The JTA is reporting that Neturai Karta leader Moshe Aryeh Friedman got the crap kicked out of him by a group of Israelis while visiting, of all places, Auschwitz. Mr. Friedman, who resides in Vienna now but was born and raised in NY, was ironically touring concentration camps after he proudly attended Holocaust denial conference in Tehran in December. What a complete schmuck. Would not surprise me if most Jewish people around the world are kinda glad to hear it – You remember him, the guy who was playing tonsil hockey in front of the world with Adolf Ahmadinejad.
Reports the JTA: “We gave him a good beating, the kind we have not given in a long time,” a member of the Israeli group Yehuda Meshi-Zahav told Ma'ariv. “We took off his coat and hat, so he would not look like a Jew.”
Now I don't want to condone violence – God knows we don't need any Jew vs. Jew inner fighting within our midst – we'll leave that sort of barbaric nonsense to the Palestinians. But in this rare occasion, I'm pretty sure I would have joined in on the smackdown and thrown a drop kick to this NK dude's face.
But maybe with slightly different tactics.
See, this idiot's skull bashing reminds me a lot of that ole Rambam who requires one to beat the heck out of a guy who won't give his wife a proper divorce document until his complies. Halachically, this is considered as if this coerced man gave it out of his own volition. Why? Because deep down inside a Jewish soul, one knows the difference between wrong and right. A prescribed beatdown, in this drastic situation, is the most effective way to unearth that deeply buried moral imperative from this guy's numbskull.
Which is why I think these Israelis should have left his Jewish gear on, not taken them off. A beating like this one is meant to bring out that inner good, not disrobe you of it. If they really wanted to teach him a lesson, they should have made sure to leave on his black Borsolino and bekesha while throwing an elbow to his jugular. Maybe even wipe his blood with his own talis. Heck, if he's gonna dress the part, then he deserves to be beaten until he starts to act like it.
I hope this ask kicking knocks some serious sense into the Neturai Karta's band of misguided morons. Or at least starts to give them a sense of how most Jewish people on earth feel about them. If not give, them my number. I'm pretty sure I can find a city of people here in NYC who are ready to go round 2.