ZAKA head hits Neturei-Karta rabbi

Heh, I love this story. Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, chairman of ZAKA and former operations officer for the Ultra-Orthodox community, hit the Jewish man who kissed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, it was reported on Monday. The incident occurred last Friday in Poland during a mass visit of Orthodox Jews to the country in order to honor Hassidic Rabbi Elimelech of Lizhensk. When the visitors arrived at Lizhensk on Friday morning, they heard that Moshe Arye Freedman, a member of the fanatic anti-Israel group Neturei Karta, was present as well. Freedman recently made headlines when he was photographed kissing Ahmadinejad during the Holocaust denial conference in Teheran three months ago. Meshi-Zahav, along with another ZAKA member, quickly located Freedman and set upon him, punching the man, kicking him and breaking his glasses.The fight was dispersed when local police arrived at the scene. As an act of appreciation, Meshi-Zahav was called up to read the Torah in synagogue.

Israel bans anti-Zionists

Neturei Karta members who attended a Holocaust denial conference in Iran will be banned entrance to the State of Israel by Interior Minister Ronnie Bar-On as published in Yedioth Ahronot newspaper on Friday. The conference held over a month ago caused a great storm throughout the Jewish world and Israel, the most shocking detail being the attendance of members of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish group Neturei Karta, who were even photographed kissing Holocaust denier Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Ten of the Neturei Karta members attending the conference have been identified by name, and it was ordered by Bar-On in a letter to the Population Registrar Director Sassi Katzir that these men should be prevented from entering Israel. These men are citizens of the United States and Europe, some of them have visited Israel in the past, and some even have relatives in Israel.

Neturei Karta: "Impostors in hassidic garb"

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An ultra-Orthodox Rabbi granted a rare interview to Army radio here in Israel, and put it very well. He said that no-one should attach any significance to the views of these people. Even mainstream Satmar Hassidut - of which they are a sect - has disowned them. "They don't even represent their own wives." They represent only themselves. Ignore them and move on.

D.

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Impostors in hassidic garb by Jonathan Rosenblum
Jerusalem Post
December 18, 2006

One need not attribute the decision to splash a large photo of a Jew in hassidic garb kissing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the conference of Holocaust denial in Teheran last week to a desire to cast Torah Jews in a repugnant light. What photo editor could resist such an eye-catching shot?

But I will confess to a certain resentment at feeling forced to disavow a handful of clowns who cannot claim the support of one Torah authority for their actions and who have been spit out by the entire Torah world. The Satmar leadership in Brooklyn put it succinctly: "[Those who went to Iran] trampled on the memory of their ancestors and people. They embraced the disciples and followers of their murderers."

As reported by Matthew Wagner in last Thursday's Jerusalem Post, Ha'eda, the official organ of the fiercely anti-Zionist Eda Haharedit, characterized those attending the Teheran conference as a "tiny group of insane people, who are liable to incite hatred against hareidi Jews." The paper's editor, Rabbi Shmuel Pappenheim, lambasted them for having ignored the "opinion of the Torah Sages" in pursuit of their distorted anti-Zionist zealotry.

Ahron Cohen of Manchester, England, one of the attendees at the Teheran conference, has been sent a letter informing him of his expulsion from the hevra kadisha (burial society) to which he belonged, and requesting that he not show his face in the vicinity of Machizkei Hadas, the largest haredi shul in Manchester. He has also
been told that he is persona non grata in the Satmar beis medrash (study hall) of Manchester. Rav Elchonon (Huna) Halperin, the senior figure in the haredi community of Golders Green in London, has issued similar instructions for his beis medrash.

NOR WAS this stance anything new. More than a quarter-century ago, Rabbi Chaim Shmuelevitz, the rosh yeshiva of the Mirrer Yeshiva in Jerusalem, ordered Moshe Hirsch, the self-proclaimed "foreign minister" of a tiny splinter sect of Naturei Karta, out of the Mirrer beit medrash. And a joint statement by Satmar and other American hassidic groups last week noted that these "evil associates of our enemies" were "ejected from our shuls and communities decades ago."

