Neturei Karta is a little Jewish group telling us that Zionism is an evil, one that has stolen Palestine. Here is an offering from them.
Zionism Is The Root Problem
Zionism! An ideology that is antithetical to Judaism, one fomented by unabashed atheists, heretics and even some ostensibly “religious” collaborators who have sold their souls to the irreligious Zionists for money and power.
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Speech
by Rabbi Yisroel P. Feldman of Neturei Karta Int.at the rally hosted by
the New England Committee to Defend Palestine, to protest the "Boston
Celebrates Israel Festival" in Boston, Mass. on Sunday, June 15, 2003
With God’s help may the words that we speak here today
sanctify God’s name and may it bring peace and brotherhood
amongst His creations.
A – salaam aleikum
We have come to Boston today to protest the celebration of the founding
of the blasphemous and heretical Zionist state taking place here. We
represent Torah true Jews who remain loyal to authentic Judaism, who
know that the root cause of the conflict and instability plaguing the
Middle East, and hence the entire world, is the heresy against G d
called Zionism, and the heinous crimes committed in the name of its
illegitimate “State of Israel”.
Zionism! An ideology that is antithetical to Judaism, one fomented by
unabashed atheists, heretics and even some ostensibly
“religious” collaborators who have sold their souls
to the irreligious Zionists for money and power.
The founding of the Zionist state is in direct contradiction to the
teachings of the Torah, which forbids the establishment of a Jewish
state and commands Jews to remain in exile until they are released
therefrom by G-d himself, without any human intervention, at which time
all nations of the world will live together in peace, and serve their
Creator in unity.
Two thousand years ago, at the time of the Temple’s
destruction, the Jewish people were forbidden by the Creator (Tractate
Ketuboth 111a)
To go up en masse to the Holy Land
To rebel against the nations
To in any way attempt to end the exile
Jews faithful to the Torah are enjoined by the Torah to conduct
themselves as loyal, upright and grateful citizens in their host
countries throughout the world.
The Torah commands us to emulate G-d and to be compassionate. We are
forbidden to unlawfully expropriate land, to subjugate or to oppress
another people. Therefore we protest and mourn the murder, deportation,
subjugation, and oppression of the Palestinian people by the Zionist
hooligans who invaded their homeland, in violation of the Torah, and
have caused so much needless suffering. The list of their crimes is
endless.
The cause of the past, current and, G-d forbid, future suffering is the
aforementioned rebellion against G-d. The tragic and seemingly
intractable conflict in the Middle East is directly attributable to the
wicked actions of the Zionist regime against the indigenous population
of Palestine, against whom the Zionists have been waging war for more
than a century. Thus, the only solution to bring about peace and
harmony is not more war and strife, but rather regime change in
historic Palestine! The Torah’s solution to this dilemma
would be for the world community to actively work towards the
dismantling of the illicit Zionist regime and the restoration of full
Palestinian sovereignty over the whole of Palestine. We firmly believe
that such a solution would not result in Jews being slaughtered
indiscriminately by the Palestinians. In fact, the very existence of
the Zionist state endangers Jewish lives because it constitutes an open
rebellion against G-d. Only when the Palestinian people return to their
homeland as a sovereign nation and only when the scourge of the racist
Zionist occupation has been removed from the sacred soil of Palestine
will Jews and Arabs once again live in peace and harmony, as they have
done for so many centuries, prior to the inception of Zionism some 100
years ago. Only when the Palestinian refugees are allowed to return to
their native soil will there be peace in the Holy Land!
It is a hollow mockery and a desecration of everything sacred to
Judaism that the Zionist heretics base their specious claims to the
Holy Land on the Bible, justifying their mass invasion, colonization,
expropriation and displacement of the native inhabitants of Palestine,
who, according to the Torah, are entitled to sovereignty over the whole
of their native homeland.
