Why would rabbis be anti Zionists? There were actually some rabbis at the recently conference in Tehran, which

Question

was held to dispute the Holocaust. David Duke was there too! Ugh!

Answer 1

those rabbis were not there because they doubt the holocaust.

Answer 2

Most Jews of the same level of religious observance as those Rabbis are anti-Zionist. Zionism is a secularist movement which wanted to replace Judaism with Jewish nationalism (Zionism).

The Midrash Rabbah and Talmud, two important religious books for Jews, say that if Jews try to go back to the HOlyland in great numbers or by force, G-d will bring all sorts of disasters on them. That's why religious Jews (outside of the made up Daati Leumi sect) are not Zionists.

The Rabbis in Iran actually gave a speach praising the Iranian people for various good things they do, and asking the people in attendance not to allow their justifiable anger at Zionism make them inadvertantly mock the victims of the holocaust.

Those same rabbis managed to broker the release of 18 Jews in prison in Iran for allegedly spying for Israel back in the '90s; and got the red tags removed from Syrian Jews' passports and travel papers. They negotiated the right of Jews with no attachment to ZIonism to live in the future Palestinian state; and asked and recieved a document from Yasser Arrafat asserting that Judaism is a good religion, and the Palestinian people have a problem with Zionism not Judaism.

Basically that group, Neturei Karta, is hated and maligned by the State of Israel and its friends because they have a talent at going to places Zionists say a Jew can't safely go, meeting with people Zionists say Jews can't safely meet, and leaving with smiles and handshakes all around after accomplishing some off the wall, cray success the Zionists couldn't with 300 nuclear weapons and a million threats.

They embarrass Zionism, so the propaganda machine tries to represent them as a lunatic fringe.

Answer 3

Zionist is a political movement. Some Jews attach theological understrings, but it is mostly a political movement. It's about setting up a home land for the Jewish people. The problem is, Orthodox Jewish theology has built up the idea of the Messiah as the one who will lead the people to their home land, the same way Moses lead them to the promised land out of Egypt. We, as Christians, of course know this is true, but in an entirely different way than they expect. So if you believe that only the Messiah will be God's insturment to lead you to a place, and then a political movement raises up that leads you there, then you have to reconsile that. It can't be reconsiled, so a lot of Orthodox Jews oppose the Zionist movement.

Answer 4

Zionism is a belief that the Jewish people should reclaim the holy land and all Jews should settle there. Not all Jews want to go to the Middle East to re-settle the holy land. The rabbis at the conference do not hold this belief.

Answer 5

a lot of Jews are against Zionism. because they know that God expelled the Jews from the land for rebelling against him.


http://www.nkusa.org/

http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/

Answer 6

they were there because they know that according to the scripture they were not meant to steal the land, it is mainly secular Jews who agree with the state of Israel, not religious Jews