'Zionist Regime Manipulates Judaism,' Says Tehran Jewish Leader

[The Sandman]

The Iranian news agency IRNA quoted the head of the Tehran Jewish community as saying on Friday that there is no link between Zionism and the Jewish religion and that freedom-loving Jews support the Palestinian people.

Israel's "Zionist regime is just a political party and there is no link between the Jewish religion and Zionism," Homayoun Sameyah Najafabadi, Executive Director of the Tehran Jewish Committee, is reported to have told the news agency.

Large crowds participated in rallies throughout Iran on Friday to observe Quds (or Jerusalem) Day. Iranian Jews living in Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz and Kermanshah attended the rallies to "condemn the Zionist regime atrocities committed against Palestinians," Najafabadi said.

IRNA quoted him as saying that "the Zionist regime is manipulating Judaism for materialistic purposes," and that all the world's freedom-lovers, including the Jews, are supportive of the Palestinian people.

It said that Najafabadi "called on the world media to be committed to supporting the Palestinians and bringing to global attention the criminal actions by the Zionists against the Palestinians."
http://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/iran/1.728444

 

[The Sandman]

@Falcon29 @2800 @Khafee @Desert Fox and @salarsikander do the honors pls

 

[salarsikander]

@Solomon2 So what is your take on this?
I'm sure for you will now say this statement was made under duress.
BTW does the illegal Zionist state even recognizes Irani Jews as Jews ?

 

[Khafee]

@Solomon2 So what is your take on this?
I'm sure for you will now say this statement was made under duress.
BTW does the illegal Zionist state even recognizes Irani Jews as Jews ?

I wouldn't be surprised if they are very well connected.

 

[Falcon29]

@Solomon2 So what is your take on this?
I'm sure for you will now say this statement was made under duress.
BTW does the illegal Zionist state even recognizes Irani Jews as Jews ?

Only if they come out and serve as propaganda material against Iranian gov't.

 

[Tshering22]

Neturei Karta apparently.

 

[salarsikander]

Only if they come out and serve as propaganda material against Iranian gov't.

Otheriwse not ? How tragic !

 

[Rizwan Alam]

Totally agree. Zionism has nothing to do with faith. Infact they are more or less athiest.

 

[LordTyrannus]

Zionism is a very dangerous doctrine and disbelief into the natural order of Allah.

Judaism is a refference of somebody who is led by Allah. Yahuda means someone who is led by Allah.

Torah is the book of jews while zionists and cabbalists only believe in talmud.

Talmud was the book of secret knowledge which Allah gave to prophet sulayman a.s.

Sulayman is referred to in the holy Quran by Allah: "suleyman was not an unbeliever, but the seyatin (devils) were unbelievers." surah 27 an-naml

Allah explicitly warns humans about black magic or secret knowledge, that it will lead them astray. And they will have no share in the hereafter (paradise jannah)

Zionists are devils

 

[Solomon2]

Solomon2...I'm sure for you will now say this statement was made under duress.

...the Shah left Iran on January 16, 1979, and two weeks later Khomeini entered the country, being welcomed by millions of people; the Jews of Teheran once again were "advised" to join the demonstration to welcome Khomeini's arrival (February 13, 1979). Soon afterwards, an Islamic Republic was formed with a new Islamic constitution. Though it contained many discriminatory provisions against non-Muslims, it still granted second-class citizenship rights to Jews and other religious minorities, as protected non-Muslim monotheists – with the exception of the Bahais who were persecuted and over 200 of them were massacred all over Iran. The treatment of the Jews was ambivalent.

