It’s a made up issue and the people that ever make any hay of it, besides being excruciating few as Sam said, are only mo zionists angry at Satmar’s shitta on zionism. Sam and no one will be able to name any mainstream, semi-meainstream or even semi-semi-mainstream name that has any issue with Shabbos and Satmar. In fact, the issue has nothing to do with Satmar. The kehilos in Hungary at-large as well as many other places in Eastern Europe had zmanim that Shabbos started and ended later than the common American zman. It not only is a 100% legitimate shitta, but it has nothing to do with Satmar or chasidim in general as it was held by Oberlanders and many other non-chasidic kehilos in Europe. Furthermore, since post-WWII in America Satmar has actually held the earlier zman to start Shabbos (they still use the later zman to end Shabbos) after an agreement between the Satmar Rebbe and Rav Ahron Kotler than the chasidim will start Shabbos later per the then Litvish practice and the Litvish will end Shabbos later per the then Chasidish practice.
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