GAZA, (PIC)-- The League of Palestinian Scholars (LPS) has expressed utter dismay at the world's silence towards the edict issued by a Jewish rabbi allowing the killing of non Jews even if they were toddlers "if they posed threat to the nation".

The LPS said in a statement on Tuesday that the edict issued in the book The King's Torah written by rabbi Yitzhak Shapiro reflected a "bloody mentality" that allows killing babies in order to achieve racist, political gains.

It noted that the latest war on Gaza displayed such mentality in action when children were killed, trees uprooted and infrastructure destroyed, and recalled past massacres against the Palestinian people.

The League was surprised at the silence of the so-called "civilized world" vis-à-vis such an edict, which, it said, if a Muslim scholar had voiced the world would have immediately reacted by labeling Islam as "terrorist and bloodthirsty".

"It is so strange that the UN, UNICEF, The Vatican and human rights groups did not react to such an edict that allowed the murder of children", the LPS elaborated.

The League said that the rabbi who issued the edict should be prosecuted and his book should be banned from circulation.