Reply To: The Steipler Gaon on Zionism and on the Neteurei Karta

Yankel: Looking back at the events you keep erroneously citing, you’ve been making several additional factual errors:

1. Schumer never defended arms embargoes against Israel and, in fact, never even supported arms embargoes against Israel.

2. Schumer never mentioned Jewish anti-Zionists in his speeches.

3. Schumer has relatively little influence on establishing arms embargies. And, as stated, didn’t use that little influence, in any case.

4. You are confusing Schumer with Jerrold Nadler, who is one out of four hundred and thirty five members of the House. Nadler did cite Jewish anti-Zionists on the House floor, but not in regards to arms embargoes; he did so in simply stating that anti-Zionism is NOT necessarily anti-Semitism (which is obviously 100% correct; especially Jewish anti-Zionism, which is what he was explicitly referring to.)

5. Even Nadler’s speech referenced only Satmar; NOT Neteurei Karta.

Your very poor attempt to “prove”, with grossly exaggerated and factually false hyperbole, that NK going to Palestinian demonstrations is somehow a pekuach nefesh danger, has fallen flat on its face.

This is all even if you firmly and strongly disagree and oppose NK. Nevertheless, to claim what they do is a pekuach nefesh danger is demonstrably a canard. Of course, it is the position of the NK that what they do is pekuach nefesh in saving Jewish lives, by demonstrating to the world that Judaism isn’t Zionism, and Judaism is opposed to Zionism, and that the crimes committed by the Zionists in Israel isn’t from Judaism, as Jews oppose it; in the hope that if they make this loud and clear enough they might prevent some gentiles who might seek to avenge the crimes of the Zionists from doing so against innocent Jews.

Whether that strategy is ever successful (if it is even succesful in preventing one attack against one innocent Jew, it is a success), you can debate.