Thanks for this additional informations, Marv!
Am 08.10.2026 um 20:54 schrieb Marv Gandall via groups.io:
I agree with Michael about the significance of the Haredi rabbi's
public statement for the Palestine cause internationally, as a hopeful
illustration of a deepening rift within Israeli Jewish society. His
remarks deserve wide circulation. But the cautious observations of the
two Arab academics interviewed by Ajazeera should also be taken into
account. They suggested that the rabbi's comments were mainly
defensive in nature, aimed at curbing the unfortunate growing
influence within the Haredi community of the racist and militaristic
religious Zionists led by the likes of Ben Gvir and Smotrich.
"Ibrahim Khatib, a conflict studies scholar at the Doha Institute for
Graduate Studies, said Lando’s remarks drew a line between Zionism and
Judaism “from inside the Jewish community itself”, at a time when the
official Israeli establishment “tries to bind them
together”...However, Khatib cautioned that the ultra-Orthodox polity
in Israel “is right-wing, its leaders hold right-wing positions, and
some of them have made clearly offensive statements about Arabs and
Palestinians”.
[...]
"Mohammad Abu Rumman, an academic adviser at the Politics and Society
Institute in Amman, said the significance of Lando’s remarks lay in
the question that prompted them. The example of a young religious man
who combines Torah study with military service, he said, "raises a
question inside the ultra-Orthodox world itself: Why don’t we do the
same?”
“When Lando describes their teaching as a distorted Torah, he is
trying to close the door on emulating them,” Abu Rumman told Al
Jazeera. “His words are aimed at his own audience as much as at his
opponents.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/7/ultra-orthodox-rabbis-anti-zionist-remarks-stir-israel-election-row
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