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Students at several UK universities have launched tent encampments demanding their universities divest from firms that supply arms to Israel and end any potential complicity in the regime’s genocidal war on Gaza.
Neturei Karta on Khazars and Jewish Identity
Neturei Karta on Khazars and Jewish Identity
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Antisemites who pose as anti-Zionists often exploit the Neturei Karta in order to demonise the State of Israel or to use the sect as a foil to legitimise antisemitic tropes. An example of this are Islamic fundamentalists, who in one breath claim that these Jewish anti-Zionists represent the “real” Jews, and in the next allege that European Jews are “khazars” or that secular Jews like David Ben Gurion are not real Jews (or some other similarly themed myth).
Statements such as these are presented in ways which could be construed by the casual observer to mean that they have been sanctioned by the Neturei Karta. All of which gives rise to a number of puzzling questions, the answers to which could help clarify what the Neturei Karta actually believe and what is falsely projected onto them. With this in mind, I emailed some questions to Rabbi Elhanan Beck from the British bra