Judaism, the Derech Chaim movement. - Quotation from Baruch Goldstein “Doctor Baruch Kapal Goldstein, blessed be the memory of the righteous and holy man” — Feb. 27 1994
Tombstone of Baruch Goldstein, who killed 29 people and wounded 125 in the al-Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron / al-Khalil on February 25, 1994. - Quotation from Yaacov Perrin “One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail” — Feb. 27 1994
Rabbi, leading the funeral service of Baruch Goldstein who had massacred 29 Palestinians in the al-Ibrahimi mosque of al-Khalil/Hebron. - Quotation from Yitzhak Ginsburg “Jewish blood and the blood of a goy are not the same thing” — June 6 1989
Extremist Israeli rabbi, concluding in court that killing is not a crime if the victims are non-Jews. - Quotation from Mordechai Eliyahu “It is prohibited to sell houses to non-Jews in the Land of Israel” — Jan. 17 1986
Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, commenting on the attempt by a Palestinian to buy an apartment owned by the KKL/JNF (Jewish National Fund) in Jerusalem. - Quotation from Israel Hess “We are all obligated to carry out genocide” — Feb. 26 1980
Rabbi of Bar-Ilan University, in an article on the obligation to "exterminate Amalek". The article caused no protest but the rabbi had to resign later on. - Quotation from Abraham Avidan “The encountered civilians may, and by Halachic standards even must be killed” — 1973
Rabbi of the central command of the army, nicknamed 'Zemzl', writing in a pamphlet (prefaced by General Yona Efrati of the central command) on the right to kill any non-Jewish and non-impotent person.