When I first heard about the tunnels I got no context with it and thought maybe they were building an underground access to another building (and as a guy who works in the Middle East, nothing beats underground access to other buildings during Summer, let me tell ya), but then I went on twitter and I’m reading some of the weirdest blood libel stuff.
I’m not gonna shed any tears for this particular group though, as there’s an anti-zionist twitter group that explained this group’s ties to Israel; apparently they’re both anti-zionist but pro-Israel, in that they detest that Israel is secular but still support them because they want a Jewish state (religiously Jewish that is; they don’t merely want a state of Jewish people). They’ve held meetings with multiple Israeli prime ministers including Benjamin Netanyahu (https://twitter.com/TorahJudaism/status/1744728504829428196).
From my understanding, at the core it seems to be as simple as the tunnels were built to facilitate the illegal expansion of the synagogues space, with a whole bunch of strange internal hasidic sectarianism involved on top of that to make it sound more complex and much more bizarre than it probably actually is, those involved being hasidic of course makes it inherently wacky for much of the online world.
yeah, i think this ties in and a lot of people initially misinterpreted it, because on the day it was revealed a lot of posts were about how they used the tunnels to evade covid rules and enter the synagogue secretly to congregate
no, they’re much more isolationist than evangelicals. their religious conservatism is largely directed at their own families. similar problems with racism but a very different phenomenon otherwise.
When I first heard about the tunnels I got no context with it and thought maybe they were building an underground access to another building (and as a guy who works in the Middle East, nothing beats underground access to other buildings during Summer, let me tell ya), but then I went on twitter and I’m reading some of the weirdest blood libel stuff.
I’m not gonna shed any tears for this particular group though, as there’s an anti-zionist twitter group that explained this group’s ties to Israel; apparently they’re both anti-zionist but pro-Israel, in that they detest that Israel is secular but still support them because they want a Jewish state (religiously Jewish that is; they don’t merely want a state of Jewish people). They’ve held meetings with multiple Israeli prime ministers including Benjamin Netanyahu (https://twitter.com/TorahJudaism/status/1744728504829428196).
From my understanding, at the core it seems to be as simple as the tunnels were built to facilitate the illegal expansion of the synagogues space, with a whole bunch of strange internal hasidic sectarianism involved on top of that to make it sound more complex and much more bizarre than it probably actually is, those involved being hasidic of course makes it inherently wacky for much of the online world.
The AP articles says some folks believe a legendary leader who served for like 4 decades and died 3 is still alive and wanted the expansion??
no , asfar as I understand , they digged towards the woman quaters because teenagers are teenagers , then the vocel police arrived
From the article I read the quarters haven’t been used for years now because of the pandemic.
yeah, i think this ties in and a lot of people initially misinterpreted it, because on the day it was revealed a lot of posts were about how they used the tunnels to evade covid rules and enter the synagogue secretly to congregate
Telegram is going off on a bunch of lurid CSA details that I’m pretty sure are 95% false
So they are even more fashy religious zealots similar to deep south evangelists ?
no, they’re much more isolationist than evangelicals. their religious conservatism is largely directed at their own families. similar problems with racism but a very different phenomenon otherwise.
more like the Amish or Mennonites but not rural; they isolate themselves far more than most religious conservatives