A haredi Orthodox leader claims that the murder of a young couple killed in a Palestinian attack in front of their children is the result of the annual gay pride parade in Jerusalem.
Eitam and Naama Henkin were murdered near the West Bank settlement of Itamar while driving home from an event in Hebron with their four children, none of whom were wounded in the attack.
On Sunday, Rabbi Meir Manuz spoke at a memorial event in Jerusalem marking the sheloshim, or 30 days, since the couple’s death.
“Gay pride parade? Pride in what?” he said. “What pride is there in opposing nature? What pride is there is opposing God? For this comes punishment.”
The remarks were videotaped and posted on the Hebrew-language Walla news website.
Two of the Henkin’s four children attended the memorial.
Manuz told Jews to stop performing “immoral acts.”
“We must avoid acts of Sodom and Gomorrah that have multiplied over the past year,” he said.
Manuz is the head of Tunisian Jewry in Israel, heads the Kisse Rahamim yeshiva in B’nei Brak, and is the spiritual head of the Yachad political party founded by former Shas Party leader Eli Yishai.
H/t: LGBTQ Nation
Brian JC Kneeland
he is an idiot! He also is showing terrible hate!
Kevin J Desmond
I guess he forgets that the gays helped the jews in WWII
Cam
Meanwhile in Gaza it is illegal to be gay punishable officially with 10 years in prison, and unofficially by being beaten and possibly killed by the police.
Kenny Walker
If ever anyone should understand what hatred and victimisation is like; it should certainly be the Jewish communities throughout the world. This Rabbi wants to recall the holocaust!
Joel Wind
Stupid jackass.
John Howard Fearman
The dementia and altzheimers has really kicked in then. Such a chosen one.
Bill Beaton
Clearly demonstrates popular religion as a force for evil.
Kangol
Does this old hom0phobic nutcase not realize Israel is occupying the West Bank and huge parts of the Palestinians’ homelands, or that the Israelis drove them out of others in what became pre-1967 Israel? Maybe start there and work backwards, huh?
gjg64
And maybe those idiot parents should have moved into an occupied territory/war zone with young children and taken land from the people who live there?
SeeingAll
He’s Hasidic, and they are the most non-Jewish of Jews you could ever meet (actually AGAINST wasting time teaching kids too much Science and Math in school), even though they think they’re the only real Jews. This is just one of a zillion nutty beliefs.
SeeingAll
@Kevin J Desmond: Hmmm. Some did. Some were on the other side. (Raoul Wallenberg was probably gay, but so was Ernst Roehm).
Ira Cohen
JUst cause you are a Rabbi des not mean you cannot be a crazy as bigot
Kamal Patel
Oh my how quickly they forget
Hank Londner
Meshugane. A real goyishen kop!
Cam
@Kenny Walker: said… “If ever anyone should understand what hatred and victimisation is like; it should certainly be the Jewish communities throughout the world. This Rabbi wants to recall the holocaust!”
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Actually the Jewish denominations in America and Europe were the first, or among the first major religions to not just allow LGBT’s in, but to actually allow same sex marriage, and LGBT rabbi’s to lead.
Israel allows foreign gay marriages to be recognized, and allows LGBT’s to serve openly in the military for a decade longer than the U.S.
What happened here, is Queerty found one crazy bigoted Rabbi and ran a post on him.
William Noffsinger
No more trees for Israel!
billeetee
To Rabbi Meir Manuz:
And you would spread Hatred, Bigotry, and Intolerance? As the Nazis did to the Jews? What next, Rabbi? Is it the camps you want back and the ovens reheated and the gas chambers restocked?
This is the message that you send?
This is the same message of Netanyahu to Palestine.
Shame on you, Rabbi! Shame on you!
Charles Talluto
Bigotry is worse in religious hypocrites
Masc Pride
@Kenny Walker: I was thinking the same exact thing. Everything old Meir said sounds exactly like things Hitler said about Jews. Bet he’d flip out if someone suggested there’s no pride in being a Jew. What a hypocrite.
