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A demonstration took place on Wednesday afternoon, July 20, 2011, in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn New York, a neighborhood with a population of over 35,000 ultra Orthodox Jews. The theme of the demonstration was to boycott the Israeli food company Osem, which is known for its ongoing partnership with the Israeli “Jewish National Fund [JNF]”.

Neturei Karta Burns Osem Snacks in Williamsburg

A demonstration took place on Wednesday afternoon, July 20, 2011, in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn New York, a neighborhood with a population of over 35,000 ultra Orthodox Jews. The theme of the demonstration was to boycott the Israeli food company Osem, which is known for its ongoing partnership with the Israeli “Jewish National Fund [JNF]”.

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  • please dont support them

    posting this shows your support to them please remove thank you

  • zionist

    they burn the flag???
    whats next? Suicide bombings?
    they are worse then the scum terrorists they represent

  • Pathetic?

    crazy how they can justify ball tshchis… They desperately need to discontinue government subsidies so they will have to take employment thereby leaving them with less time on their hands so they can be more productive with their free time.

  • noah

    how much money was donated to JNF from the 4 BOXES of osem products they bought in order to burn?

  • Rochel

    Why would u even post such an embarrassment!!!! They are deranged and unbalanced…

  • motti

    Why do we even bother 2 put these morons on your site these r not well ppl. They need serious help. They r against the state of Israel however the rebbei holds if u give it back u r endangering all the yisdwn that live rhere

  • A Proud Jew

    Look at minute 5:33. To see “so called jews” dancing while they destroy the israeli flag. This is not judiasm! Not caring for their fellow Jew and taking the side of peole who want to kill other jews and them. its disgusting. I thought I was watching arabic tv. I am sickened and I cry for the jews who follow this propganda, these people need a refuah sheleima. we need Moshiach Now!

  • outraged

    why should you burn food when there are so many people, including yidden, going to sleep hungry?! Just don’t buy it!
    This is a massive chillul Hashem.

  • bamba

    Besides being absolute lunatics notice how they have just contributed to JNF by purchasing cases of BAMBA!

  • Shviger

    Such bored souls!
    If there’s nothing to complain about, they create something!
    I recognize one of those guys from the Kingston fiasco!!

  • PAMELA REIZ

    I AM GLAD I AM A SHALIACH OF THE LUBAVITCHER REBBE, WE LOOK FOR THE GOOD IN EVERYTHING, AHAVAS YISROEL, LET US HAVE RALLIIES TO BRING MOSHIACH NOT TO BURN GOOD SNACKS, WE NEED ACHDUS TO BRING THE ULTIMATE REDEMPTION

  • ha ha

    so out of 350000 jews leving there only 20-30 show up at this crazy demostration. dont seem like they have to much suport. a bounch of wakos

  • boycott?

    They had to buy the osem products to burn them! What kind of boycott is that?
    plus, they gave osem free advertising

  • ewwwwwwwwww

    wooohoo tis ppl r let c weird disgusting imature odd ……-
    and this is 1 of the reason y moshiach is not comming its disgusting what they r doin whteva

  • go-d-s right hand man

    vus iz geshein tzu bob the apple,
    looks likes a good promo for tisha b’av,
    mer vayst osem macht nit broit,
    so throw some shekels and other companies products into the red fire also,
    de keheala darf zein uifen de zelba daf,
    the shabbos of communism isn’t ever finished
    G-8!~*!&~G-8

  • Baroch

    Hey – Neturei Karta speaker, whoever you are…Take your payos and shove it up you know where. Do not use your convenient cell phones, because they are a product of Israel, the Holy Land. Don’t use cars, don’t use air conditioning, don’t drink spring water, etc etc… Join the AMISH in Pennsylvania and be part of them. You are not a Jewish entity, you might as well be part of the Palestinians, yemach shmo!!! Get lose and don’t settle in Williamsburg, which really belongs to the early American native settlers. Get the hell out, KAPISH??