RABBI ELAZAR SHACH said many times that just as one who denies one mitzva of the Torah is classified as an apikorus or heretic, so is one who elevates any mitzva (or supposed mitzva) of the Torah above all others. At a 2002 Hamas rally in Washington D.C., a speaker dressed as a hassid justified using a microphone on the grounds that destroying Israel supersedes the prohibitions of Shabbat.

But even were this tiny group that turns up at every anti-Israel rally where there are likely to be cameras scrupulous in their observance of Shabbat, their behavior would mark them as imposters posing as religious Jews.

"The seal of the Holy One, Blessed be He, is truth," say our sages. Yet those who traveled to Teheran last week willingly and knowingly gave credence to the greatest lie of modern times.

Only a Jew driven mad by hatred of Zionism and the state of Israel could ever join hands with the greatest butchers and would-be butchers of Jews in modern times. Documents captured in Operation Defensive Shield in 2002 show Hirsch to have been on the payroll of Yasser Arafat, whom he publicly embraced on many occasions.

Decades ago, Hirsch was chosen to be "rav" of the Purim shpiel in his American yeshiva, and he has been playing the part ever since, long after the joke turned sour. Once aroused, the love of attention, even
negative attention, is hard to curb.

THE LEADING theological opponents of Zionism never mistook the enemy of their enemy for their friend. Mayor John Lindsay once paid a campaign visit to the late Satmar Rebbe, Grand Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum, the fiercest ideological opponent of Zionism. After the meeting, the Satmar Rebbe explained why he had not said a word against Israel: "When a gentile hates Israel, he hates Jews."

Nor did a theological opposition to Zionism ever detract from a concern with the physical well-being and security of the Jews of Israel. Agudath Israel from its inception was anti-Zionist. Yet Rabbi Moshe Sherer, the long-time president of Agudath Israel of America, often said that he took a second-seat to no one when it came to the security of Israel.

He repeatedly placed his web of congressional contacts at the service of Israel's leaders. At a June 17,1970 meeting in the Israeli Embassy in Washington, for instance, Rabbi Sherer offered ambassador Yitzhak Rabin "our help in whatever way we could be used."

Even Agudath Israel's general policy against making common cause with non-Orthodox groups gave way when it came to Israel's security. Thus Agudath Israel found a way to participate in a general protest demonstration in front of the UN against the grant of permanent observer status to the PLO.

In this regard, Rabbi Sherer always quoted the words of his mentor, Rabbi Aharon Kotler, during the Holocaust. When some questioned Rabbi Kotler's readiness to join forces with Reform leader Stephen Wise for rescue, Reb Aharon replied, "I would work with the pope if it would save even the fingernail of one Jewish child."

Passionate concern with every Jewish life has characterized every Torah leader throughout the generations. Those who provided aid and comfort last week to a madman who has repeatedly threatened to wipe Israel and its five million Jewish citizens off the map demonstrated thereby that they have no place in the camp of Torah.

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Expel the Neturei Karta

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Sign the petition to place the Neturei Karta in Cherem.

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Neturei Karta "Rabbi" claims Holocaust dead "deserved it"

A British rabbi who angered fellow Jews by speaking at a "Holocaust denial" conference in Iran now says millions did die in gas chambers but may have deserved it.

Ahron Cohen, an Orthodox Jew from Greater Manchester and a leading member of the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta movement, sparked new controversy on his return from Tehran by suggesting that God would have saved the victims of the Nazis if they had deserved to live.

Cohen, whose house in Salford was pelted with 1,000 eggs last year because of his extremist views, told The Sunday Times: There is no question that there was a Holocaust and gas chambers. There are too many eyewitnesses.

However, our approach is that when one suffers, the one who perpetrates the suffering is obviously guilty but he will never succeed if the victim did not deserve it in one way or another. We have to look within to improve and try to better ourselves and remove those characteristics or actions that may have been the cause of the success of the Holocaust.