Kieran
I guess there was a whole lot of gay hanky panky and Pride parades going on in the Jewish community prior to the Holocaust. Oh wait, that was punishment for killing Christ according to the Evangelicals.
Creig Stearne
Religon = Entitled bigots hiding behind a fairy to spread hate, bigotry and violence.
Alex Goodman
Organized religion is a horrible thing
Lee Swinney
So Stupid!
David Pickersgill
Sorry mate I reckon your hat’s too tight for your head and it’s cutting off circulation to your brain. Either that or you’re batshit crazy
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Very few things make my blood boil more than a Jew spewing bigotry and hatred upon another minority………
Jews are probably the most persecuted group of people in the history of mankind and this vile, disgusting, abhorrent, smelly, filthy pig has the balls to spew hatred upon Gays……………
I was in Albany supporting the measure for Gay Marriage in NY. The orthodox scmubags were there spewing hatred and vile chants. The stench from those pigs was overwhelming. I advised them Hitler would be so very proud of them……………..
silveroracle
Once again religion rears its ugly head.
Michael Edmonds
This Coming from a group who isn’t satisfied performing a mere Bris, but says its ” Law” to suck the infants penis of the blood .
Amazing how religious laws are bent
Michael Edmonds
http://pimppreacher.com/post/70121168276/two-babies-get-herpes-after-rabbis-suck-their
Steven Best
quick everyone! listen to the old fucker in the hat!
alphacentauri
Jewish people are extremely against LGBT people.
Alistair Wiseman
@Kangol:
The Left continues to stubbornly idolize their false Occupation-Myth-god, despite the historical and legal facts that prove otherwise. The time has come to slaughter this holy cow of theirs and present the truth. How could Israel have begun an occupation in 1967 over lands that were already legally assigned to her predecessor (Mandatory Palestine) in 1922?
Bottom line: there is no and never was any “occupation” of “Palestine” because this term, as defined by articles 42 and 43 of the 1907 Hague Regulations, applies only to an entity having sovereign rights to the land in question, which Jordan did not have when she lost control of the West Bank in 1967. This patently false charge has NO BASIS in either fact or law.
Steve Davies
You don’t have to bestupid to be religious, but it does make things easier
John Dobie
What a loathsome hate mongering little man!
Cam
@alphacentauri:
No, actually they were the first large religion in the country to support LGBT rights, to ordain gay rabbis and to provide gay marriage ceremonies. Israel had gays serving openly in the military ages before the U.S. and accepted foreign gay marriage long before the U.S. legalized marriage here.
But you keep right on spouting your bigotry.
SeeingAll
@Cam: You’re defending homophobes, as usual. Another GOP plant.
Sweetie Pie
Oy vey !!!
RobvR
No one would feel sorry for Germans that would have moved to the occupied USSR during WW2 because they were illegal colonists. So were these people. No tears from me, except maybe for their children, who were being raised in hate. This man is no better than the people who killed off the majority of jews in Europe. He only sees hate and he preaches it too.
Cam
@SeeingAll: said… “@Cam: You’re defending homophobes, as usual. Another GOP plant.”
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Actually I’m not defending the Rabbi, I’m defending the fact that the Jewish denominations worldwide were one of the first major religions to fight against homophobia.
So of course you would want to attack me for doing that, because you disagree with anybody unless they are conservative and anti-gay.
Or you put up 50 posts giving out your phone number and apparently trying to get people to meet up with you. (Yes, that was quite creepy on the other post)
Jane Freeman
Poisonous.
Ronnyboy
“Gay pride parade? Pride in what?” he said. “What pride is there in opposing nature? What pride is there is opposing God?
Because believing in magical beings and many other fairy tales is so in line with nature and I love how these freaks all speak for God and isn’t it so convenient that God hates the same people.
Ronnyboy
These people never cease to amaze me. I know that I don’t have all the answers and that’s life for all of us. The difference is that I acknowledge that.
