Cozying to Iran, Chasidic Group Draws Ridicule
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When the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, last week hosted a conference meant to cast doubt on whether the Holocaust took place, it was no surprise to see Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke and prominent Holocaust-denier Ernst Zundel among the conferees. But what was a group of New York Jews in black hats, long black coats, and beards doing meeting with the Iranian president who has called the Holocaust “a myth” and stated publicly his desire to “wipe Israel off the map”?
As photos of these piously dressed men standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Mr. Ahmadinejad were beamed around the world, Jewish groups — even the most fervently anti-Zionist among them — were sent scrambling to distance themselves from the tiny Jewish sect, known as “Neturei Karta, which in Hebrew means “Guardians of the Wall.”
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