Cohen's trip to Tehran along with four American rabbis from the same sect was paid for by the Iranian foreign ministry, which organised the conference entitled The Holocaust: A Global Vision. They were warmly greeted by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, and had two meetings with him.

Cohen ended his speech to the conference with a prayer that the underlying cause of strife and bloodshed in the Middle East, namely the state known as Israel, be totally and peacefully dissolved.

Satmars: Jews at Iran Holocaust conference are reckless outcasts

The Neturei Karta Jews who attended the conference are often confused with the Satmars, who also are anti-Zionist but acknowledge that 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust. Aside from their shared anti-Zionism, Neturei Karta followers and the Satmars both wear long, dark coats and wide-brimmed hats, and have beards and sidelocks.The Satmars say there is no connection between them and Neturei Karta, a group that sent six delegates to the conference under the banner "Jews United Against Zionism."They were led by a rabbi from the New York area, Yisroel Dovid Weiss. He said that while his group does not entirely deny the killing of Jews in World War II, the figures for how many people who died in the Holocaust are exaggerated. He said that "Zionists are using the Holocaust to brazenly and offensively oppress a people."

Rabbis call to excommunicate Neturei Karta members

Israel’s Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger and the Save the Nation and Land rabbinic organization have called for members of the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta sect to be excommunicated. The unusual calls follow the visit to Iran by a group of senior officials of the small sect to take part in a conference aiming to present evidence that the Holocaust never took place. Photographs of the hareidi-looking Jews happily embracing Iranian President MahmoudAhmadinejad have been widely circulated in many countries. Chief Rabbi Metzger called on all rabbis and communities in Israel and around the world to honor the memory of the Holocaust victims byadhering to the cherem call against the Neturei Karta members.

Neturei Karta paid off by Arafat

Arafat uses Rabbi Moshe Hirsch as a tool for propaganda

Among the hundreds of documents (captured from the Muqata during Operation Defensive Shield) dealing with money allotted by Arafat, two were found which related to large sums paid to Rabbi Hirsch for "expenses for activities." The payments in question, one after an other, were unusually large ($25,000 on January 13, 2002, and $30,000 on February 14, 2002) and may indicate that Arafat paid him monthly. It should be noted that the amounts are significantly larger than those given to other cronies, which varied between a few hundred and a few thousand dollars.

A meeting between Araf at and Rabbi Moshe Hirsch in Ramallah, December 17, 2001

+ For several years Arafat has had regular meetings with Rabbi Hirsch, who is known as Neturei Karta's "foreign minister." For Arafat Hirsch serves as an indoctrination and propaganda tool which he uses to demonstrate the cooperation between Palestinians and ultra-Orthodox Jews who hold the same anti-Zionist world view. Thus his readiness to "invest" unusually large sums of money in him.

+ In 1988, when the establishment of a Palestinian state was declared in Algeria, Palestinian sources stated that Moshe Hirsch would become a minister in the government in the future state. In a Palestinian Authority
document dated 1995, Rabbi Hirsch was described as "the Minister of Jewish Affairs." In a speech given by Arafat in the Ramallah-Al Bireh district on January 28, 2002, he noted the depth of the historical ties between all the Semitic religions and gave as an example the fact that Rabbi Moshe Hirsch was a member of the PLO's National Palestinian Council.

Document 1 - Translation
A payment of $25,000 to Rabbi Moshe Hirsch authorized by Arafat ( January 13, 2002)
[Palestinian seal]
The Palestinian Liberation Organization
Office of the President
Ramallah
January 13, 2002
Receipt
I received the sum of $25,000 (twenty-five thousand dollars) exactly for expenses for the activities of Rabbi Hirsch. ["Expenses for activities" was added in Arafat's own hand, following the example of other documents.] Done in accordance with the instructions of [our] brother the president and commander general.
Name and signature of the recipient
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[Written by Arafat:]
To be paid
[Signature of Arafat]
January 13, 2002
A payment of $25,000 to Rabbi Moshe Hirsch authorized by Arafat ( January 13, 2002)
Document 1 - Original
www.intelligence.org.il/eng/sib/9_04/araf_ap17.htm

