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| Author | RabbiMeir Kahane |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Political |
| Publisher | Lyle Stuart |
Publication date | 1987 |
| ISBN | 9780818404382 |
Uncomfortable Questions for Comfortable Jews is a 1987 book by RabbiMeir Kahane, published byLyle Stuart.
Uncomfortable Questions for Comfortable Jews is amanifesto that espouses oppositional beliefs against modern-dayIsrael. This includes forming theIsraeli government as aWestern-styleddemocracy and the allowing ofnon-Jews, especiallyArabs, to become a majority ethnic group in theJewish state of Israel. According to Kahane, the ideology ofZionism can not exist without the sentiments ofKahanism.[1] He also writes against the crime ofracism he was charged with in 1980, stating that without the beliefs of racism andanti-Arabism a Jewish state can not thrive and deems it hypocritical that he was charged with racism for wanting a majority Jewish state with the implications ofapartheid in Israel.[2]
As in his bookThey Must Go, Kahane calls for completeracial segregation ofPalestinian Arabs andArabs in general withJews in Israel, but in this book he also puts out the ideas that Arabs may attempt to get with young Jewish women to eitherconvert them toIslam or rape them.[3] Kahane also states in the book that Israel is "schizophrenic" for wanting both a Zionist state and a democratic state while maintaining its Jewish majority.[4] It's urged in the book thatAmerican Jews makealiyah and emigrate to Israel as amitzvah and is considered obligated by allJews around the world.[5]