It was originally brought to public attention when health authorities in New York City noticed that there was a spreading epidemic of measles among children in the ultra-Orthodox – i.e. Haredi – community in Brooklyn’s Borough Park and Williamsburg with 17 new cases by 2nd November 2018. (2) Three of these cases were directly linked to recent visits to Israel by the children with their families (3) where there has been quietly crowing measles epidemic among Haredi jews with an eighteen month year old jewish toddler dying from it in Tel Aviv on 1st November. (4) This has been directly attributed to the failure of the child’s Haredi parent to vaccinate them against measles (5) and the fact that the Israeli government does not force jews to been vaccinated unless they want to. (6)
With an estimated 1,200 new measles cases in Israel during the last few weeks (7) it is perhaps unsurprising that the New York Department of Health has explicitly named Israel as the culprit – (8) despite running the risk of the ‘truth being anti-Semitic’ as the late Ernst Zundel was once famously told by a Canadian judge – but despite claims that this is not the case by jewish spokesmen. This has been indirectly confirmed by the jewish organisations desperately trying to vaccinate jewish children against measles in Israel as well as the United States, (9) but particularly by the UK which has suggested a similar link of the measles epidemic among Haredi jews to travel to Israel. What also emerged from the UK response to this growing problem was the damaging admission that Haredi jews whose children are obviously infected with measles are still sending them to school. (10)
Whether this is merely sheer ignorance, representative of the view that jews ‘cannot infected with diseases because they are Yahweh’s chosen people’ (11) or a cynical ploy to infect as many non-jewish children as possible with measles I cannot rightly say. But what I can point out is that unless this issue is addressed then the measles outbreak will only get worse – as it has done by spreading to Lakewood Township, New Jersey (12) and resulted in a three week old jewish baby being hospitalized in Israel – (13) then it will only infect and potentially kill more children. This has been beautifully demonstrated by the fact that 500 Hasidic children in the UK have been subject to emergency vaccination because of this lack of jewish responsibility and apparent belief that diseases don’t effect Yahweh’s ‘chosen people’. (14)
The jewish privilege of not having to conform to basic social rules – like vaccinating your children against infectious diseases – must be abolished immediately.
(1) https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/measles/
(2) https://www.timesofisrael.com/nyc-warns-about-measles-outbreak-among-orthodox-jews-in-brooklyn/
(3) Ibid.
(4) https://www.timesofisrael.com/toddler-dies-of-measles-in-jerusalem-in-first-such-incident-in-15-years/; https://worldisraelnews.com/israel-battles-measles-outbreak-as-infant-dies-of-disease/
(5) https://www.timesofisrael.com/nyc-warns-about-measles-outbreak-among-orthodox-jews-in-brooklyn/
(6) Ibid; https://worldisraelnews.com/israel-battles-measles-outbreak-as-infant-dies-of-disease/
(7) https://worldisraelnews.com/israel-battles-measles-outbreak-as-infant-dies-of-disease/
(8) https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-u-s-authorities-accuse-israel-of-measles-outbreak-in-haredi-communities-1.6631279
(9) https://forward.com/fast-forward/414275/jewish-organizations-urge-parents-to-vaccinate-children-amid-measles/
(10) https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/charedi-leaders-in-uk-urge-families-to-get-the-jab-amid-measles-outbreak/
(11) https://www.timesofisrael.com/nyc-warns-about-measles-outbreak-among-orthodox-jews-in-brooklyn/
(12) https://forward.com/life/414948/lakewood-orthodox-jews-vaccines-measles-outbreak/
(13) https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/infant-becomes-youngest-to-be-hospitalised-in-israel-with-measles/
(14) https://www.timesofisrael.com/500-british-kids-get-emergency-vaccinations-after-measles-spreads-from-israel/
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