Neturei Karta Wants Nazi Uniforms As Purim Costumes

According to the flyers, "historically accurate" costumes available include German SS uniforms, Luftwaffe pilot uniforms, Hitler Jungen (the Nazi youth movement) uniforms, and Einsatzgruppe ('death squads') uniforms, as well as Inquisition costumes. Wearing "Zionist" IDF, ZAKA, police costumes deemed "worse" than Nazis.

Neturei Karta: IDF Purim costumes worse than Nazi uniforms
Extreme haredi group offers to import Nazi, Inquisition costumes while Safed rabbi forbids men to wear women's clothes
Kobi Nahshoni • Ynet

Some are not content with the wide range of Purim costumes on the market, and are now proposing to import various costumes that are likely to cause a storm. In notices and flyers distributed recently in Neturei Karta centers, a group of activists from this extreme haredi movement assert that Nazi costumes and accessories are preferable to any costume which includes Zionist elements.

"After last year's success, in response to the extensive demand and after great effort, we have managed to organize the import of special costumes for Purim," they wrote in what they called a joyful notice for the holiday. Customers are promised that "these costumes are very rare and historically accurate."

According to the flyers, items available include German SS uniforms, Luftwaffe pilot uniforms, Hitler Jungen (the Nazi youth movement) uniforms, and Einsatzgruppe ('death squads') uniforms, as well as Inquisition costumes.

How is it possible that Jews wear the clothes of Jew-haters? These anti-Zionist activists do not shy away from the difficult question, offering convoluted excuses along the lines of "the sinner (Zionists) is worse than the killer (Nazis)."

They note that police uniforms have been accepted in Israeli society, and one can see haredi families in the clothes of the Zionist police, which is even worse.

A., a Neturei Karta member, told Ynet the Nazi costumes probably don't actually exist, and that they would almost certainly not be imported into Israel.

The advertisements, he asserted, were mainly meant to shock the public and emphasize how terrible it would be to dress up as those defined as the worst kind of "Israel-haters" (such as the IDF, ZAKA, police, and others).

Meanwhile, Safed's leading rabbi, Shmuel Eliyahu, has issued a halachic ruling that men are forbidden to dress as women, since the injunction "neither shall a man put on a woman's garment' (Deuteronomy 22:5) is valid also during the Purim holiday.

In response to a question sent as a text message, the rabbi noted that some authorities exclude children under the age of 13 from this injunction or permit the wearing of one women's garment, but said that those who follow the ruling strictly will be blessed.

The question and answer will be published in the synagogue bulletin, "Olam Katan" ("small world").

[Hat Tip: Michelle.]

Comments

[HaNavon]

woah! woah! i once asked my rebbe "at what point did the early christians become a separate in the eyes of other jews?" and he said "when they stopped identifying as jews and started identifying as greeks or romans", now im not sure if it's historically accurate or not, but thats not whats important, whats important is that this is a sign that these people just arent the same religion as we are, whether youre orthodox, hassidic, conservative, reform or unaffiliated.
ich zug dir tzu, if i see someone dressed that way on purim, i'll try to explain to the police that i thought the neo nazis were trying to kill me, while im under arrest for their murder.
no joke.

[harold]

I sure hope that they wear these "costumes" and get the sh-t knocked out of them.

[who knows?]

Death cult of neturey carta endorses Nazi death cult.

These people should be repugnant to every single Jew

[Yerachmiel Lopin]

These nuts have the seichel of Prince Harry. At least he apologized. But being Neturei Karta means "never having to say your sorry."

I would not kick the stuffing out of them, but they will not get any sympathy when someone else does.

[Maskil]

Okay, even the article admits (although is not sure) that the ad was to make a point but there won't actually be any such costumes.

(Also, the quote of R' Eliyahu is inaccurate. He holds like those who recommend stringency re: dressing as a woman on Purim, but many hold like the Rama in Shulchan Aruch who writes that it is permitted.)

[Big Jew]

If I see a Jew dressed as a Nazi I will ask him if he wants to speak to my bubby for a minute. She can explain why its unacceptable for a Jew to ever don that uniform.

[steve]

Very befitting.

[in the know]

i am going to dress uo as a neturei kartanik and hold up a benner which reads as follows . I AM A NAZI TODAY!

[Michelle]

B"H

In the Know,

Hillarious!! Please post a picture when you do!! Happy Purim.

[ted]

These chaps did attend a Holocaust
Revisionist Conference in Iran back
in 2006 with the likes of David Duke(not
The Duke John Wayne). What's so suprising
about these horrible antaics of theirs.

