An anti-Israel Jewish American group recited Kaddish for Gazan terrorists killed during Operation Guardian of the Walls at a demonstration in Los Angeles on Thursday, The Jerusalem Post reported.
IfNotNow, a movement founded during Operation Protective Edge in 2014 to protest Israel’s actions in Gaza and “to end the Israeli occupation,” displayed a banner at the demonstration with the names of the Palestinian and Israeli victims of the conflict and recited Kaddish for them.
Joe Truzman, a research analyst for The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), noted that the list of people for whom the group recited Kaddish included a number of Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists, including Mohammad al-Ata, the brother of Abu al-Ata, an Islamic Jihad leader who was responsible for a number of attacks against Israel and was eliminated by an Israeli airstrike in November 2019.
And just so everyone knows I'm not pulling random names, I'll provide evidence from the militant groups. Mamlouk (First one in black), Issa (in brown), and al-Ata at the end. pic.twitter.com/aa2MYhZ7RX
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) May 28, 2021
In 2018, IfNotNow recited Kaddish for 62 Palestinians, including 50 Hamas members, and held similar demonstrations during Operation Protective Edge in 2014 in ten locations around the US.
The organization responded to the Jerusalem Post report by tweeting: “Apparently, the Jerusalem Post staff believe that mourning the loss of Palestinian life is bad.”
tl;dr: apparently the Jerusalem Post staff believe that mourning the loss of Palestinian life is bad. pic.twitter.com/0qUqhSXNYi
— IfNotNow🔥✡️ (@IfNotNowOrg) June 1, 2021
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Poor misguided miscreants
Do we know if any of them are actually Jewish?
Any thinking person was bewildered about the oppressive scope of calamities that befell on the Jews since Pharaoh to the most recent Holocaust …that is until they witness things like this.
The irony is that instead of the kaddish being a kiddush Hashem, it is a chilul (Rachmana litzlan).
Therefore, by saying kaddish on behalf of them, it will actually push them deeper into gehinom. What a twist!
Who is more despicable/deplorable:- “IfNotNow” or “Naturei Karta”?
Just as brilliant as the blacks that said kaddish for george floyd.
Do the families of the slain terrorists know that a Jew recited Kaddish for their relative. I assume they would be outraged as the deceased is now with 72 virgins.
Will never be able to understand this however we need tolerance for these people they have a neshomo
Suppose Hashem sees me far off the correct way too
We have to pity their distortion of events much the same as netura Karta visits Iran
Nebish
Unity should be our focus
We can hate what they do not them
When a person has mercy on the wicked , he becomes wicked. A lot of crazy people in the world.
Maybe they can learn a Mishna too!
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend” – and if you see traditional Jews as the enemy, then terrorists who seek to kill anyone who looks Jewish, is a friend.
These are Biden voters
akuperma these are no traditional jews, these are outright apikorsim which have aligned themselves WITH the enemy. can we really call them a “friend”?
Some of them are probably Jewish, but there is no way they’re all Jewish. My guess is that most are not, and those that are there’s a problem in their yichus. The Tanach tells us והגבעונים לא מבני ישראל המה because even centuries after their conversion they had not absorbed Jewish middos, and these people are displaying middos even worse than the Giv’onim.
Are they worse than the so-called “neturei karta”? Yes. First, the real Neturei Karta are a respectable kehilla built on a foundation of Ahavas Yisroel, and a shita that is well-founded in Torah even if it’s a minority opinion and even though they had chutzpah to gedolei yisroel who had a different opinion.
The tiny group that has now hijacked the name Neturei Karta and has given it such a bad reputation that the real NK are ashamed to use it any more, are only about 50 people worldwide. Most of them are mentally ill, and some are simply being paid, like Moshe Hirsh shr”y. There’s a shita that “far parnoossa meig men altz teen”; the most famous protagonist of that shita was Moshe Rabbenu’s grandson Yonoson, and they are going in his path.
So they have an excuse. These people do not. They take Alex Soros’s money, but they’re not doing it for that. “Der narr maint doos mit an emes!” Nor are they mentally ill, unless you call leftism a disease.
They are and should be treated as Kapos.