New Wave Of Anti-Haredi-Soldiers Posters Blanket Haredi Areas of Jerusalem

A new wave of haredi posters attacking haredi IDF soldiers and calling them missionaries and kidnappers drew swift condemnation from the IDF yesterday but no arrests.

New Wave Of Anti-Haredi-Soldiers Posters Blanket Haredi Areas of Jerusalem
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com

A new wave of haredi posters attacking haredi IDF soldiers and calling them missionaries and kidnappers was posted in haredi neighborhoods of Jerusalem Sunday. The posters drew swift condemnation from the IDF yesterday but no arrests, the Jerusalem Post reported.

“The IDF utterly denounces and condemns any violent behavior, physical or verbal, toward those who serve. The IDF provides special support to those who serve in it from the haredi community, due to sensitivity to their position. The military has set up a 24-hour assistance hotline for haredi soldiers,” the IDF reportedly said in an official statement released yesterday.

Under the headline “hardakim [light-headed haredi cockroaches, the haredi slur for haredi IDF soldiers] are missionaries with a double identity,” the new posters reportedly show a haredi soldier changing from his IDF uniform into black pants and a white shirt.

“The hardakim viruses are spreading… [and trying to] entice the senses [of haredi children with talk of] holding a rifle and feeling like a false hero.” The poster continues by saying that haredi soldiers pose a "dangerous threat to the lives" of haredim.

The poster reportedly also has a depiction of a haredi soldier kidnapping crying haredi children and placing them in an army jeep.

Similar posters, booklets and even a comic book for haredi children were distributed by haredim beginning last spring  and led to a wave of physical attacks on haredi soldiers, primarily by haredi teens. Haredi soldiers were beaten and stoned and, in at least one case, an elite police unit was needed to rescue the haredi haredi soldier from the mob seeking to lynch him. By July, the IDF had reportedly received over 80 complaints from haredi soldiers of physical violence and verbal abuse from haredim.

“No investigation [has been] opened as of [Sunday] evening. However, this issue is being looked into,” Jerusalem police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told the Post.

Member of Knesset from the Yesh Atid Party Rabbi Dov Lipman claims he has seen evidence that the funding for these posters and comic books comes from the US.

Although the paper does not identify that source of funding, the two Satmar hasidic factions have openly raised money to support similar projects.

Comments

[David]

These parasites are totally disconnected from reality.

[seymour]

simply tell them if you do not send you children to the IDF you are all alone. we will over no protection from terrorist. none nothing. If a bomb goes off Daven

[jancsibacsi]

David----These parasites are totally disconnected from reality.
Nothing new about that,their minds are enslaved by this fantasy about themselfs that they must adhere to their rebbes every word if not they think they will cease to exist,in shrot they are in reality in a hypnotic trance and they cant seem to snap out of it.

[JekylJ]

Jancsi
Yoelish was the same crook as the rest of them just slightly more intelligent.

[anuran]

Do to them what you'd do to a community of Arab terrorists. Cut off their welfare. Bulldoze their houses. Shoot them when they riot. Throw them in jail

[rebitzman - $101 to read my posts]

They call themselves true Torah Jews? A true Torah Jew knows that conscription in the army to defend the people is absolutely mandatory, and there is no hallachic justification for conscientious objection for any reason what so ever. The only exception is in Deuteronomy 20:5-8 where it essentially lays out the idea that if someone is so big a coward that they are likely to spread their fear to others, they can be excuses - and if THAT were the justification they are hiding behind, I would applaud their honesty. But instead they give a non-Torah - non-Hallachic reason to hide their cowardice.

Torah Jews my @ss. Hypocritical Jews is more like it.