Haredim Threaten International Boycott Of Israel, Nationwide Violent Riots

Haredim Threaten International Boycott Of Israel, Nationwide Violent Riots
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com

A leading figure in the non-hasidic haredi rebel faction lead by Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach threatened the government with widespread riots and violence and worldwide civil disobedience – including an organized intenational anti-Israel economic boycott – if the government does not stop drafting haredi yeshiva students.

Rabbi Tuvia Shulzinger told Arutz Sheva that this weeks riots in Mea Shearim, which Shulzinger helped organize, were “just a promo.”

“I’m in touch with the leaders of haredi Jewry in the Diaspora, in the United States and Europe, and all the Torah sages are in an uproar. There have been urgent meetings. There’s going to be a worldwide campaign like nothing Israel has ever seen.

“We know rich Jews around the world who support the state of Israel, who buy Israel bonds, who have investments here. They’ll withdraw from everything. It will be a domino effect.

“If [the government] hits us where it hurts, we’ll do the same [to it],” Shulzinger threatened.

“The state of Israel is openly working today to take yeshiva students and forcibly stop their Torah studies. It won’t happen.

“What Ben-Gurion understood sixty years ago [when he exempted haredi yeshiva students from military service], Netanyahu does not understand. But he will understand,” Shulzinger ominously threatened.

Israel’s High Court of Justice ruled in February 2012 that blanket draft exemptions for haredi yeshiva students was unconstitutional.

The Knesset has been attempting to pass a new draft law ever since that would draft haredi yeshiva students, but Likud Party politicians, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyau and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, have effectively scuttled them all in what many believe is a prolonged attempt to  appease the only natural political allies Likud has – haredi political parties.