Reply To: Jews Were Protected From Assimilation By Being Despised and Uncivilized

mdd, you are wrong. Rav Elchonon in his sefer quotes the Chofetz Chaim in a letter saying that that the Zionists are “real Amalekim”. Of course, he didn’t necessarily mean the Kerem B’Yavneh students, who are religious, but Rav Elchonon Wasserman, the Chofetz Chaim’s talmid, writes in Kovetz Maamarim that Zionism (nationalism he calls it) is Avodah Zorah, and so religious Zionism is nothing but Avodah Zorah mixed with religion (shituf).