Tuesday, November 9, 2021

The right to self-defense- Rodef

 https://www.jpost.com/jewish-world/judaism/ask-the-rabbi-the-right-to-self-defense

  Equally significantly, Rabbi Yehuda Henkin (Bnei Banim 3:33) and Prof. Eliav Schochetman (Techumin 19) have compellingly argued (after the Yitzhak Rabin assassination) that rodef cannot be applied to democratically elected government officials, even if one deems their policies to be misguided and dangerous.

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