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Satmar Hasidim rally at UN over Israel's `cruelty` toward ultra-Orthodox
By Haaretz Service
Tags: Israel News, United Nations 

Members of the anti-Zionist Satmar Hassidic ultra-Orthodox community rallied outside the United Nations building in New York on Tuesday to protest against Israel's 'cruelty' toward ultra-Orthodox Jews.

Satmar Rabbi Nahum Samson Meyer, who spoke at the demonstration, said it was being held outside the UN because the global body "has always taken up the cause of oppressed peoples around the world.

"We have come here to publicize the cry of our religious brethren who live under Zionist state oppression," he said, referring to the running over of two ultra-Orthodox men by police cars in August during demonstrations against the Shabbat opening of a Jerusalem parking lot, and to the arrest of an ultra-Orthodox woman who allegedly starved her three-year-old son.
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Meyer added that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is in New York for a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, had "no right to speak in the name of Jewry.

"As Netanyahu tells the world his views on the Middle East crisis, we wish to make clear that his state, which presumptuously calls itself Israel, has no connection with the Torah or with Judaism," he said.

"We call upon President Obama and all the esteemed leaders of the world not to recognize the Zionists as leaders of the Jewish people."

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