Document 2 - Translation
A payment of $30,000 to Rabbi Moshe Hirsch authorized by Arafat ( February 14, 2002)
[Palestinian seal]
The Palestinian Liberation Organization
Office of the President
Ramallah
February 14, 2002
Receipt
I received the sum of $30,000 (thirty thousand dollars) exactly for expenses for the activities of Rabbi Hirsch. [The Rabbi's name was written in by hand.]
Done in accordance with the instructions of [our] brother the president and commander general.
Name and signature of the recipient

________________________________
[Written by Arafat:]
To be paid
[Signature of Arafat]
February 14, 2002
A payment of $30,000 to Rabbi Moshe Hirsch authorized by Arafat ( February 14, 2002)

Document 2 -- Original
www.intelligence.org.il/eng/sib/9_04/araf_ap17.htm

Document 3 - Translation
A note from Rabbi Moshe Hirsch addressed to "Abu 'Amar, may he have a long and happy life, amen!" in which he requests a meeting and reminds Arafat of "something," apparently a reference to the receipt of money1

1. The letter was among the documents captured in Operation Defensive Shield

The Palestine Liberation Organization
The Palestinian National Authority
Office of the President
To brother president Abu 'Amar
(Salutations)
Attached: [A letter for] his honor from Rabbi Hirsch
In re: Request for a meeting with his honor
Contents :
[Rabbi Hirsch] congratulates his honor on [the anniversary of] the declaration of the founding of the independent state and [on] the month of Ramadan, and also requests a meeting with his honor.
[Regards]
Gaza , November 18, 2001
The administration for political affairs
[Handwritten note in margin:]
The brothers in public relations
The brothers in the ceremonies (department)
The brothers in security
To be taken care of accordingly
[Three names appear,
two which are illegible and]
Dr. Ramzi
Note : Enclosed within the attached letter was a note written by Rabbi Hirsch on November 15, 2001, addressed to "Abu 'Amar, may he have a long and happy life, amen." In it he congratulates Arafat and the Palestinian people on the first anniversary of the declaration of the Palestinian state and asks to meet with him at the earliest possible opportunity [which in fact took place on December 17, 2001, see the picture at the beginning of this posting]. He also mentions something about a messenger who brought him "something" from Arafat a short time before. It was apparently a reference to payments brought to him by messenger.

Document 3 - Original (Attached letter)
www.intelligence.org.il/eng/sib/9_04/araf_ap17.htm

Document 4 - Original (Congratulatory note)
www.intelligence.org.il/eng/sib/9_04/araf_ap17.htm

Arafat addressed as "Abu 'Amar, may he have a long and happy life" in Rabbi Hirsch's note.

Satmars denounce Jewish Shoah conference attendies

Satmars denounce Jewish Shoah conference attendies

Six Jews who attended a Holocaust denial conference in Iran have come under intense criticism over the visit, with one of the world's largest Hasidic groups denouncing them as "reckless outcasts."

The Jews who went to Iran "trampled on the memory of their ancestors and people. They embraced the disciplines and followers of their murderers," said a statement from the Satmar leaders of Congregation
Yetev Lev in Brooklyn.

The Jews who attended the conference are often confused with the Satmars, who also are anti-Zionist but acknowledge that 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust.

The Satmars say there is no connection between them and Neturei Karta, a group that sent a half-dozen delegates to this week's conference in Teheran under the banner Jews United Against Zionism.
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Satmar Hassidism calls on public to shun Neturei Karta reps who visited Iran

The Satmar Hassidism Court published a statement Thursday night calling on the public to disassociate themselves from the Neturei Karta members who visited Iran to attend the Holocaust denial conference this week.

The statement called the participation at the conference "an act of madness," and urged the public "to keep away from them and condemn their actions." (Neta Sela)

Rightist distributes flyers calling for boycott of Neturei Karta

Members of the Front for National Judaism called for a boycott of Neturei Karta and distributed fliers to this effect entitled "Leave the tents of these evil people."

