Neturei Karta
Neturei Karta ( Aramaic נטורי קרתא, dt. "Guardian of the city", that is, Jerusalem ) is an ultra-orthodox Jewish group that was formed in 1938 and vehemently rejects Zionism and the State of Israel for religious reasons and therefore cooperates with anti-Semites and Holocaust deniers .
history
The organization emerged in 1938 as a split from the Agudat Jisra'el organization , when it became less and less anti-Zionist . According to the group, after the return of the Jewish Messiah, a new Israel will arise as "a kingdom" without human intervention and without force of arms, "whose basis will be divine service". Since the Torah forbids ending exile and establishing a state, Neturei Karta also rejected the establishment of Israel in 1948 .
The group has several synagogues around the world (including Tora Ve'Yira - Jerusalem , Tora U'Tefila - London , Tora U'Tefila - New York , Beis Yehudi - Monsey, NY). The parishes of the Neturei Karta follow the customs (Hebrew Minhagim ) of the Gaon of Vilnius , because the origins of these parishes are in the Lithuanian and not in the Hasidic part of ultra-Orthodox Judaism.
Since 2006, when Moishe Aryeh Friedman was a speaker at the Al-Quds-Tags demonstration in Berlin, several Neturei Karta rabbis have appeared at the Al-Quds-Tags demonstration every year and run in the front row.
In 2007, the Neturei Karta Synagogue in Monsey, New York, burned down and was completely destroyed.
criticism
The emphatically anti-Zionist position of Neturei Karta leads to strong polarization within the Jewish community: It is rejected by most other ultra-orthodox and orthodox as well as non-orthodox Jews.
In the Arab and Islamic world, however, Neturei Karta has many advocates. The common anti-Zionist position resulted in a collaboration between Neturei Karta and the PLO . According to the Israeli secret services, the analysis of Palestinian documents is said to have shown that Neturei Karta regularly received financial support from the coffers of the PLO controlled by Yasser Arafat and that Rabbi Moshe Hirsch, leading activist of Neturei Karta, was himself a member of the PLO. Neturei Karta also saw Hamas and the Hezbollah militia as comrades-in-arms in the fight against the Jewish state .
In December 2006 Moishe Aryeh Friedman and other leading members of the Neturei Karta took part in a globally controversial Holocaust denial conference in Iran in 2006 in Tehran , organized by the Iranian government .
In response to criticism of their participation, the organization stated:
"We affirmed the reality of the mass murder of Jews during the Second World War."
"We reaffirmed the reality of the mass murder of Jews during World War II."
Web links
- Organization website
- President Ahmadinejad Meets Neturei Karta Rabbis , Tehran, Sept. 24, 2007 (YouTube film)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neturei Karta Movement Beware of enemies! , from Baruch Rabinowitz, Jüdische Allgemeine December 21, 2006
- ↑ Matthias Kamann: Jewish Israel-haters received in the Chancellery. In: world. February 5, 2014, accessed January 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Ultra-Orthodox against the State of Israel “The idea of Zionism is an attack on our religion” , by Stefanie Oswalt, DeutschlandRadio Kultur May 6, 2018
- ↑ The Rabbi Who Wants to Abolish Israel , by Viktoria Kleber, Die Zeit July 30, 2010
- ^ Anti-Israel protests in Berlin The Unconcilable , by Mareike Enghusen, Stern Online July 25, 2014 11:16 pm
- ↑ Video on Al-Quds Day in Berlin Police officers ignored hate speech against Israel , by Andreas Kopietz, Berliner Zeitung July 14, 2015
- ↑ Al-Quds-Demo And again the Jews haters were allowed to move through Berlin Thomas Kieschnick BZ June 23, 2017
- ↑ Fire destroys Neturei Karta synagogue, rabbi's residence in Monsey, NY ( Memento of the original from November 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Umbrella Group of Orthodox Condemn Hareidi PLO Sympathizers: Condemnation of Hareidi PLO Sympathizers. Jewish Media Resources, accessed December 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Two extraordinary payments of $ 25,000 (…) and $ 30,000 (…), show that Arafat often gave payoffs to Hirsch ( Memento of the original from December 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Helga Embacher, Bernadette Edtmaier, Alexandra Preitschopf: Anti-Semitism in Europe. Case studies of a global phenomenon in the 21st century. Böhlau, Vienna 2019, p. 146
- ↑ Neturei Karta Movement Beware of enemies! , Baruch Rabinowitz, Jüdische Allgemeine December 21, 2006
- ↑ Neturei Karta: Why We Went to Iran (accessed March 7, 2010)
