israelidoc> It will never happen b/c the idea of a chareidi following orders / instruction from anyone other than a Torah authority is an anathema.
yes and no. There is a video on front page with R Landau saying that bochurim should not be at the demonstration and that situation is not simple and leadership is “doing the best they can”. So, who are all these people demonstrating while ignoring/or being ignorant of the instructions?
My theory is that this is a history-driven sociological trap: leadership established separate communities (Rambam’s deserts in the words of Chazon Ish), had to use separatist ideology to protect them (and this worked well both in Israel and US), and now these ideologies took over the crowds beyond the temporary measures they were, and leadership is unable to change them, in part because the protection is based on “we are right, and they are always evil”, but also because they can’t go against the load crowds. Emes is the biggest loss of this complex process.