  • yanky

    i would love to have been them and thrown a bucket of cold water on him.

  • $$$osem$$$

    At first I thought these guys are crazy. Then I thought is this a camp play? Then I thought these idiots bought 10 cases of this product Osem must be laughing all the way to the bank. Then I realized yea they are crazy.

  • Reality Check

    #1 Clearly they are throwing bags of Liebers Pretzels into the fire. (They can’t support Osem by purchasing their products.)

    #2 Can’t we send in the Israeli Bikini Team ibn blue and white to hold a counter protest against whereever they guys show up? We need to fight lunacy with lunacy,

  • mr america

    i know this might be harsh but i cant wait till they all burn in hell

  • israel in my blood

    thanks for being the first group to restart the hate after the terrible tragedy.thanks for once again proving that nk is a hitler loving group. and btw im gonna buy osem products l’kavod shabbos thanx to tou nk!

  • not all in Willy are pro Neturei Karta

    PIGS. how can they do this – one Jew hurting another – so soon after we lost Leiby?

  • SAVTA

    DO WE REALLY HAVE TO WATCH THESE STUPIDS IDIOTS MORONS…..
    THIS IS JUST A REACTION AGAINST CHABAD FOR SAYING THAT WE ARE ZIONIST..

  • marc

    LOL, the kid kept missing his throws and they keep on giving him more chances…

  • outraged

    I agree with point No. 1. Please dont give them any publicity. They are loving the support they think they are getting. How absolutely ridiculous and embarressing that thewy seriously think they represent ‘religious jews’….g-d forbid….

  • declasse intellectual

    Just what ones needs to see in the three weeks. To use the famous song. Where have all the flowers gone long time passing? Where have they gone, gone to Sinchus Chineam everyone–When will they ever learn?? When will they ever learn? Whejn will they ever learn. The Yidden answer–nevermore more!!!!!!!!!

  • lame

    these people have no sense of reality,,,, truly living in their own world.how sad that some people may see this and mistaken them as the representation for us Jews. us chassidim of the lubavitcher rebbe has different standards b”H!

  • May They Do Teshuva

    A bunch of meshigginas. Who listens to them? Ahmedinijad, Arafat’s hoodlums like Abbas and the Hamas thugs. If they really are Jews, may Hashem have rachmones on them and may they do Teshuva for all the damage they are causing…

  • Boo To Them

    If they want to scream out, why don’t they scream about bringing Moshiach!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Andrea Schonberger

    They have a right to protest in an orderly manner but I don’t approve of bringing children to any protest rally–violence could break out and children would get caught up in it so please be a responsible parent and leave children at home. But what’s with the food burning? Somalia is in the grip of a terrible famine and they’re burning food? That’s illogical.

  • Incensed

    How dare these pigs burn the Israeli flag! And the Issurim about wasting food! These jokes are an embarrassment to the worldwide Jewish Community. Shame on them!

  • go-ds right hand man

    clearly critics are cheaper than a dime a dozen,,,
    so after askin’ a local rabbi what’s worse baal tashchis or loshon harah they replied they both ain’t good, both the right and the left of are guilty of of baal tashchis while the one tongue is guilty of loshpn harah or is that no longer true because most people type with two hands KMA G-8~(*!&G-8

  • BURN THE BAMBA!!!!

    You gotta burn the Bamba. its the cause of all problems. They ahould also burn all food with an eidah Chareidit symbol becuase eida chareidit supervises bamba… Chicken soup mandelen should also be bannened, while youre at it, ban chicken soup.

    Also any child who eats bamba, bissli or chicken soup should not be allowed in their schools.

  • leah

    neturey karta and zionism are exactly the same. they both wish to give the land back to the arabs. They both with to sell the land to arabs. The State of Israel is actually doing
    exactly what the Neturei Karta wish. For this reason i can not understand what is all the commotion on behalf of Neturei
    Karta.The land of Israel is full of arabs.Every single Supermaket is garded by Arabs and if you say something against arabs, Has ve Shalon they stick you into prison.
    I really do not understand what is the matter with Neturei Karta.

