Israel's Attorney General has decided not to prosecute two rabbis who wrote a controversial religious text proposing circumstances in which it is permissible to kill non-Jews even if they pose no direct physical threat of violence.
Yehuda Weinstein said remarks in the text, known as the "King's Torah", were "deserving of condemnation and denunciation", but also added that an investigation had failed to produce enough evidence to justify an indictment for incitement.
Critics of the text, whose religious Zionist authors come from the notably hardline West Bank settlement of Yitzhar, argue it is racist and could be read as sanctioning the murder of Arabs.
According to advertisements denouncing the text, published last year by Brit Hoshech Legaresh, a broad organisation of Israeli Orthodox, Reform, Conservative and secular Jews, it suggested "every place the presence of a non-Jew endangers a Jewish life it is permitted to kill him even if he is one of the righteous among gentiles and bears no guilt for the situation that has been created." It also reportedly says killing children would be permissible if they are being raised with the objective of harming Jews, to prevent them growing up as enemies.
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