Video shows two ultra-Orthodox Jews tearing down Israeli flags from streetlight poles in Beit Shemesh, drawing protests from passersby.
Israeli media reports said two people were arrested over the incident.
“I was born Jewish. I have nothing to do with Israel.
Yet because I’m Jewish, Israel claims it is my country.
Israel claims a ‘national connection’ to Jews worldwide. That connection does not exist.”
- Orthodox Rabbi and Jewish scholar Yaakov Shapiro
A Dangerous Lie: Zionists Do Not Represent the Jewish People
To preserve their claim, Zionists attempt to delegitimize those truly devoted to Judaism.
But the truth is clear: Torah Jews are not a fringe, and we will not be silenced.
Source @voiceofrabbis@TorahJudaism
Zionists want you to believe that criticising Israel or being anti zionist is antisemitic.
Meanwhile... tens of thousands of Orthodox Jews gather in New York and reaffirm their opposition to Israel and how zionism is a violation of the Jewish faith.
BREAKING: Thousands of our Anti-Zionist brothers gathered in London at the Israeli embassy to protest Zionism and Israel’s actions!
Not one Jew here agrees with the ridiculous notion that opposition to Zionism is antisemitism.
Torah Jews supplied signs for our members to hold: “The State of Israel is the problem NOT THE SOLUTION.”
https://t.co/6EJ3QzbkwC
Massive Protest at Israeli Embassy in London:
Thousands of Orthodox Jews, Led by Rabbis, Condemn Forced Military Draft and Persecution of Religious Communities.
The world is unaware of Israel’s treatment of Orthodox Jews,” said Rabbi Green.
“Religious Jews should never be forced to fight in wars that violate their faith.”
Source @voiceofrabbis@TorahJudaism
Jonathan Greenblatt, a person who essentially treats Judaism like a toy to play with, claims that the anti-Zionism of devout, Torah-observant Jews is somehow ‘antisemitic.’
Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum zt"l: “We must have self sacrifice to let the nations of the world know that these wicked men (Zionists) are not the representatives of the Jewish people, and that observant Jews have no connection with them, it would be one of the biggest Mitzvos to do so!"
How true the Rebbe’s holy words ring today!
(Kinus Haklali, 1961, printed in Divrei Yoel Naso p. 128-9)
LONDON:
Today marks history when 1000s of JEWS came out to protest against the Zionist State and their DEPRESSION of RELIGION by forcing TORAH JEWS into the ZIONIST ARMY to convert them into ZIONIST JEWS! https://t.co/NmFTx53CMp
This is EVIL!
Nothing with Jews or Judaism at all!
#ZIONISM is NOT #Judaism, Zionism is PURE EVIL, and it's against all JEWISH values!
#ZionismIsNOTJudaism
HOLEE SHYT‼️How is this ok?
🚨 The President of the World Jewish Congress just sent a warning to every Potential AMERICA FIRST Candidate wishing to run for U.S. Congress
If you do not support Israel, if you platform or say anything we deem “antisemitic”, we will “TARGET THEM” and start a fund for their opponent.
Christians need to call this out. This is outrageous! I am so sick of the government of Israel interfering in on OUR politics. This is not ok and if you think this is ok, my God….
"Are Jews A "People" or a "Religion?" And Is The "Chosen People" A Supremacist Concept?"
Tackling the misconstrued definitions of Zionism and reestablishing the authentic Torah identity of what a Jew really means.
Spoiler alert: Being Jewish is NOT about Israel or Zionism.
Full article on website: https://t.co/bxfhR9Xr7e
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Anti-Semites have long claimed that Jews are a “race” or “supremacists,” often pointing to the Torah’s description of “Israel” as the “Chosen People.” This reflects a profound misunderstanding of what Jewish identity actually is. Judaism has never defined Jews by race, blood, or ethnicity. The Jews are a nation, but not in the modern sense of the word. Today, “nation” is used as a synonym for “country” or “sovereign state.” When the Torah used the word am (nation), it did not mean that. G-d tells the Jews while they were still encamped in the desert, without a land of their own, “Today you have become a nation to the L-rd your G-d” (Deuteronomy 27:9). It means a people bound together by a shared divine mission. Rabbi Saadiah Gaon captured this truth concisely when he wrote, “Our nation is only a nation through its Torah.” Without Torah, there is no Jewish nation.
Throughout history, Jews have lived in every corner of the world, speaking different languages, following different cultural customs, and belonging to every imaginable ethnic background. What held them together was not culture, cuisine, or geography, it was the Torah. Conversion itself proves that Judaism is not racial. Anyone, from any ancestry or background, can join the Jewish people by accepting the Torah and its commandments. Many of the most revered figures in Jewish history descended from converts. Zipporah, the wife of Moses; Rachav, who married Joshua; Ruth, the great-grandmother of King David; and Onkelos, the translator of the authoritative Aramaic Targum were all converts. Even great Talmudic sages such as Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Meir traced their lineage to converts.
