Neturei Karta: A Jewish Sect of Holocaust Deniers?

That's how the New York Daily News puts it:

Jews rally vs. Jews

Hundreds protest against sect of Holocaust deniers

By ABBY LUBY
SPECIAL TO THE NEWS

Several hundred Jewish demonstrators taunted members of a small Hasidic sect yesterday for attending a recent Holocaust denial conference in Iran.

Does it bother you that the Daily News describes Neturei Karta as a "sect of Holocaust deniers"?

Whatever else you may say about, and against, Neturei Karta--to describe them as Holocaust deniers goes a bit over the top.

After all, according to the BBC:

A handful of Orthodox Jews have attended Iran's controversial conference questioning the Nazi genocide of the Jews - not because they deny the Holocaust but because they object to using it as justification for the existence of Israel.

It is ridiculous to claim that the Neturei Karta are Holocaust deniers--and yet they actually do straddle that line.

According to an article in another edition of the Daily News:

While Ahmadinejad has also called the Holocaust a "myth," Weiss has stopped short of agreeing with him.

"We don't want to deny the killing of Jews in World War II, but Zionists have given much higher figures for how many people were killed," Weiss said yesterday. "They have used the Holocaust as a device to justify their oppression." [emphasis added]

Neturei Karta has clearly crossed a line--a line of sanity and of credibility.
Their attraction to Ahmamdinejad was only natural.

Jonathan Rosemblum writes:

The Satmar leadership in Brooklyn put it succinctly: "[Those who went to Iran] trampled on the memory of their ancestors and people. They embraced the disciples and followers of their murderers."

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