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The ultimate self-hating Jews?

Most guests at Iran's highly controversial Holocaust conference were what one would expect: infamous Holocaust deniers, "revisionist" academics and former KKK members. But surprisingly enough, the attendees also included a group of Orthodox Jews. Members of the Neturei Karta sect believe that the state of Israel goes against their religion, because human force was used in its creation. And that's forbidden by the Talmud.
Addressing the conference, Rabbi Aharon Cohen justified the Holocaust as a divine will, and said that,
... the underlying cause of strife and bloodshed in the Middle East, namely the state known as Israel, [should] be totally and peacefully dissolved... [It is] a terrible affront to the memory of those who perished to belittle the guilt of the crime in any way... The Zionists, with their secular pompous approach behave in complete opposition to this philosophy and dare to say 'Never Again'.
Neturei Karta is considered an extreme fringe movement by other Orthodox Jews, and is only a few thousand strong.













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