This classical Torah definition of Jewish identity stood unchallenged until the rise of Zionism in the late nineteenth century. The founders of Zionism rejected the Torah’s framework and attempted to redefine Jewishness as a secular national identity, separate from religion. They wanted Jews to be “a normal nation,” like the European national movements of their time. To achieve this, they crafted a national culture reshaped Biblical Hebrew into a modern secular language and transformed the Holy Land into a secular state known as “Israel.” In this process, they replaced “the People of the Book” with a political nationality. They declared themselves “the nation of Israel,” even while openly abandoning the Torah that defines that nation. This ideological revolution created a contradiction: they wished to retain the title “Jew,” yet rejected the very source that grants that identity.
Confusion about Jewish identity deepened with modern ideas of race and ethnicity, with some pointing out that Jews share common DNA. It is true that most Jews come from two common ethnic groups with similar DNA, Ashkenazi and Mizrahi/Sephardi. That simply reflects the fact that there have been relatively few converts over the centuries compared to other religions. But this does not define what a Jew is. A convert who accepts Torah is as fully Jewish as someone born into the community. Jewishness is not determined by skin color, geographic origin, or genetic markers.
Some have attempted to categorize Judaism as a tribe, but even this fails. Tribal lineage in the Torah is patrilineal, (e.g. status as a Kohen or Levite) while Jewish identity itself is matrilineal: a Jew is someone born to a Jewish mother or someone who properly converts. The maternal line establishes Jewish status; the paternal line establishes tribal affiliation. Neither is about ethnicity in the modern sense.
A common question arises: if Jewish identity is defined by Torah, why is someone born to a Jewish mother still Jewish even if they are completely non-observant or even deny the Torah? The answer lies in the distinction between halachic status and spiritual standing. By halachic definition, a person born to a Jewish mother is a Jew, regardless of personal beliefs. This status is permanent. However, one’s spiritual standing within the Jewish people is determined by belief and observance. The holy Rambam, in his introduction to Perek Chelek, writes that a Jew who rejects the fundamental principles of Judaism is not considered part of the Jewish people in the spiritual sense, even though his halachic status remains intact. Such a person retains the obligations and liabilities of a Jew, his marriage and divorce within halachah are valid, and he is accountable for mitzvos and will face the liabilities of transgressing them. Yet he does not enjoy the religious privileges of communal trust, such as serving as a kosher witness or preparing food that observant Jews may eat. Should he return and embrace Torah once again, he does not require conversion, because his halachic identity was never erased.
In truth, Judaism’s vision of peoplehood is unique in human history: a nation defined not by race, bloodline, territory, or culture, but by a divine covenant open to all who accept it. To define Jews as a race is not only inaccurate; it distorts the very essence of Jewish identity. Judaism is the opposite of racism. Its foundational texts insist that any human being, from any background, can enter the covenant and stand shoulder to shoulder with the descendants of Avraham Avinu. The only ideology that imposes birth-based privilege while detaching Jewish identity from Torah is the ideology that tried to replace G-d’s covenant with nationalism, and that is Zionism.
London: #Torah#Jews have gone out to protest against the #ZIonists regime to draft Jews into their army, in a state that they DON'T believe in, and DON'T participate in.
It's a way they wanna us to convert into Zionist Jews!
WE WILL FIGHT THEM!
Zionism is NOT Judaism #TTJews
Judaism and Zionism Are Opposed
We stand firmly on the principle that Judaism and Zionism are diametrically opposed. Zionism is a political movement that has hijacked our sacred religion for its nationalistic agenda. https://t.co/NmFTx54aBX
#Jews#Zionism#TTJews#London
🔥Judaism’s truth and Zionism’s ideology cannot coexist.🔥
At the Water Front Square in Brooklyn, tens of thousands gathered to honor our Rebbe, Rav Yoel Teitelbaum blessed memory, and to reaffirm his fearless battle against Zionism.
We remain loyal to his path—Torah above all, and resistance to Zionism without compromise.
Source @voiceofrabbis@TorahJudaism
The good news is that thousands of NYC Jews are also against Israel existing as a ‘Jewish’ state.
Opposing ‘Israel’ doesn’t translate as ‘Jews can’t exist.’
Our brethren lived in the Holy Land for centuries before Zionism. It’s only this GDless ideology that we all oppose.
Yes, Kristallnacht was how it started.
But let’s not forget why it happened.
Zionist leaders at the time refused rescue efforts unless it meant immigration to Palestine, using Jewish suffering to build a political state.
87 years later, that same ideology lives on: sacrificing Jews worldwide for “Israel,” instead of learning from the tragedy of Kristallnacht.
Source @voiceofrabbis@TorahJudaism