Reply To: How do we know that anti-Zionist posters are Jewish?

HaKatan,

1. Gedolim can say sharp things about each other (see Chavat Yair 152 regarding the reasons). We may not. Would you say about Rambam what the Raavad wrote?

2. You simply are ignorant of history. The Zionists did not provoke the Nazis. In fact, the Nazis saw the Zionists as a tool to make Germany a country without Jews.

3. The Jews had been secularizing long before the Zionist movement started, It began with Moses Mendelssohn and continued with the Maskilim, and the promise of high positions in exchange for conversion, or, at least, throwing off of mitzvot (this was the excuse of Reform for dropping Shabbat and kashrut – they prevented Jews from full membership in society). Unfortunately, there were also many Jews who lost their faith because of the Holocaust. As Rav Kook explains, many also were repelled by the passivity of Eastern European Jews, They rebelled against a misunderstanding of Torah.