According to his profile on the United Synagogue, Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet is the Rabbi for Mill Hill Synagogue and Principal of the Rosh Pinah Jewish Primary School in Edgware.
He is a columnist for the Jewish News and Diary Rabbi for The Guardian. He lectures extensively throughout the country as well as abroad, and is married with four children. He is also a member of Lubavitch, a racist and extremist Jewish sect which is growing as British Jewry becomes both smaller and more Orthodox.
But Shochet likes to portray a friendly, even liberal persona, especially to gullible Gentiles (non-Jews). He is what you call media friendly and that was where I met him. It was the last edition of Big Questions hosted by Nicki Campbell, though I understand a new edition begins again in January 2011. The programme I was booked for was plagued by technical problems and in the end was not broadcast but it was recorded in Leicester in the wake of the murder of 9 human rights activists on the Mavi Marmara. The Zionists, led by Shochet, who was a panellist (Big Questions never has an anti-Zionist on the panel) tried to bait one of the survivors of the MM, Alex, for being ‘anti-semitic’. The usual nonsense of course.
In the course of the programme, which was not broadcast, I pointed out that 20 Israeli Jews had died in 7 years of ‘rocket attacks’ from Gaza, compared to some 7,000+ Palestinians. A ratio that even the Nazis didn’t manage in Yugoslavia where it was usually 100 Jews who were killed for every Nazi who died.
Shochet and Jonathan Hoffman of the Zionist Federation shrieked. It is the principle they cried. Presumably the principle being that Jewish blood is invaluable compared to its non-Jewish equivalent.
After the programme I was talking to someone and Rabbi Schochet walked by. I jocularly pointed out that Shochet was a member of Lubavitch, the racist Jewish sect which believes that Jewish life is more precious than non-Jewish life. I asked him whether it was right that the Jewish Oral Law, the Halacha, didn’t treat the killing of Jews and non-Jews as the same. ‘I don’t know what you are talking about’ said the normally unflappable Schochet. Lying comes naturally to these people. ‘This is a Tower of Babel’ he said as he ran off – presumably he wanted me to speak in a foreign language that non-Jews couldn’t understand, because historically the Talmud does indeed rank non-Jews as inferior. That is why a book of Dispensations was drawn up in the diaspora which contained all the foulest excrescences because it was feared that if non-Jews learnt what Jews really thought about them they may pose a danger to Jews.
For those who are interested, the details of all this can be found in ‘Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel’ by the late Professor Israel Shahak of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a childhood survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto and Belsen, and Norton Mezvinsky. [Pluto Press, 1999]
Over time of course these sayings fell into disuse. Jews weren’t willing to follow the chauvinism of their rabbis. There was nothing unique of course in this. The New Testament and the Quoran also have passages that are chauvinist and today, in the context of state policy, would undoubtedly be deemed racist. But we don’t have Christian or Islamic states today that privilege Christians or Muslims over others. Iran oppresses its own Muslims in the name of Islam. Jews are relatively free in that country.
But we have a Jewish state, whose whole existence is predicated on the expulsion and dispossession of the Palestinians. Jewish rabbis provide the ideological legitimation which is why, when Lubavitch Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira, author of the King’s Torah, a book devoted to justifying the murder even of Arab babies, was arrested there was an outcry among the Orthodox.
Shochet of course is a Lubavitch Rabbi and he is not the only one. In Britain he preaches tolerance and even took exception recently to the racism of Israel’s immigration minister who had been warmly applauded by the BNP. He is all sweetness and light but he is also a member of one of the nastiest and most virulently racist Jewish sects. In other words, he is a hypocrite.
Tony Greenstein www.azvsas.blogspot.com
2 thoughts on “RABBI SCHOCHET OF THE RACIST LUBAVITCH”
‘This is a Tower of Babel’ he said as he ran off – presumably he wanted me to speak in a foreign language that non-Jews couldn’t understand – – – I just came across this. You know and I know this is just a stupid lie. I don’t even know what that sort of expression is supposed to mean. But I do remember you. Very well in fact. I refer to you in lectures across this country and beyond as the most vile, self loathing Jew I have ever met. I have a tremendous respect for non-Jews. But I have no respect for you. In fact I am a generally tolerant person as is all of Chabad. So why do I find such despicability in my heart toward you? Perhaps because you lie, you distort, and you make the rat that recently invaded my home look like a mentch. Admittedly for a brief moment there when I saw it I was thinking, I’d seem it before – then I remembered you.
HI I READ YOU DID-RESPECTABLE COMMENT WHICH YOU SAID I LIE . DID YOU READ WHAT ZIO=NAZI RABBIES EAY ABOUT NON-JEWSH TRU JEWISH WILL NOT SAY SUTCH THINGS.
SO ARE YOU A RACIST ZIONIST? HOW YOU SAY YOU HAVE RESPECT TO NON-JEWS YET YOU KNOW WHAT ZIONIST RABBIES SAY ABOUT NON-JEWS THEY SAY THEY ARE NOT HUMAN. DID YOU READ WHAT ZIO=NAZI RACIST RABBI OVADIA YOUSEF JUST SAID ” ALL NON-JEWS ARE ANAML”
2 thoughts on “RABBI SCHOCHET OF THE RACIST LUBAVITCH”
‘This is a Tower of Babel’ he said as he ran off – presumably he wanted me to speak in a foreign language that non-Jews couldn’t understand – – – I just came across this. You know and I know this is just a stupid lie. I don’t even know what that sort of expression is supposed to mean. But I do remember you. Very well in fact. I refer to you in lectures across this country and beyond as the most vile, self loathing Jew I have ever met. I have a tremendous respect for non-Jews. But I have no respect for you. In fact I am a generally tolerant person as is all of Chabad. So why do I find such despicability in my heart toward you? Perhaps because you lie, you distort, and you make the rat that recently invaded my home look like a mentch. Admittedly for a brief moment there when I saw it I was thinking, I’d seem it before – then I remembered you.
HI I READ YOU DID-RESPECTABLE COMMENT WHICH YOU SAID I LIE . DID YOU READ WHAT ZIO=NAZI RABBIES EAY ABOUT NON-JEWSH TRU JEWISH WILL NOT SAY SUTCH THINGS.
SO ARE YOU A RACIST ZIONIST? HOW YOU SAY YOU HAVE RESPECT TO NON-JEWS YET YOU KNOW WHAT ZIONIST RABBIES SAY ABOUT NON-JEWS THEY SAY THEY ARE NOT HUMAN. DID YOU READ WHAT ZIO=NAZI RACIST RABBI OVADIA YOUSEF JUST SAID ” ALL NON-JEWS ARE ANAML”