Scholars will surely find subtle differences between these pogroms and those suffered by European Jews at the hand of Nazi gangs and other anti-Semite thugs, but nothing that can justify calling the comparison "disgusting."
The Jewish terrorist groups and their supporters are a minority, but they are hardly a fringe element. Among their supporters they count the leadership of the Gush Emunim settlers' movement. Their pogroms enjoy wide support among settlers and right-wing American and Israeli Jews (check these photos of "moderate" Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert hobnobbing with Genocidal Rabbi Yisrael Ariel at the Temple Institute).
http://www.templeinstitute.org/current-events/Olmert-visit
Goldstein, whose tomb has become a shrine, is a hero among the fundamentalist settlers. Iga'al Amir, who assassinated Rabin in 1995, claimed to have acted according to Jewish law. Their actions have been defended and justified by influential rabbis in Brooklyn and Israel, such as Abraham Hecht, Dov Lior and Nahum Rabinovitch.
Rabbi Meir Kahane, leader, chief proponent of Jewish racism, and founder of two terrorist groups, had a regular column for thirty years in the "respectable" Brooklyn-based Jewish Press, an influential publication with print circulation of 160,000. On its webpage the other day, they had an article that prepares the ground for the assassination of Amram Mitzna, the Labor candidate for the coming election in Israel, accusing him of reviving Hitler's "final solution" for Jews. http://www.thejewishpress.com/news_article.asp?article=1841
The Jewish terrorist groups and their supporters are a minority, but they are hardly a fringe element. Among their supporters they count the leadership of the Gush Emunim settlers' movement. Their pogroms enjoy wide support among settlers and right-wing American and Israeli Jews (check these photos of "moderate" Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert hobnobbing with Genocidal Rabbi Yisrael Ariel at the Temple Institute).
http://www.templeinstitute.org/current-events/Olmert-visit
Goldstein, whose tomb has become a shrine, is a hero among the fundamentalist settlers. Iga'al Amir, who assassinated Rabin in 1995, claimed to have acted according to Jewish law. Their actions have been defended and justified by influential rabbis in Brooklyn and Israel, such as Abraham Hecht, Dov Lior and Nahum Rabinovitch.
Rabbi Meir Kahane, leader, chief proponent of Jewish racism, and founder of two terrorist groups, had a regular column for thirty years in the "respectable" Brooklyn-based Jewish Press, an influential publication with print circulation of 160,000. On its webpage the other day, they had an article that prepares the ground for the assassination of Amram Mitzna, the Labor candidate for the coming election in Israel, accusing him of reviving Hitler's "final solution" for Jews. http://www.thejewishpress.com/news_article.asp?article=1841