Sound like useful idiots to me. Obama voters. Am I missing something?
Orthodox Jews typically vote conservative. They are certainly not “useful idiots” for BHO. They are protesting the drafty in Israel.
You’re spot on.
These are the Satmar, one group of Hasidic Jews - as distinguished from the Lubavitchers, the Bobovers, the Skverers and other Hasidic groups.
They are arguably the largest group, and their official teaching is that the State of Israel should not exist.
While this does not stop them from taking enormous amounts of public assistance from the government, they object to serving in the armed forces of that same government.
There is a more extreme faction that is not part of the Satmar but has members who have been affiliated with it called the Neturei Karta - this group actively collaborates with Hamas to destroy the State of Israel.
It is a longstanding theological dispute, at the heart of which is the belief that only the Moshiach (Messiah) can restore Jewish government in Israel, that secular government is an abomination.
Among Hasidim, mileage varies on this theory.
Are they just protesting for the men in the mother land? I’m sure they will not be deported?
Stupid Jews.