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Re: Going Underground .. or Leaving the UK (none / 0)

I presume no one was held accountable for the murder of Yaakov Yisrael Dahan. "He was a man who devoted all his energies and the best years of his life to saving the remnant of loyal Jews, and to promote peace with the veteran Arab residents of the Holy Land."

My diaries on Naturei Karta ...

○ Stop the Occupation and Neturei Karta Orthodox Jews
○ News on Settlement Building West Bank

A group of Jews from Neturei Karta demonstrated in The Hague at the Peace Palace to send a message about the decision of the Separation Wall crossing the Green Line on Palestinian Land. In a period the International Court of Justice made a decision where the "barrier" was declared illegal, State of Israel lost.

○ Ruling International Court of Justice in The Hague

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'Sapere aude'

by Oui (Oui) on Fri Feb 1st, 2019 at 10:48:50 AM EST
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Re: Going Underground .. or Leaving the UK (none / 1)

Since nobody has pointed out what is wrong with that biography, let me explain. The hint was that I responded to a post about Haredim not wanting to teach about LGBT. The Neturei Karta website has one of the most detailed and accurate biographies on the internet, but with one major and hilarious gap. They say

While training for the teaching profession, he began to attract attention in literary circles. Among the admirers of his poetry was a (non-Jewish) physician, Johanna van Marseveen, whom he subsequently married.

No mention of the fact that a lot of his poetry (and his novels) dealt with homosexuality. This got him into trouble, as the Dutch were not as tolerant as they are these days, but at least they didn't shoot him.

He continued to write poetry along these lines throughout his Zionist and anti-Zionist phases. Here is a sample, from Kwatrijnen

Twijfel
Wat wacht ik in dit avonduur,
De Stad beslopen door de slaap,
Gezeten bij de Tempelmuur;
God of de Marokkaanse Knaap?

"Moroccan" is presumably a reference to the fact that the Moroccan quarter (1193-1967) was adjacent to the Western Wall. There is a monument to him somewhere in Amsterdam, with the following poem by him