On the eve of Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, which was also
commemorated by Jewish communities worldwide, the Satmar Rebbe of Kiryas
Joel, Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, called the looming military draft of
haredi yeshiva students "a decree worse than the annihilation of the
Jewish people [in the Holocaust].…[those who support drafting haredi
yeshiva students are] "worse than those who murdered us [in the
Holocaust].” The real reason Israeli leaders want to draft our yeshiva
students, Teitelbaum claimed, is that they want to “cause us to leave
religion."
Rabbi Aharon Teitelbaum
Israeli Pols Who Want To Draft Yeshiva Students Worse Than The Nazis Who Murdered Us, Satmar Rebbe Says
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
On the eve of Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, which was also commemorated by Jewish communities worldwide, the Satmar Rebbe of Kiryas Joel, Rabbi Aharon Teitelbaum, called the looming military draft of haredi yeshiva students "a decree worse than the annihilation of the Jewish people [in the Holocaust].…[those who support drafting haredi yeshiva students are] "worse than those who murdered us [in the Holocaust],” Ynet reported. The real reason Israeli leaders want to draft our yeshiva students, Teitelbaum claimed, is that they want to “cause us to leave religion."
Teitelbaum was speaking to thousands of followers in Kiryas Joel, just north of New York city, during an annual event marking the yartzeit (anniversary of the death) of his father, the previous Satmar Rebbe Moshe Teitelbaum.
"A black cloud is hanging these days over our brothers, the people of Israel living in the Holy Land. A malicious government has convened…and is seeking to uproot the Torah. Jews here don't understand the magnitude of this disaster, which applies to every single individual [just like the Holocaust]…We, in the Diaspora, must be prepared for the moment when we will have to rise up with all our might against this terrible decree so that it is not executed, God forbid,” Teitelbaum reportedly said.
Teitelbaum’s brother, the Williamsburg Satmar Rebbe Zalman Teitelbaum said that "the draft decree aims to make us forget all the other troubles Zionism has inflicted on us. We must fight it uncompromisingly so that such ideas won't even cross their minds. He also referred to the State of Israel and all Zionists as “this generation's Amalek…the Zionists came from the seed of Amalek. There has never been such a sect that caused so much damage to the Jewish people,” Rabbi Zalman Teitelbaum said when visiting Israel in January for the express purpose of disrupting Israel’s national election.
[Hat Tip: Seymour, etc.]