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His spokesman, Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, is a figure who bluntly calls the state of Israel a monster that must be removed from the world map.
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It’s rare to see rabbis or Jewish religious leaders with miniature Palestinian flags pinned to their jackets. But the Neturei Karta group is anything but conventional.
They are the Haredi Jewish religious group whose name in Aramaic means “Protector of the City.” The city in question is Jerusalem and the group was founded on their refusal to accept or recognize the state of Israel.
Rabbi Weiss became one of the main figures of the group. “Zionism is the transformation of Judaism, from religion, from submission to God to a material concept of nationalism. This is unacceptable to people who want to serve God. To create this nationalism, they removed God from the equation, “he told Russia Today.
“We were warned by the prophets that we would be expelled from the homeland and that happened with the destruction of the temple [di Yerusalem] 2,000 years ago. We cannot return en masse — this is God -ordained exile — and we will not rebel against any country where we live, “he said.
“We must be loyal citizens and pray for the well -being of the land that hosts us. Nor can we strive to end the exile.”
For those unfamiliar with the Torah — the central part of the Jewish Bible — Rabbi Weiss’s sentiments may be quite revolutionary.
The Neturei Karta group believes they are following their holy book, and that leaving Palestine is an act of God.
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They also think their religion instructs them to publicly protest what they perceive to be offenses in the name of Judaism.
They specifically wanted to make people understand that there is a fundamental difference between an Israeli and a Jew.
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