I don't know where to begin once again.. Things were really looking up at my synagogue and I addressed my previous issues with the Rabbi and he made me feel welcomed. Me, the Rabbi and a couple other frummish/shomer members spent the last week together eating, drinking and enjoying our company. It was a wonderful occasion and I was starting to feel happy and welcomed at my new synagogue which is not far from where I live.
I always was a bit uneasy at some of the liberalism at my Chabad, but I was willing to overlook all of this for the greater good of forming a Chavurah with my fellow Jews in a community that has no real Orthodox synagogue or community at all. The town the synagogue is located is also very liberal and in a college area. However, I was hoping the more conservative-minded Chabad and its Rabbi could provide a good community to myself and others in the area. Indeed, last night's service was going well throughout the whole night. We had a minyan and we sang and danced and had a very inspirational service. There was few women there and it was a whole large gathering of Jewish brothers.
However, something horrible happened yesterday evening during the Shabbat meal. There is this one member at the Chabad who I thought was a good guy at first. Even, I bumped into this guy at a health food store, seeing him wearing a kippa and a beard and asked him about synagogues and he was the guy who informed me about the Chabad Shabbat evening services and told me to come. Sadly, my relationship with this guy and even my entire lookout on the community I am attending would take a piercing, sharp 180 turn that night. That night we were giving special L'Chaim's and prayers for the return of the 3 children who were kidnapped by Hamas. It was a bit of an emotional evening and there were conversations started. Well, I brought up to everyone about how we needed to boycott the Olympia Food-Coop which is the first grocery store in the USA to officially make a full boycott of all Israeli "Jewish" products. As I was telling people about how the Olympia Food Co-op is funneling money to terrorist groups like Hamas and Al-Aqsa Martyrs (PLO militant wing) via crooked and deceptive Palestinian run NGOs, then this man (who's name I won't mention) spoke out against me.
This is where things became very heated, tense and extremely shocking. He yelled at me, "NO.. THE OLYMPIA FOOD CO-OP DOES NOT SUPPORT TERRORISM". I then proceeded to ask him about this and explain to him what I learned from my research and discussed with him about how they have boycotted all Jewish Israeli goods from their store. He then told me he is a member of the Olympia Food Co-op Board and that he knows that they do not support terrorism. At that point, I was shocked, with my jaw opened. I then, being shocked, asked him why he would be a member of a co-op that hates Israel, Jewish people and supports terrorism. Then he starts arguing with me and defending his position and the Co-op. At this moment, I could see this evil traitor's eyes growing very dark as I opened a pandora's box that he was quietly keeping secret. However, this is only the beginning of the treachery and anti-Jewish/anti-Israel fanaticism that was culminating underneath the peaceful hippy Jewish looking exterior of this liar and traitor.
Then, after he tells me he is a member of the Olympia Food Co-op, he proceeds to tell me he was friends with Rachel Corrie, met Rachel Corrie and her family and knows Rachel Corrie does not hate Jewish people. The topic of Rachel Corrie was brought up after I started discussing how she was involved with the Olympia Food Co-op in the boycotting of Israeli products, supporting, assisting and protecting Palestinian terrorists and trying to strong-arm Jews into ceding Israeli land with her political activism. He then proceeds to tell me that he is a member of the Rachel Corrie Foundation and that they are very Jew-friendly and that they do not support Palestinian terrorists. He said he is doing good work with them and he supports the BDS movement. I SAID, at this point, furious with anger and in a very heated tone, "YOU SUPPORT THE BDS MOVEMENT AND BOYCOTT THE ISRAELI NATION?" I then yelled at him that he wants to destroy Israel and he supports the very same terrorists , who kidnapped those three Jewish children. Me and him started yelling back and forth and some people ended up taking his side. Other people around me, said "Yonatan, please, don't believe everything you read on the internet.. I am sure you don't know everything about Rachel Corrie ". I think a lot of the people around me may have been young and naive and others have seen this traitor come and attend the synagogue for the last couple years and grew to like him, not knowing anything of his Anti-Israel political activism. This same guy has made multiple trips to Israel studying Hebrew for the very purpose of joining up with far-left, anti-Israel organizations, such as Rachel Corrie Foundation and BDS. If you go to the BDS's website you will never find a more Jew-hating/Anti-Semitic website, in addition to Anti-Israel. They make claims saying how JEwish made products are inferior and Jewish people are warmongers, how Einstein is a fraud, etc etc. The BDS website is pure Nazi propaganda..
I saw that me and this guy were just exchanging harsh words and then I said to him its best we don't speak anymore. And , he said the same. But, I could see that any little thing could set me off and wanting to slug this guy out cold and turn the entire Shabbat experience into a night of terror and fiasco. To avoid making anybody upset or causing anymore friction and animosity I stopped my meal. I stood up and announced to everyone I am not hungry, I am leaving and told them I cannot eat at the same table with a person like this. People were looking at me like I was being hard-headed and confused and many of them seem to not have a clue as to what we were arguing about.