In the first two to three years of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), about one-third of Iran's 80,000 Jews left for Israel, Europe, and the U.S. IRI broke its relations with Israel. The regime adapted a pro-Palestinian policy declaring that Israel and Zionism must be destroyed. IRI also encouraged the foundation of Hizbollah in Lebanon by supporting it with money, arms, and military advisers. Any tie with Israel was considered war against Islam. Though upon his return from Paris Khomeini met with the heads of the Jewish community, declaring that Jews were to be protected by Islamic law, some 200 Jews were arrested and jailed. During his rule, about 20 Jews were executed by the Revolutionary Courts, among them the former head of the Jewish Organization, the industrialist millionaire Habib Elghanaian (May 9, 1979). Many were deprived of their administrative, university, and high business positions. Jewish property on a large scale, amounting to more than one billion dollars, was confiscated by the regime...events, such the arrest of 13 Jews in the last decade of the 20th century, allegedly spying for Israel, show the true face of these relations. As long as the hatred against Israel and Zionism and the support of terrorist organizations such as Hizbollah continue to fuel the foreign policy of Iran, the situation of Jews in IRI will remain precarious.

BTW does the illegal Zionist state -

Aw, it's as if you didn't put in the word "illegal" everybody would think Israel was a legal state! How about that?

...even recognizes Irani Jews as Jews ?

Sure, why not?

 

[salarsikander]

...the Shah left Iran on January 16, 1979, and two weeks later Khomeini entered the country, being welcomed by millions of people; the Jews of Teheran once again were "advised" to join the demonstration to welcome Khomeini's arrival (February 13, 1979). Soon afterwards, an Islamic Republic was formed with a new Islamic constitution. Though it contained many discriminatory provisions against non-Muslims, it still granted second-class citizenship rights to Jews and other religious minorities, as protected non-Muslim monotheists – with the exception of the Bahais who were persecuted and over 200 of them were massacred all over Iran. The treatment of the Jews was ambivalent.

In the first two to three years of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), about one-third of Iran's 80,000 Jews left for Israel, Europe, and the U.S. IRI broke its relations with Israel. The regime adapted a pro-Palestinian policy declaring that Israel and Zionism must be destroyed. IRI also encouraged the foundation of Hizbollah in Lebanon by supporting it with money, arms, and military advisers. Any tie with Israel was considered war against Islam. Though upon his return from Paris Khomeini met with the heads of the Jewish community, declaring that Jews were to be protected by Islamic law, some 200 Jews were arrested and jailed. During his rule, about 20 Jews were executed by the Revolutionary Courts, among them the former head of the Jewish Organization, the industrialist millionaire Habib Elghanaian (May 9, 1979). Many were deprived of their administrative, university, and high business positions. Jewish property on a large scale, amounting to more than one billion dollars, was confiscated by the regime...events, such the arrest of 13 Jews in the last decade of the 20th century, allegedly spying for Israel, show the true face of these relations. As long as the hatred against Israel and Zionism and the support of terrorist organizations such as Hizbollah continue to fuel the foreign policy of Iran, the situation of Jews in IRI will remain precarious.

Aw, it's as if you didn't put in the word "illegal" everybody would think Israel was a legal state! How about that?

Sure, why not?

And yet still Jews are living in Iran? Aren't they ? And expressing their displeasure at Zionist state

 

[Archdemon]

@Solomon2 So what is your take on this?
I'm sure for you will now say this statement was made under duress.
BTW does the illegal Zionist state even recognizes Irani Jews as Jews ?

Illegal? Under which law?

 

[pakdefender]

To simplify , there were two laws in Judaism

The Written Law ( Torat / Torah )
The Oral Law ( which was the guidance that Moses/Musa(AS) gave for matters that were not explicitly detailed in the written law)

Now over time Rabbinical Judaism , formalised the Oral Law in the form of the Talmund and that is where man's own corruption came in

The control of Rabbis over Judaism is no different than any clergy members taking hold political and national narrative of a people , it's no different in case of Israel and Zionism in general.

 

[Solomon2]

The control of Rabbis over Judaism is no different than any clergy members taking hold political and national narrative of a people , it's no different in case of Israel and Zionism in general.

How did you arrive at such sweeping statements, sir?

 

[salarsikander]

Illegal? Under which law?

LOl delusional zionists. Read the International law on illegally capturing the land

How did you arrive at such sweeping statements, sir?

It is quite and apparent the Jewish people as opposed to zionist are not very fond of the illegal state and have openly declared it as illegal. Hence which is why we see so many NGO funded by jews themselves opposing the zionist state