We all remember the Nutty Karta Jews who made kissy-face with Ahmadinejad at the Holocause Denial conference in Tehran, right?
Well, so did this group of Israeli Jews while visiting Poland. They expressed their dislike rather forcefully.
A fervently Orthodox Austrian Jew who embraced Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reportedly was assaulted by a group of Israelis in Poland. Ma’ariv reported Monday that Moshe Aryeh Friedman, who attended the Holocaust denial conference hosted by Ahmadinejad in Tehran in December, was spotted while visiting the former Auschwitz and Birkenau camps over the weekend. A group of fervently Orthodox Jews from Israel also touring the sites set upon Friedman, who was born and raised in Monsey, N.Y.
“We gave him a good beating, the kind we have not given in a long time,” a member of the Israeli group, Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, told Ma’ariv. “We took off his coat and hat, so he would not look like a Jew.” According to the newspaper, Meshi-Zahav, who is one of the founders of the Israeli volunteer emergency service ZAKA, was later honored with a special Torah reading in the synagogue.
Okay, let’s count the symbolism:
1. Friedman, who went to Iran to help publicize a conference that was called specifically to deny the Holocaust, was beaten on a site where many of the Jews killed in the Holocaust were murdered.
2. Friedman, a Brooklyn Jew who does not believe the state of Israel should exist, was beat up by Israeli Jews.
3. The Israeli Jews are from ZAKA, the volunteer organization that recovers remains after terrorist attacks, among other things. In effect, he was beat down by a bunch of extreme EMTs. (No offense meant to ZAKA, and while you’re at it, donate if you have a few bucks to spare.)
4. The guy who led the beat-down got an honor for it from his fellow Jews.
5. The guy who led the beat-down’s name is Yehuda, which is Hebrew for Jew.
Now, I normally do not cover events like this. There are enough Jew-bashers out there without going into the internecine squabbles. But this one is different on so many levels, and I’m afraid I feel absolutely no sympathy for Friedman. The man would have been a kapo in the death camps. He invited a Holocaust denier to his son’s Bar Mitzvah, and made nice with Hamas, the organization that has murdered or wounded thousands of Jews.
This is one event I’d have paid money to see. If only they’d taken pictures.
Yes, I know, that’s extremely uncivilized of me. But this is a man who enables the enemies of the Jews. What the religious Jews did by removing his hat and coat were to, in effect, cast him out of our group. They were saying he is not a Jew. And I agree.
When you work hand-in-hand with the enemies of the Jew, you are no Jew. You are the enemy within. The Neturei Karta are bad enough. This guy gives even them a bad name.
Thank you Israelis who treated this piece of dreck exactly the way he deserved.
Yehuda Meshi Zahav has an interesting history. He wasn’t always such a believer in the Jewish state. However because of his work with ZAKA he won and accepted the Israel prize.
I hope Chumsky and Finkelstein are reading the news of what happened in Poland.
Hopefully, someone else has the courage to mete out justice to these kapos as well.
It is even more ironic. Many members of ZAKA are what many consider “ultra-orthodox” – earlocks, black suits and hats, etc. That is why Meshi-Zahav said that they took off Friedman’s hat and coat so that he would not look Jewish. Essentially, Friedman has been forcibly rejected by his own.
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