SeeingAll
@Cam: And you try to muddy the waters and veer us away from the homophobia of your GOP-supported Israel. Nice try.
Cam
@SeeingAll:
The sad thing for you BJ, oh wait, I forgot you’re using your other screename here. Is that, like Sarah Palin, you think your weird little quips and misdirection actually work.
What you do is very clear, and your tactics are not just obvious, but by this time boring. The Mormons were far better at the misdirection and deflection during the Prop 8 time, than your screenames are.
Still, it was fun to watch you freak out on Atticus Bennet when you gave him your cell phone number on the other post and kept demanding that he call you. Even people who normally back you up found that one creepy.
SeeingAll
@Cam: And again, you try to move the attention away from your GOP cronies and you’re excusing Israeli homophobia. Those days are almost over. And everybody here sees through your tricks.
Cam
@SeeingAll: said… ” And again, you try to move the attention away from your GOP cronies and you’re excusing Israeli homophobia. Those days are almost over. And everybody here sees through your tricks.”
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And there it is, remember what the post was about? See, that’s that thing you’re refusing to talk about. But you know, Nice try. Because once again, you will always, without fail, defend or deflect attention away from the anti-gay bigot.
(Unless of course you are handing out your cell phone number, as you did on the post below people who say “Masc for Masc” in their profiles.)
So let’s see, you claim Israel is homophobic, so you must be extremely supportive of Palestine, oh wait, that’s right, in another post you were attacking all Muslims. So then what happened…….ohhhhhhhh, you’re obsessed with my posting, just like you were obsessed with Atticus calling you in the other posting.
Awwwwwwww, sweeeeetie, how adorable, you’re a stalker.
SeeingAll
@Cam: And, as you can see by these posts, everybody is fed up with Israel. If we had our way we’d ship you, every freak Rabbi and Evangelist, Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and Sarah Palin there and then sink the whole place. Then the Palestinians can get back to their lives and stop, understandably, hating the U.S.
youarekiddingme
@SeeingAll: You are the one who should be treading very lightly….Watch your comments that they don’t threaten people like you did on “Masc for Masc” or you may find yourself in an ever-increasing amount of legal trouble. Just a bit of advice from someone who knows.
Hussain-TheCanadian
@Alistair Wiseman: What you just posted is nothing but pure nonsense – I recommend you read the following two books written by Shlomo sand: “The creation of the Jewish people” and “the Creation of the land of Israel” – Also Benny Morris would be another interesting read on the history of the Israeli state and its disposition of the Palestinian Arabs.
The Idea that the “Jewish people” were given the land by God is the myth my friend, not the occupation and disposition of the Palestinians.
SeeingAll
@youarekiddingme: You ain’t kidding nobody.
Cam
@SeeingAll:
So let’s see, based on former posts, you hate Muslims, and now you hate Israel, you listed your phone number and demanded Atticus Bennett call you, then flipped out when not only didn’t he call you, but he linked to a site showing that your phone number was in a lit of numbers where anti-gay threats had come from, and now you seem to be freaking out here and trying to distract from the actual conversation.
Quick suggestion, I would guess it might be a good idea for you to have your meltdown in private and not online.
As for this rabbi, the Israel needs to get a handle on the ultra Orthodox over there. Their own version of the Tea Party is doing nothing but causing them trouble.
SeeingAll
@Cam: I’ll make up any position to drive you up the wall. (I wonder if you’ve even met a Hasidim. They’re not everywhere).
Cam
@SeeingAll:
And yet you’re the one that flips out, gives out your number, and seems most effected by other people’s response.
If you weren’t constantly defending anti-gay bigots you might not be so consistently defensive.
Alistair Wiseman
@Hussain-TheCanadian:
The facts are not on your side, but the mainstream media certainly is.
All attempts to claim Arab sovereignty over Israel of today, should be seen with their real intention: The death and destruction of Israel as a Jewish state and the only bulwark of the Judeo-Christian Western civilization in the Middle East.