The fliers feature a picture of a Neturei Karta rabbi, sitting between two women and waiting for a turn to meet with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Statement from Agudath Israel of America

Regarding this disgusting photo, I reprint the following statement from Agudath Israel of America that I received by email:

There should be no need to state the following, but to avoid any misconceptions in the media or among members of the public, Agudath Israel of America proclaims strongly and unequivocally that the visibly Jewish men who regularly appear publicly with virulent anti-Semites and claim to represent Jewish Orthodoxy not only do not represent anyone but themselves but are a disgrace to the Jewish people.

Most recently, they presented themselves at the much and properly vilified Holocaust denial "conference" in Teheran, where widely-disseminated photographs captured the pitiful spectacle of their greeting and shaking hands with Iran's demonic president. Neither their professed determination to protect the interests of Jews nor their haredi garb can obscure the fact that all they accomplish is to offer succor and support to people who eagerly wish to do grave harm to Jews.

There are many groups within the Orthodox community, and they represent widely differing positions on the concept of political and religious Zionism. All responsible Orthodox groups, however, have condemned the group at issue in no uncertain terms. Agudath Israel joins in that condemnation and declares that the group is not only deeply misguided and misleading of the public but dangerous to the true interests of the Jewish People.

Two sides of the same toilet paper

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is already morally corrupt, greets his counterpart, a morally corrupt rabbi at the Holocaust Denial conference hosted in Tehran this past week. This picture is from Der Spiegel.

Update: This is Neturei Karta Rabbi Moishe Arye Friedman shaking hands with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during Ahmadinejad's meeting with participants of a conference on the Holocaust, in Tehran, December 2006. Another picture of the filthy rabbi is here.

Program and roster of speakers at so-called holocaust conference in Teheran (include Neturei Karta)

The conference is over, but here is the program and roster of the misanthropes at the so-called holocaust denial conference held in in Teheran (include Neturei Karta) this week:

Who is Mr. Moshe David Weiss: USA (speaking in the first session)? Is this Neturei Karta?

ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN - Tehran

International Conference

"Review of the Holocaust: Global Vision

10-12 December 2006

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Program

Monday, 11 December 2006

Opening Session - 09:00-10:00 - Alborz Hall

Chairman: Dr Manouchehr Mohammadi, Deputy Foreign Minister for Education & Research, Iran

1. National Anthem of the Islamic Republic of Iran

2. Recitation of Holy Quaran

3. Informative Report on the Seminar

4. Message of H.E. Dr Ahmadinejad, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran

5. Address by H.E. Manouchehr Mottaki, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Islamic Republic of Iran

Break: 10:00-10:20

10:30-12:00

FIRST SESSION: HISTORICAL SURVEY, CONCEPT & EVIDENCE

Chairman: Mr Mohtashamipour, secretary general of international conference on supporting Palestine People, Iran

1. Mr Moshe Ayre Friedman: Austria

2. Robert Faurisson: University Professor, France

3. Mr Moshe David Weiss: USA

- Q & A -

Lunch & Prayer: 12:00-14:00 [Smooth: Shyeah, pray to your moon-gods and demons, schmucks]

SECOND SESSION: DEMOGRAPHY, DENIAL OR CONFIRMATION

Chairman: Dr Rahmandost, head, Society for supporting People of Palestine, Iran

1. Jan Bernhoff: Sweden

"Demography of the Holocaust"

2. Fredrick Töben: Director, Adelaide Institute, Australia

"The Holocaust: murder weapon"; - written text; - presentation

3. David Duke: MAUP University, Ukraine

"A Holocaust Enquiry"

4. Gazi Hussein: Syria

- Q & A -

Break: 15:30-15:45

5. Leonardo Clerici: Chariman, Skriptura Institute, Belgium

"Methodology of the Holocaust"

6. Christian Lindner: Copenhagen University, Denmark

"Danish media and the Holocaust"

