https://nitter.net/TorahJudaism/status/1712085221267439978
There were Jews in Jerusalem before the Zionist movement existed.
I guess they were Palestinian/Arab Jews and not Israeli. /s Not real Jews in the eyes of the zionist settlers coming from northern europe.
They also treated Jewish people from North Africa like shit.
I am beginning to wonder if maybe some nazis snuck over to israel after ww2 and pretended to be jewish. like they pulled an argentina, but in the levant (not to deny that european jews are capable of being racist on their own)
america has white anti-Americans
sometimes people are just born there, or don’t have a plan B. Think that one Taylor Swift account that went to jail for refusing to join the IDF.
My bigger question is how you get those people concentrated in one neighborhood, I’d expect them to be pretty equally spread around
Spitballing, maybe the community formed around the anti-Zionist synagogue? Could be a sort of self-selecting process
That would make sense. And of course once it gets that reputation it becomes self reinforcing
Think of Greenwich village in New York in the 70s or Exarchia in Athens in the 2010s. Radical neighborhoods are a thing for whatever reason.
I’ll be honest I can’t imagine being able to pick a neighborhood based on anything other than rent and proximity to work
Greenwich village was cheap and in a dense neighborhood, so it also fit those criteria. It wasn't like rich radicals moving to the burbs together or something
Man imagining a world where Greenwich Village is affordable is difficult lmao
Outsiders cluster together for mutual protection and support. Same way you get LGBT neighborhoods in conservative cities
TBH I feel like it's a bad idea to put all the good people in one place
Think of it from Israel's POV: they're putting all the bad people in one place so they can do shit like this. Makes perfect sense. It's how they do it in America and they train American cops don't they?
It’s an old religious Jewish neighbourhood from the time of the Ottoman Empire. The people who live there have always been very religious. And they’ve been there since way before Israel was even a glimmer in the eyes of European Zionists.
And if you take the religion seriously, Israel should only exist again once the Messiah returned…
This is a weird one. So usually Orthodox Jews would describe themselves as Torah observant or "religious", meaning they follow Torah law/its 613 commandments and the teachings of Talmud pretty much to the letter.
The people in this video probably would not call themselves "Torah Jews", to me this looks like a Haredi (sub sect of Orthodox Jews in Israel) neighborhood.
Israelis dont really like the Haredi, they refuse to serve in the IDF and are mostly opposed to Zionism for ideological reasons that I dont have time to type up right now. Basically orthdox jews that are against zionism believe the Messiah is supposed to show up and establish Israel and the establishment of the state as it exists today is a violation on religious grounds.
anyway, I looked up "Torah Judaism" and this guy seems like a crank. He's an american Jew who travels around doing mass conversions and evangelizes Judaism which is, to put it mildly, highly unusual and frowned upon.
Tldr: "Torah Judaism" the way this guy means it doesn't really seem to be a thing, However, he is not wrong about Zionists in Israel frequently attacking the Haredi Jews there.
To my knowledge they are by far the majority in the Haredi community
It's a bit more complicated. A number of the Haredi vote, and they are a significant part of Netanyahu's power base.
I made a comment the other day with a short explanation and some links explaining current Haredi politics:
https://hexbear.net/comment/4079482