[WoolSilkCotton]

Dressing like a woman is the #1 Purim costume for men in Crown Heights.

[Chayim]

Neturei karta are not bad people. I know some of them and I agree with certain tactics. But you people sit back and dont give a hoot if cars drive on shabbos in Israel,if homosexuals pollute the holiness of Israel,that 1 million jewish children are in public schools and are being raised as hebrew speaking gentiles. Thats ok. But Neturei karta which fights for Jewish causes,they r the problem. You people need your heads examined. CHAREIDI POWER NUMBER ONE.

[jomadar]

hey chayim youre the one who needs his head examined you sound like a complete nut case those 1 million hebrew speaking goyim have more self worth then you or youre fanatics they work for a living and dont live of someone elses hard work the least theese netureis can do is keep their stupid oppinions to themselfs and you chayim are a tottal fool for buying into their moronic antics

[who knows?]

Chayim, you've stated "Neturei karta are not bad people. ".

If you have any logical sense, please follow the this simple sequence: 1)Naturei Karta support Hamas => 2) Hamas wants Jews to be thrown into the sea => 3) Naturei Karta wants Jews to be thrown into the sea.

Naturei Karta are the enemies of Jewish people. They are supporters and enablers of the Jew killer Hamas.

How in the world you can come up with the statement that they are "not a bad people"?

[who knows?]

Indeed, NK may be good family men, but so were many SS men. NKs also may mean well it is just idelogy that makes them crazy, but so are many anti-Semites.

[jay]

Notice how all of Chayim's post lead to a mention of homosexuality. Whether it's a discussion of fish, NK, Nazi costumes,he always comes back to that topic.

Chayim.. dude! It's okay! There's no need to be in denial! It's not a problem if you rip off that caftan, dye that shtreimel pink and shout: "This is me, world! This is who I am! I'm queer, I'm here!"

[Bilaam's Ass]

maybe these are the Bnei Haman Shelomdim B'Bnei Brak, Pedophile capital of Israel....

[Mr. Apikorus]

As your resident Nazi, at least according to the blogmeister and one (or two) of the posters, I like to disguise myself as a Hasid on Purim, complete with black hat, tzitzis, the whole nine yards.

Therefore, I will not be wearing my Allgemeine-SS Sturmbannfuhrer's dress uniform, size 42R, plus size 10 1/2 jackboots, and would be happy to loan it out for the day to a member of NK for an appropriate price, of course. They act like Nazis the other 364 days of the year, so on Purim they can dress like one.

It had better be returned Tuesday, spotless and pressed, the boots spit shined. Ist das clar?

[Chayim]

You guys are all brainwashed by secular media. If you see movie stars and liberal media condone gay marriage so you too become supporters. Next year when the same liberal media will tell all you monkeys to support beastiality,of course all you reform,conservative and modern orthodox will support beastiality. Its called political correctness. I know more whats going on in the political Jewish arena and can outdebate any one on Jewish issues. I knew all the activists from meir kahane to Rabbi Amrom Blau. What nk did in one weekend to disarm Farrakahn,the bnai brith geazers couldnt do in a life time. As far as who is destroying Israel,its the secular government of Israel. They are at fault. Neturei karta today is not the neturei karta of 25 years ago. Today they have Mossad agents in there that go into arab countries using religious anti zionism as a front. You idiots think you know it all. How do I know because I was friends as a teen and used to workout in karate with the current head of nk. I despise the mossad because I recall what these bastards did to yossela shumacher.For 2 and a half years they traveled the world looking into every chareidi kindergarten to find this little boy. what the devil do u movie buffs and baseball heads know about politics. CHAREIDI POWER NUMBER ONE

[Mr. Apikorus]

You probably know, Chayim, that a large segment of the gay community is obsessed with Nazi regalia and paraphenalia.

I'll let you rent my SS uniform for Purim. Half price. However, putz, you don't have to return the swastika armband. In fact, you can shove it up your Arsch.

[Pessie Gelb]

Stop accusing every charaidi anti-homosexual of being homosexual. Most of them have no homosexual desires and those who have such desires including those who give in to those desires will never come out of the closet and announce to the world "gee whis im gay". The shame of being homosexual in charaidi and modern orthodox communities is so great that orthodox jewish homosexuals molest and rape innocent children because they are scared of being discovered having homosexual affairs with consenting adults. Maybe the problem is that the gay pride advocates are so unashamed of their sins that they insist that whoever they have homosexual affairs with come out of the closet and announce to the world that they are gay instead of letting their homosexual partners who are ashamed of their sins remain ashamed of their sins. down with gay pride. sinners should be ashamed of their sins instead of proud of their sins.