Posted on 04/05/2012 11:14:39 PM PDT by Love for Israel
A federal court in New Jersey today has scheduled its first hearing for April 16th on a lawsuit against Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein’s International Fellowship of Christians & Jews, the New Israel Fund and several Israeli officials. The lawsuit seeks over $26 million from each Defendant, “for gross violations of human rights and torture arising out of an institutionalized discriminatory policy of disengaging and separating fathers from their minor children”. The three Israeli fathers who filed the lawsuit say Eckstein deceives Evangelical Christians by using their donations to support radical feminists in their anti-father crusade to break up the Israeli family. “These are well-meaning Christians,” says Guy Shamir, spokesman for the Coalition for the Children & the Family in Israel (CCFI). “They support family values and would be horrified at how Eckstein misuses their donations.” Shamir estimates 9,000 fathers every year get trapped into sub-human conditions in the Israeli judicial system. Last year the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights called on Israel to amend its laws to ease the burden on fathers seeking custody or visitation rights with their children. “It amazes me that Eckstein continues to sponsor the anti-father crusade even after all this came to light,” states Shamir. The lead Plaintiff against Eckstein, Sharon Ben-Haim, claims his ex-wife kidnapped his two year-old daughter from the USA to Israel. When he tried to exercise his parental rights under the Hague Convention on international child abduction; he hit a brick wall in the Israeli legal system. “Words cannot express how much I miss my daughter,” says Ben-Haim, “My heart is broken.” The Ben-Haim custody battle was heard in a New Jersey Superior Court. Bonnie J. Mizdol, the presiding judge in that case, ruled that Ben-Haim’s daughter was being illegally held in Israel and ordered her immediate return to the USA. In her August 25, 2011 ruling Mizdol noted, “This Court finds that the entire situation was laden with duress,” concerning the father’s experience in the Israeli judiciary. Israeli authorities refuse to honor the court’s order, which Shamir attributes to a massive campaign by feminists to destroy father-child relationships. “Radical feminist groups have deep pockets to threaten Israeli authorities. A substantial portion of those deep pockets are Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein’s American Evangelical donors,” says Shamir. An Israeli Evangelical father, who does not want to be identified, states his children are being forcibly converted to Orthodox Judaism in the same Israeli family courts. “It fundamentally violates the Human Rights Treaty which Israel signed,” he says. “What is worse is American Evangelicals have no idea they actually cause great harm to the Body in Israel by donating to Eckstein.” Another Plaintiff in this lawsuit, Sol Havivi, is a disabled veteran and single father. He recounts horrible physical and verbal abuse he has suffered while pleading for help. Havivi says he has recordings of an official admitting they distorted their reports to deny him equal access to assistance that they provide to disabled single mothers in similar situations. “Eckstein uses your donated money to perpetuate a fraud against men and has a warped idea of the ‘poor woman’ syndrome,” states Havivi. “Nothing could be farther from the truth.” The International Fellowship of Christians & Jews (IFCJ) quotes Genesis 12:3, which calls on Gentiles to bless Jews, as their justification for collecting donations from Evangelical Christians. The lawsuit states, “While the donors believe in the strength of the families, IFCJ sends money to organizations such as Na’Amat in Israel, which are devoted to the break-up of Jewish families, annihilation of men in divorce, and disengagement of fathers from children.” The IFCJ has already had difficulty securing legal representation in this case. According to the court file, their current attorney is the third after the first two were terminated soon after filing each of their appearances. The IFCJ headquarters in Chicago was not available for comment and their office in Israel was not aware of the lawsuit at the time of this writing.
Reference: Sharon Ben Ham, et al vs. Neeman, et al (#2:12-cv-00351-JLL-MAH)
Sounds like a liberal antisemitic front group attacking Christians and Jews. This article is filled with leftist rhetoric.
First of all, this article was originally published in a Jewish newspaper. Secondly, the plaintiffs are all Jewish Zionists who served in the IDF. I am not sure why you would accuse any of this as being anti-Semitic.
As for anti-Christian, do you really think the Evangelical father is anti-Christian? Didn’t you read the quotes by Guy Shamir that emphasize the good nature of Christians? Let’s not get confused - Rabbi Eckstein is NOT a Christian.
To: tookiesrcookies (originally posted by man_in_tx)
The lawsuit has merit, as far as I can tell. I have given to Wings of Eagles in the past, but no more. Eckstein is associated with elements in Israel who oppose Christians mightily. I have an eyewitness from Israel (FIRSTHAND) who saw this man in action. Not the forced conversion part, but just his general behavior, like staying in a hotel room that goes for over $700 a night — is that what Christians send this guy money to do? Somehow, I doubt it. I am so glad he is being sued. Christians (like me, previously) who are dumb enough to support Eckstein are just as dumb as the Jews who vote for Obama, in my view.
3 posted on 04/06/2012 12:55:55 AM PDT by man_in_tx
That certainly seems over the top. In fact, it seems like boilerplate Jew-hate. And then there's the chattering about the virtues of the UN. And I am no fan of Eckstein.
That statistic is published on the Ministry of Welfare’s web site. As for Guy Shamir, he is well-known and well-respected in the Israeli Knesset and the Israeli media.
Facts are facts whether we like them or not. Zionists care too much about their country than to let corruption overrun the government and ruin the lives of fellow citizens. As a patriotic American, you should understand that.
Like Edmund Burke said, “Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.”
Israeli Ministry of Welfare calls Israeli court system “subhuman”? Thank you for sharing...
Do you think that there is a judicial system that really works well--ANYWHERE?
I don't, but then, I've become rather cynical about that. Money talks SO often.
What do you call it when 40 men freeze to death every year because they had been forced from their homes and onto the street without any access to their assets - or children?
There is a difference between a flawed system and a system with a militant feminist agenda on an extreme anti-father crusade. That is thanks to Eckstein.
Every system has some flaws. The MFA on an extreme anti-father crusade comes from the men-haters, spawned all over the world by unhappy women. They have and will always blame men for their unhappiness.
They are not only wrong and in total denial, they are stupid. Women with brains see that the only ones who suffer are the children. Pride, obstinance, over-weening arrogance and more pride on the part of the weak women who hide behind the stronger militant feminist keep children from being in happy homes.
Because of their mothers' stupidity, arrogance, pride, selfishness and WEAKNESS, the children suffer, suffer and suffer. Dads, wherever they are, are between a rock and a hard place. The balance of power lies with the women these days--leftover of the Feminist Movement.
All any dad can do is be patient with his children and hope they are smart enough, when they reach 18, to see what their mothers had done to them. Too sad!!
Well stated cloudmountain
By the way, do you know who the New Israel Fund is? Talk about radical leftist feminists!!!
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