Rabbis Yitzhak Shapira and Yosef Elitzur will not be prosecuted for their book Torat HaMelech. Shapira and Elitzur wrote in Torat HaMelech that non-Jews who are non-combatants could be killed in times of war. Even babies in their cribs could be killed, they wrote, “if there is a good chance they will grow up to be like their evil parents.”
Rabbis Yitzhak Shapira and Yosef Elitzur will not be prosecuted for their book Torat HaMelech. Shapira and Elitzur wrote in Torat HaMelech that non-Jews who are non-combatants could be killed in times of war. Even babies in their cribs could be killed, they wrote, “if there is a good chance they will grow up to be like their evil parents,” the Jerusalem Post reported.
“When we approach a gentile who has violated the seven laws of Noah and kill him out of devotion to the upholding of these Noahide laws, this is not forbidden…a person who encourages war provides strength to a king and his soldiers who persist with the war. Thus any person in a kingdom who encourages soldiers or tolerates their actions can be considered a dangerous pursuer [rodef], and can be killed.” Ha’aretz quotes the book as saying.
Israel has laws that make incitement to violence and racism illegal.
But Israel’s Attorney General has decided that Shapira, Elitzur and two rabbis who endorsed the book, Yaakov Yosef and Dov Lior, won’t be prosecuted.
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