Brooklyn, NY, June 7, 2005.

Traditional Jews agree with CRIF Chairman, Roger Cukierman, that the petition submitted by the WJC (World Jewish Organization) calling on French President, Jacques Chirac to fight anti-Semitism unfairly criticizes the French government and misrepresents the extent of anti-Semitic violence in France. CRIF (Conseil Representatif des institutions Juives de France) is an umbrella organization in the French Jewish community.

“This is a typical Zionist tactic.” stated Rabbi Stern, spokesman for True Torah Jews. “It is a continuation of the Zionist ideology to highlight and exaggerate anti-Semitism to promote immigration to the Zionist state as a ‘refuge’. This ideology was espoused by the Zionist leader, Rabbi Stephen Wise, who, in 1938, in his capacity as leader of the American Jewish Congress, wrote a letter in which he opposed any change in U.S. immigration laws which would enable Jews to find refuge.”

True Torah Jews believes that the existence of the Zionist stated called “Israel” is forbidden by the teachings of the Torah and laws of traditional Judaism. Zionism, by advocating a political and military end to the Jewish exile, denies the very essence of our Diaspora existence. We are in exile by Divine Decree and may emerge from exile solely via Divine Redemption. All human efforts to alter a metaphysical reality are doomed to end in failure and bloodshed. History has clearly borne out this teaching.

Zionism has not only denied our fundamental belief in Heavenly Redemption it has also created a pseudo-Judaism which views the essence of our identity to be a secular nationalism. Accordingly, Zionism and the Israeli state have consistently endeavored, via persuasion and coercion, to replace a Divine and Torah centered understanding of our people hood with an armed materialism.