By establishing the “state of Israel”, the Zionists
have openly rebelled against the will of G-d’s and the laws
of the Torah and thereby have caused immense pain and immeasurable
suffering to both Jews and non-Jews. At occasions like this where
people celebrate the establishment of the state of
“Israel”, Torah true Jews lament the invidious
attempts by the Zionists to transform Judaism from a religion into a
secular, hypernationalistic and fundamentally racist creed and their
sinister efforts to uproot the Torah’s teachings from the
Jewish people.
We mourn the pernicious effects Zionism has had on the Jewish people
and the Holy Land, including the ongoing desecration of the Sabbath,
the introduction of immodest dress, and immoral media into Jewish
society, and a litany of violations against many of the laws of our
faith, not the least of which is the commandment to be compassionate
toward our fellow man.
The United Nations acquiesced to the establishment of the Zionist state
in the aftermath of World War II with good intentions of providing
assistance and shelter to persecuted Jews. Yet Zionism and Israel have
been a curse and source of suffering for the Jewish people ever since!
Where else have so many Jews died since World War II if not in the
Zionist state? All because of the craven ambition of the Zionists for
power in their brazen defiance of the teachings and values of Judaism!
Anyone with even the slightest knowledge of history and current events
knows that the Zionist state has been one of the greatest tragedies for
the Jewish people, creating conflict with Muslims and Arabs, with whom
Jews have lived in peace and harmony for many centuries throughout the
world from Morocco to Iraq, from Casablanca to Baghdad!
Judaism is not Zionism! Judaism is the faith of the Jewish people in
G-d and His Torah. Zionism is the racist anti-Jewish ideology of a band
of gangsters who managed to deceive so many Jews into thinking that
only they can protect Jews from external threats to their existence.
These criminals are known to have actively encouraged anti-Jewish
feeling throughout the world in order to compel Jews to immigrate to
the Zionist state as a safe haven. Need we remind ourselves of what the
Zionists did to fool Jews in Yemen, Iraq and Egypt into moving to their
state by planting bombs in synagogues, assassinating innocent Jews and
beguiling G-d-fearing Jews with their false proclamations that the
Messianic era had arrived and that the promised ingathering of the
exiles had begun?
Anti-Jewish prejudice is the lifeblood of Zionism! Without it, Zionism
could not survive! Zionism seeks to label anyone opposing its policies
as “anti-Semitic,” which is utterly false, both
logically and factually!
We implore the Jewish people to return to G-d and His Torah, to totally
disavow the blatant heresy of Zionism and its so-called
“State of Israel”. Repent and return! G-d and his
Torah are waiting for you. Only in this manner will G-d stop punishing
us. Only with the Jewish people's collective rejection of Zionism will
the tragic reports of carnage and terror in the Holy Land cease.
We beseech the Muslim community not to make the tragic mistake of
equating Judaism with Zionism. You must know that they are in fact two
extreme opposites. Do not accuse the Jewish people of being Zionists.
Do not accuse the Jewish people of being your enemies. The fact is that
the Jewish people commiserate with your suffering. The Jewish people
truly feel your pain. We are totally embarrassed, horrified, and pained
by the actions of our wayward brothers. Let us recall our past
friendship and let us work to restore it.
We plead with the honorable leaders of the great powers to carefully
consider the underlying reasons for the anger and conflict in the Holy
Land! It is of the utmost urgency that leaders realize and acknowledge
that the true source of this is the injustice committed the creation of
a Zionists State!
We who are loyal to our Torah and the teachings of our authentic rabbis
throughout history pray and yearn for the speedy and peaceful
dismantling of this Zionist State of “Israel”. We
anxiously await the day of messianic redemption when the entire world
will serve G-d in brotherhood and harmony.
As the prophet Isaiah says (11:9):
“For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the L-rd, as
waters cover the sea.”
And as the Psalmist declares that one day all nations will unite in the
service of G-d (Psalms 102:23):
“…when the people are gathered together, and the
kingdoms, to serve the L-rd.”
And finally, as Jews each year on Rosh HaShannah express their desire
for mankind to recognize the Creator and to worship Him in brotherhood
and unity
“…and they will be joined in one united group to
do Your will wholeheartedly.” Amen.
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