Rabbi speaks out.

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Very sad events to a very learned gentleman
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It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if the people who did this were wearing brown shirts.
 
I certainly don't condone this action but as usual there is slightly more to this than meets the eye.

Rabbi Cohen is a member of a group called Neturei Karta, which is something akin to ISIL or Westboro Baptist Church in terms of the extreme nature of their views. They are a strictly orthodox sect who are virulently anti-Zionist. There's nothing wrong with that intrinsically but it's a religious view not a political one. They believe that only the Messiah can restore Israel to the Jewish people and that it can't be done militarily or politically. They reject any notion of secularism and the Israel they envisage would be a religiously fundamental one. Anyone not meeting their standard would not be accepted, including Muslims, Christians and secular Jews.

Some members, although not that many, are so violently anti-Israel that they work with countries like Iran and any organisation that seeks the destruction of Israel.

They are considered extreme even by other orthodox Jewish groups who at best display antipathy towards the political state that is Israel. That being so, there is still no excuse for this sort of behaviour.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
I certainly don't condone this action but as usual there is slightly more to this than meets the eye.

Rabbi Cohen is a member of a group called Neturei Karta, which is something akin to ISIL or Westboro Baptist Church in terms of the extreme nature of their views. They are a strictly orthodox sect who are virulently anti-Zionist. There's nothing wrong with that intrinsically but it's a religious view not a political one. They believe that only the Messiah can restore Israel to the Jewish people and that it can't be done militarily or politically. They reject any notion of secularism and the Israel they envisage would be a religiously fundamental one. Anyone not meeting their standard would not be accepted, including Muslims, Christians and secular Jews.

Some members, although not that many, are so violently anti-Israel that they work with countries like Iran and any organisation that seeks the destruction of Israel.

They are considered extreme even by other orthodox Jewish groups who at best display antipathy towards the political state that is Israel. That being so, there is still no excuse for this sort of behaviour.

So he's a nutter this rabbi?

No need to torch his car.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
I certainly don't condone this action but as usual there is slightly more to this than meets the eye.

Rabbi Cohen is a member of a group called Neturei Karta, which is something akin to ISIL or Westboro Baptist Church in terms of the extreme nature of their views. They are a strictly orthodox sect who are virulently anti-Zionist. There's nothing wrong with that intrinsically but it's a religious view not a political one. They believe that only the Messiah can restore Israel to the Jewish people and that it can't be done militarily or politically. They reject any notion of secularism and the Israel they envisage would be a religiously fundamental one. Anyone not meeting their standard would not be accepted, including Muslims, Christians and secular Jews.

Some members, although not that many, are so violently anti-Israel that they work with countries like Iran and any organisation that seeks the destruction of Israel.

They are considered extreme even by other orthodox Jewish groups who at best display antipathy towards the political state that is Israel. That being so, there is still no excuse for this sort of behaviour.

Good post.

They sound like a group to avoid then haha.
 

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