  • Getting out of hand

    See how they mention “in the greatest concentration of orthodox jewish communities”. They always use the call of “real Jews” etc. to further their hatred. It’s time for all frum Jewish communities to speak out against them. To let the world know that these 20-30 crack heads stand on their own without support from the the rest of the jewish world as they keep on claiming.

  • Rochol.

    Neturei Karta say that the State of Israel is causing a spiritual Holocaust. They are also causing a spiritual Holocaust by not been Mekarev to non religious jews. In kind of Chabad thousands of non religious jews are now keeping Tora and Mizvot.Not just that but they have become Chassidim
    to such degree that you can not tell the difference between them and FFB.

  • tzippy

    they produced a new taste for osem, barbecue pretzels, barbecue bamba and barbecue bissli! yam ans i want taste it more than ever!

  • Pathetic

    Baal Tashchis?Since when does Neturei Karta take the TORAH into consideration? They are a bunch of loonies on a mission ,and like all loonies they have apparently lost all forms of normalcy.What a joke! If they had ANY brains they’d realize
    a)They just supported Osem by buying their products,hence supporting Israel (haha)
    b)By bnurning the flag they just put themselves in the same category as the Arabs and other crazies…in case anyone thought to take them seriously…not ever gonna happen aftert that

  • cool

    i think just for this i am going to start buying osem snacks even more than before

  • HELOO...CRAZY

    this is a huge chillule Hashem!!!!
    and i love how they say they keep the Torah but then they do Bal Tashchis by burning the food!
    they are cursing themself and trying to cause suffering on their own people!!!
    WHATS WRONG WITH THEM??

  • cohen london

    It is time you all do ggoders know who you support when you buy their Hechsherim Satmar hiedes as thought they are not neturei karta It will be revealed soon that we need to kasher our homes if we use satmar hechsherim

  • cooked

    Hahaaa that was funny, they all pretend a “boooo”

    and they end it with a “oyyyyyyy”

    haahaa

  • y.y.

    Let’s understand 1 difference bet Satmar, Toldos Aron (which are all Hungarian chassidim together with 1z but these r the biggest anti Zionist among them) and Neturei Marta. 1) Reb Yoel ztl was against the state of Israel however he was never 4 giving it back 2 the Arabs being that all they want 2 do is kill all the hidden so he said make it an international country this way u won’t be oiver “ lo yalu bchoma” (don’t take over the land out of force“ which is part of the 3 oaths as explains in the gemara ksubos) but NK is going against the same that is the basis of all their beliefs and shitas which they go totally against. & as u could see most of the satmar williberg was not standing there that is because satmar & NK r not they same. Satmar has their protest u could see on YouTube but they never say give it back 2 the Arabs. So that is the difference here we r not even discussing howvthe rebbe doesn’t even hold like Reb Yoel we r talking in his shita itself how they go against it & take it 2 another extreme & contradict what it says in his sefer ” V’Yoel Moshe” which is based on Reshonim & achronim on the gemara in kesubos & other places in shas which discusses the inyan of Lo yalu bchoma.

  • y.y.

    Let’s understand 1 difference bet Satmar, Toldos Aron (which are all Hungarian chassidim together with 1z but these r the biggest anti Zionist among them) and Neturei Marta. 1) Reb Yoel ztl was against the state of Israel however he was never 4 giving it back 2 the Arabs being that all they want 2 do is kill all the hidden so he said make it an international country this way u won’t be oiver “ lo yalu bchoma” (don’t take over the land out of force“ which is part of the 3 oaths as explains in the gemara ksubos) but NK is going against the same that is the basis of all their beliefs and shitas which they go totally against. & as u could see most of the satmar williberg was not standing there that is because satmar & NK r not they same. Satmar has their protest u could see on YouTube but they never say give it back 2 the Arabs. So that is the difference here we r not even discussing howvthe rebbe doesn’t even hold like Reb Yoel we r talking in his shita itself how they go against it & take it 2 another extreme & contradict what it says in his sefer ” V’Yoel Moshe” which is based on Reshonim & achronim on the gemara in kesubos & other places in shas which discusses the inyan of Lo yalu bchoma.

