{"id":1073,"date":"2014-06-03T20:43:47","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T18:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2014-06-03T20:43:47","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T18:43:47","slug":"israels-medieval-ban-on-intermarriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/2014-06-03\/israels-medieval-ban-on-intermarriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel&#8217;s medieval ban on intermarriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1806099279.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1074\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1806099279.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1806099279.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1806099279-300x173.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>Here is a simple infographic (possibly behind the Haaretz paywall) setting out how Israel has engineered a series of hurdles to prevent intermarriage, especially between\u00a0Jews and non-Jews.<\/p>\n<p>There are no civil institutions in Israel dealing with marriage (and many other personal status issues), meaning that only hardline Orthodox rabbis get to determine who marries a &#8220;real Jew&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Israel dresses this up as an attempt to protect\u00a0religious tradition, but actually it&#8217;s religious coercion designed to prevent assimilation &#8211; the greatest threat to Zionism, Israel&#8217;s state ideology.<\/p>\n<p>So this kind of medieval enforcement of segregation according to sect, tribe or race (depending on how you look at it) is actually required by the very nature of a Jewish state \u2013 sorry, I meant Jewish and democratic state.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/jewish-world\/shavuot\/.premium-1.596576\" target=\"_blank\">www.haaretz.com\/jewish-world\/shavuot\/.premium-1.596576 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a simple infographic (possibly behind the Haaretz paywall) setting out how Israel has engineered a series of hurdles to prevent intermarriage, especially between\u00a0Jews and non-Jews. There are no civil institutions in Israel dealing with marriage (and many other personal status issues), meaning that only hardline Orthodox rabbis get to determine who marries a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27],"class_list":{"0":"post-1073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-israel-racism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}