Sommerville, MA - Naturei Karta Rabbis Urge Yes Vote on Human Rights Questions

Sommerville, MA - Some Naturei Karta rabbis came to Somerville to announce their campaign on behalf of a public policy which will be on local ballots in November. They aim to persuade Somerville citizens to affirm solidarity with Palestinians’ right to return to their homes and homeland.

The rabbis travelled from New York City to be in Somerville for the announcement, which they hoped would be “the beginning of an awakening.”
Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss said, "People really want to do good. Unfortunately, there is tremendous propaganda" that distorts the truth and prevents Americans from understanding what is good and what is evil.
“I pray to God that we should be able to convey this truth to you,” he said.
One of the greatest distortions, he said, was that Jews were for centuries being massacred in the Muslim world, that Islam is a “terrible philosophy” that makes its followers intolerant of other religions.

Rabbi Weiss also said that his parents died in Auschwitz, “so I am not a man who does not understand Auschwitz.” “They died a physical death,” he said of his parents and other holocaust victims, but we must throw off Zionism, or “they will die twice, die a spiritual death,” as well.