7. Mohammad Ali Ramin: University Professor, Iran

- Q & A -

14:00-17:00

SECOND SESSION: DEMOGRAPHY, DENIAL OR CONFIRMATION

Chairman: Dr Rahmandost, head, Society for supporting People of Palestine, Iran

1. Jan Bernhoff: Sweden

"Demography of the Holocaust"

2. Fredrick Töben: Diector, Adelaide Institute, Australia

"The Holocaust: murder weapon"

3. David Duke: MAUP University, Ukraine

"A Holocaust Enquiry"

4. Gazi Hussein: Syria

- Q & A -

Break: 15:30-15:45

5. Leonardo Clerici: Chariman, Skriptura Institute, Belgium

"Methodology of the Holocaust"

6. Christian Lindner: Copenhagen University, Denmark

"Danish media and the Holocaust"

7. Mohammad Ali Ramin: University Professor, Iran

"Necessity of review of the Holocaust"

8. Zariani Abdul Rahman: Author, Malaysia

- Q & A -

14:00-17:00 - Aras Hall

THIRD SESSION: VIEWPOINTS ON HISTORIC APPROACHES

Chairman: Mr Torjanzadeh, Tajikistan

1. Patrick McNalley: University of Chuo, Japan

"A Philosopher looks at the Holocaust"

2. A Pengas: Senior Researcher, Greece

"The geopolitical environment of the Holocaust myth"

3. T Boshe: Senior Researcher, Jordan

"The Holocaust and history"

4. Norman Finkelstein: USA

- Q & A -

Break: 15:30-15:45

5. Abu Ziad Edrisi: Morocco

"Holocaust"

6. Bradley R Smith: Mexico

"The irrational vocabulary of the American professorial class with
regard to Holocaust"

7. Shiraz Dossa: University of Toronto, Canada

"Liberalism, Holocaust and war against Muslims"

©-free 2006 Adelaide Institute

The Adelaide Institute is a Holocaust denial group in Australia and is considered to be both a hate group and anti-Semitic by Australian and international human rights groups.

Judische Selbst-hass: Jewish self-hatred

Folks, "Neturei Karta" is an anti-Zionist organization within the Orthodox Jewish community. Neturei Karta is the poster child for Arab Muslim terrorists. The New York-based movement of Neturei Karta believes that only the establishment of an independent Palestinian state and removal of Israel would bring peace to the Middle East. From IslamOnline.net:

Rabbi Yisrael David Weiss, spokesman of the New York-based Jewish Neturei Karta movement, who is currently on a visit to Paris, expressed solidarity of the Neturei Karta movement, which rejects the creation of the state of Israel, with the Palestinian people against Zionist attempts to pull down Islamic holy sites in the occupied Palestinian territories.

"Zionism, sponsored by Israel, is not an equivalent to Judaism nor represents the Jews," Weiss said.

"Zionism has always proved an obstacle to co-existence between the Arabs and Jews.

"True Judaism urges its followers to show respect to all peoples and the time is now ripe for the Jews to abandon Zionism and its long bloody history," the Jewish rabbi said.

The Jewish rabbi repeated his group's call for the removal of the Jewish state and the setting up of an independent Palestinian state, arguing that was the only guarantee for establishing peace in the Middle East.

Weiss also paid tribute to late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat for efforts to regain the legitimate Palestinian rights.

"Arafat was not just a political leader of the Palestinian people but a symbol for all peoples struggling for national liberation," he said.

"He (Arafat) championed the Palestinian struggle in the battle against the colonialist conspiracy of Zionism which targets, not only Arab and Muslims, but also Judaism."

Weiss had even visited the mass murderer Arafat in November, 2004, during his treatment at the French military hospital of Percy.

Thank you "rabbi", for backstabbing your fellow Jews and for giving us a perfect example of Chillul Hashem (Desecration of the divine name).

If anyone ever wondered where the pseudo-Judaic pagan cult "Neturei Karta", the pro-terror cheerleaders of Arafat and Arab Muslim terrorists, get their money, click here.