Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss greeting Ahmadinejad
Hat tip to Squid
Here is a clip of Neturei Karta rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss speaking in front of the Iranian Mission to the UN on May 1, 2011. He is condemning Zionism and Israel while defending the Islamic regime in Iran against charges of anti-Semitism.
http://www.nkusa.org/activities/Demonstrations/20110501.cfm
I guess Rabbi Weiss overlooked Iranian treatment of gays and the Baha'i.
Anyway, this is the joker that the Muslim Student Union of UC-Irvine will lead off next week's anti-Israel bash with. He will be speaking in front of the flagpoles at noon Monday and later that evening at eight in the Biological Sciences 3 building, room 1200.
Neturei Karta is an ultra-Orthodox group which believes that secular socialist Jews had no business establishing a State of Israel -- they should have waited for God to take care of it in his own good time, in his own way.
ReplyDeleteThere is a certain mutual opportunism in making common cause with the Iranian regime, but really, he may have no regard at all for gays or Bahais. Many orthodox Jews don't.
A more pragmatic orthodox scholar I have exchanged emails with also believes that the creation of Israel was a mistake, but, because "so many of my brothers" are now located there, will fight to defend it anyway.
I looked them up in Wikipedia. At tops, there are about 5,000 of them (out of 13,000,000 Jews world wide or 0.00038461 % of world Jewry).
ReplyDeleteLeave it to the UCI MSU to infer that this fruit cake represents any "Jewish" views. It is like representing that those nuts that suddenly start to speak in tongues speak for Christianity.
It seems that misrepresentation is natural to them and part of their culture.
"Neturei Karta stresses what is said in the mussaf Shemona Esrei of Yom Tov, that because of their sins the Jewish people went into exile from theLand of Israel ("umipnei chatoeinu golinu meiartzeinu"). Additionally, they maintain the view - basing it on the Babylonian Talmud [9] - that any form of forceful recapture of the Land of Israel is a violation of divine will. They believe that the restoration of the Land of Israel to the Jews should only happen with the coming of the Messiah, not by self-determination.
Neturei Karta believes that the exile of the Jews can only end with the arrival of the Messiah, and that human attempts to establish Jewish sovereignty over the Land of Israel are sinful."
Miggie and I agree on something. Good day. A much larger number of orthodox Jews teach that what the Nazis did in Europe was God's punishment for the sins of secularism.
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