Let me say that me and this guy both have an agenda. He comes off as the peace loving, warm, hippy Jewish guy, with his beard , kippa. His wife is a naturopath and liberal hippy girl. Everybody seems to like them. But, after looking in his eyes staring at him face to face, I could see this guy has a serious agenda and he is hellbent at promoting his cause, which is the destruction of Israel and helping his friends, the Muslims. He keeps it quiet, but I wouldn't even be surprised if this guy is a Muslim posing as a Jew. There is something very strange about him. I cannot understand why a Jewish guy would so much seek the destruction of his own people and his own homeland. This guy's mission is to go to synagogues and act friendly, peaceful and win the respect of young and/or naive Jews and try to "EDUCATE THEM" to his thought pattern. He is like an evangelist for the Palestinians and Anti-Israel movement and he is much more effective and dangerous than the fire-breathing , raging screaming maniacs with their kuffiyahs and PLO flags screaming on the streets. He is trying to destroy the Jewish people within his own community. This guy is a parasite and he has found his host.
What I don't understand is why my Rabbi, who appears to be very pro-Israel, nationalistic and right-wing would allow this traitor and tyrant to attend the synagogue and promote his toxic agenda. Why would he let this tyrant so boldly give honor to Rachel Corrie and other Neo-Nazi/Jew-hating like people who are bent on the destruction of our homeland. Also, he supports the enemies, the same people who kidnapped the three innocent Jewish children and who have murdered , wounded and tormented countless other Jewish people.
PLEASE.. I ask people in friendship and respect to help me.. As fellow nationalistic, Pro-Israel, Kahanist Jews, please help me and guide me.. What should I do? My Rabbi saw me storm out of the synagogue and I told him as I was leaving, it wasn't his fault and I would talk to him about it later, that I was having a problem with a member. I am not sure what to tell him. I'm afraid he may laugh at me and call me a trouble maker, since I am accusing of wrong-doings one of his longer term members of the synagogue. I am also going to advocate for the expulsion of this member, as I know making teshuva is not in his interests, but rather promoting his anti-Israel/anti-jewish, pro-Palestinian agenda.
What I like to ask is what is the point of davening/making tefillot for the sake of davening/making tefillot? Is there a point just to pray when after you are done praying your purpose is to bring the destruction of your own Jewish people and support the enemies (The Palestinians) who have sought to kidnap, murder, torture Jewish men, women and children? These very same people seek the destruction of the entire Jewish nation and to establish an Islamic empire in our Holy Land. What is the point of singing, dancing , praying and eating at my synagogue with a man like this?? I cannot ever go back to that synagogue until this traitor is removed. I won't be able to feel good in my heart, to enjoy my food or the fellowship and community with my fellow Jews looking at this scum-sucking/Jew-hating traitor's face. I do not want any physical confrontation.. But, I know being side by side with this traitor and fraud we will have great animosity for each other and I would have to restrain myself every time. No, I cannot live like that.. I cannot attend a synagogue that brings a traitor into its midst and considers him part of the family. I can tolerate a lot of things.. If somebody is a drug addict, alcoholic, fornicator, homosexual, cheater, thief, etc. Assuming they want to change ,of course. However, a Traitor??? I cannot accept a Traitor.
All I know is, if the Chabad will tolerate such fanatical Jew-haters/Anti-Israel/Pro-Palestinian people in its synagogues, it is doing a much greater disservice to the Jewish people than any good it could have been doing. It's one thing to help a person who wants to change their views and open dialogue, its another thing to give a person like this refuge and to give them a box to stand on to promote their views and manipulate other Jews who come to a religious Zionistic/Orthodox type of Jewish community for a safe haven and community. I know that I cannot be part of a community where people will support a guy like this. Everyone around me was looking at me like I was in the wrong for challenging this TRAITOR about BDS, RACHEL CORRIE and OLYMPIA FOOD CO-OP.
I am going to do what I can to voice my concerns out to my Rabbi and the Chabad movement in general about people like this who they allow as long term members , as well as allow them to promote their anti-Israel/pro-Palestinian views in the synagogue.
For those of you who don't know who is the BDS, Rachel Corrie or about the Israeli boycott at the Olympia Food Co-op, I have some good articles for you to read over, that discuss an overview of these issues:
BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) Movement's Main Home Page
http://www.bdsmovement.net/The Lies about Rachel Corrie, Corrie assisted Palestinian Terrorists to Harm IDF Soldiers and can be labelled as "Enemy Combatant"
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/15028#.U6Z3DfmwK0YOlympia Food Co-op Israeli Jewish Product Boycott (They will carry Arab Israeli products)
http://www.olympiabds.org/http://www.theolympian.com/2014/04/07/3074875/appeals-court-upholds-olympia.htmlPlease, before I go and call my Rabbi and discuss with him all that I discussed with people here, I would like people's input. I don't want my Rabbi to think I am some lunatic and that I am just attacking and abusing a fellow member. I need to do this intelligently , I think. I was also thinking about not contacting this Rabbi, but contacting another pro-Israel Rabbi that I was close with at a much larger synagogue who maybe can talk to the Rabbi for me and address the issue.