Is Soros behind the Beit Shemesh riots?
I am sure that many of you have heard of the ongoing unrest in the Jerusalem corridor city of Beit Shemesh between certain anti-Zionist Haredim and parts of the National Religious community.I don't want to get into a discussion of who is right and who is wrong - assuming that the dispute is a real one. That's not the topic of this blog. You can write me whatever you want about it by email, but I will delete comments that are going in that direction. Rather, I want to share with you an interesting theory regarding who might be behind the unrest.
The Sultan Knish - Daniel Greenfield - believes that the bogeyman himself - George Soros - is financing the anti-Zionist Haredim who have allegedly spit in the faces of young girls (and worse).
Many think of Judaism as a single religion, but it has as many denominations and subsets as Christianity does. Orthodox Judaism equally breaks down into countless subsets. Most of the problems in Jerusalem concern 19th century immigrant sects which never reconciled themselves to the creation of the State of Israel, and have in some cases made common cause with Islam.Read the whole thing.
The Neturei Karta, who have been denounced by every mainstream Orthodox denomination, were friendly with the Ayatollah Khomeini and are friendly with Ahmadinejad. They held prayer vigils for Arafat and took blood money from his kleptocracy. They are best thought of as the Jewish version of the Westboro Baptist Church which pickets military funerals, complete with gloating messages after terrorist attacks and assaults on other Orthodox Jews.
One Neturei Karta leader who was famously photographed in a liplock with Iranian genocidal thug Ahmadinejad also met with Neo-Nazis and his children were expelled from school after being taught to cheer terrorist attacks. Other Neturei Karta leaders have met with Farrakhan and Hamas terrorists. But while some NK leaders forbid traveling to Israel, much of the movement (which despite its small size has its own splinter groups) is still embedded in Jerusalem. There it has engaged in a variety of violent incidents against Jewish businesses and residents. And like their Muslim brethren, their feelings for women mirror their feelings for Zionism.
Leftist media describe Neturei Karta leaders as "Anti-Zionist Jews" when they're doing a story on their participation in an Anti-Israel protest in New York or London, but when they attack bookstores or girls' schools in Israel then they are suddenly "Ultra-Orthodox Extremists" even when the people they are attacking are Orthodox Jews.
The Neturei Karta assaults on Jews and their support for terrorists have been a problem for some time. And the outrageous prayer vigils for Arafat and the harassment of Jewish schoolgirls are all despicable and depraved behavior by a corrupt cult which has engaged in kidnapping and child abuse. The NK are not the only ones involved, but they are at the heart of the problem.
However the Soros funded left is exploiting the anti-social behavior of their fellow anti-Zionists to demonize Israel, build a protest movement for their own purposes and launch a wider campaign against religious Jews. Their technique involves conflating violent incidents with local customs to create the appearance of a larger social problem. Thus an assault on a bus is equated to religious soldiers leaving a musical performance which violated their religious sensibilities.
Frankly, I'm not sure I buy into this. While Neturei Karta and Toldoth Aharon (the sect that is largely behind the Beit Shemesh demonstrations) are both anti-Zionist, they are not identical. Toldoth Aharon does not do things like travel to Iran to kiss Ahmadinejad. In fact, most of them refuse to leave Israel at all and have done so for seven or eight generations. I seriously doubt that Toldoth Aharon would knowingly take any kind of support from Soros. Of course, it is possible that Neturei Karta is egging Toldoth Aharon on (they both live in the same neighborhood in Jerusalem).
Hmmm.
Labels: George Soros, Neturei Karta, religious freedom, Toldoth Aharon
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:46 PM
2 Comments:
I didn't say that TA was getting support from Soros. I said that Soros funded NGO's were pushing the issue to the forefront in a domestic and international campaign.
Carl, without "getting into a discussion of who is right and who is wrong", as you say, some of us American friends of Israel are unclear on what's going on. We try to keep reasonably well-informed but sure can't rely on the MSM to paint an accurate picture of anything. With your knowledge and articulateness, you could do that. Could you please amplify on the background or put in context this article at blog Gates of Vienna?
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