When Neturei Karta marches in anti-Israel demonstrations it is not marching for peace with Palestinians, but an end to the Jewish state. The Hamas charter calls for the destruction of Israel and the murder of Jews everywhere. Iran is known to be developing nuclear weapons and its leaders have repeatedly declared that Israel should "be wiped from the map."
How can Neturei Karta stand shoulder to shoulder with Israel's enemies who threaten the lives of Israel's six million Jews? Hamas would not hesitate to kill them along with the rest of the Israel's Jews, if given the chance.
In the past Neturei Karta supported the infamous 2001 UN Conference Against Racism, which equated Zionism with racism. They also attended the Peace in Palestine Conference in Malaysia in March 2005 and supported the resolution that called for a worldwide boycott of Israel. In December 2006, eight Neturei Karta rabbis travelled to Iran to meet with then president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, embracing his ideas of Holocaust denial and his stance that Israel has no right to exist.
Neturei Karta number only a few thousand members and only a handful takes an active part in their battle against Israel's existence. They are at most a fringe group of religious crackpots. These anti-Israel activists are willing to endorse anyone who opposes Zionism, including terrorist groups such as Hamas, and anti-war, anti-Semitic and Holocaust-denying leaders and their organizations. In turn these groups can parade Neturei Karta's approval as a way of justifying their anti-Semitism.
Harold Pomerantz, Dundas
