I meant well known among talmidim of the Brisker Rov and talmidim of Rav Gorelick.
Which doesn’t really help for those of us (which probably includes everyone reading this) who are not talmidim.
There’s no stira about people, including the CC, having esteemed RAIK when he was in Europe and prior to his having moved to EY and taken the public zionistic positions he took that he had not adopted prior to that time, while losing that esteem once he took his (new) public positions in EY.
First of all, all the evidence I quoted was AFTER R’ Kook moved to Eretz Yisrael. Second of all, the stories of “Kook shmook” were not in response to Zionistic positions; they were responses to a specific statement and a specific writing, both of which I showed earlier to be inaccurate.
Professor Shapiro as well, doesn’t do anything other than say that Weinman documented it. That doesn’t help anymore than what you already said here. On a side note, I think you quoting Professor Shapiro surpasses me quoting R’ Menashe Klein – http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/any-heter-to-not-get-drunk-on-purim/page/2#post-560143 ???.