  • Lubavitcher-Zionist - Is that Milhouse?

    Coming to this story after reading the previous one posted on Crown Heights Info, “Israeli Chabad Spokesman: Chabad is Zionist” — it seems that the guy with shrill voice holding the microphone may be the infamous commentator “Milhouse” — anyway, they seem to share the same ideas and sentiments. Uch and Veigh! Did they get hit by a truck or were they just born that way? Nebach!

  • Ruth

    Saw some of these idiots in front of the congressional office building during AIPAC’s pro-Israel lobbying day while we were going INSIDE to talk with our members of congress.

    Being a woman I decided that the best way to show them my complete contempt without getting arrested for assault was to stand in front of them, look them straight in the eyes and sing “Anachnu Ma’aminim” as loud as I possibly could in my very off-key voice. They stood there tsittering in horror and there wasn’t a thing they could do about it.

    Yes, maybe it was petty and childish, but it WAS fun!! And I’ve just realized I’m out of Bisli, so I need to stop off and pick some up on the way home.

  • HEAR, LEARN, AND ACT

    it gives me heartache to look at the children. look at their fathers! it gives such a bad impression on the kids. now they will grow up to do the same things.

    it hurts me to see what they are doing,
    but even moreso to watch the children.
    why should they include them? i am crying now. we are producing a generation of yidden hating yidden.

    HOWEVER
    we must remember that these are our fellow Jews. We must show pity that they have the wrong ideas and try to gently teach them WITH LOVE, the way a yid should behave.
    may all these good jews, who happen to be doing some not good actions due to this aching golus (exile), merit to discover the true meaning of yiddishkeit: achdus (unity). May we be zoche to open our eyes and have Hashem show favor and bring Moshiach immediately.

    If you agree to what I am saying, please donate a bit of your time to say a kapital or two of Tehillim for all the Jews in turmoil and trouble. Hopefully, Moshiach will come as a result of our changed actions.

    Write us the kapital you are saying if you are a part of this project. I hope we generate many people to do good for the sake of good only, to bring Moshiach.

    I am saying Kapital Chof.

  • fievel g

    i hope these people burn in gehenom along with the murder of leiby and tzippi livni and any other person trying to hurt the jewish state or the state of Israel. Even though we are Lubavitch I am going to make a quote from Rav Kook z’l people will come to see clearly that the power of Israel lies in its eternal holiness, in the light of G-d and His Torah, in the yearning for spiritual light which is the ultimate valor, triumphing over all of the worlds and all of their powers” (Orot, Pg 84).

  • odd balls

    my question is:
    why aren’t their rebbeim and Rebbe’s doing something about excommunicating these odd balls.
    personally, i think their jewishness is questionable. i just dont see how they could be jewish. odder discoveries have been made.
    do you know their are jews living as palestinians?? yes, and there is documentation to prove it – israeli government is researching this interesting phenomenon.
    Didn’t The Rebbe once say: “…it will be interesting when Moshiach comes to see who is jewish and who is not….”

  • ONLY IN WILLIAMSBURG

    you see some people think they are intelligent other think they are smart while some people think they are genious these people are flippin crazy

  • Mitzi

    Hold on there. I don’t care if even 50 showed up. I don’t want them coming to my shul and asking for tzedaka. Let them go to hell, because eventually that’s where they will go, together with Arafat and his cohorts. A plague on Nitureu Karta and anyone who associates with them. Can you believe such evil coming out of a socalled Jewish group?

  • Tzippy M.

    May Hashem take away their sins once he’s taken away their mental illnesses!!!!!! This is a word that I never use, but they are idiots!!!!!!