This isn’t typically how I write my articles, but this one’s a bit different because I wasn’t looking for a story, it just found me. I was walking on Elgin Street earlier today and noticed a protest in front of the Ottawa Courthouse. I wanted to know more.
The protest was held by approximately a dozen Canadian Orthodox Jews. They are promoting Anti-Zionism, saying that Zionism itself is Judaism’s worst nightmare. They are protesting the acts of Zionists and their misrepresentations of Jews.
According to Oxford’s online dictionary, zionism is “a movement for (originally) the re-establishment and (now) the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel. It was established as a political organization in 1897 under Theodor Herzl, and was later led by Chaim Weizmann.”
There have been brutal acts of violence emerging from Israeli Zionists against Palestinians and Jews. Zionist archeologists have gone as far as excavating graves in towns within their Holy Land (1). Israeli police and military have also gone too far when dealing with protests (2).
The protestors were modestly dressed in black suits with long curled sideburns, in accordance to the Torah’s commandments. Some were holding Anti-Zionist flags, some were holding signs that expressed messages such as “Judaism rejects the state of Israel‘, and some were praying directly from the Torah.
Amrom Rosenburg explained the issues in detail and informed interested pedestrians where to get more information.
(1) http://israelversusjudaism.org/oppression/20100309/index.cfm
(2) http://israelversusjudaism.org/oppression/20100707/index.cfm
(3) http://israelversusjudaism.org
(4) http://nkusa.org/
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