Rav Yaakov Shapiro at Anti Draft Demonstration in Brussels

[Music] against you the [Applause] I would like to call upon Rabbi shapo from Flat bush has come [Music] especially to honor us at this protest and to put forward our plea and our protest against the Zionist under the oppression which is going on in Israel citizens of the European union members of the press friends and fellow protesters we're here this afternoon for one reason because the homeland of the Jewish people is being attacked the homeland of the Jewish people is attacked by vile enemies who want to see it destroyed but we're here to beseech the nations of the European Union to help us survive the aggression of these as salant to lend us a hand in our battle because an existential threat to our very continuity threatens to destroy us but before we ask the help of others first we need to introduce ourselves we are members of the nation of the Jews the ancient people who received the tah on Mount Si from Hashem and through it we introduced to the world's religious and moral values of universal significance our homeland is the we don't have a nation states we are a religion within the within our homeland within its bord we flourish outside of its borders we die and in every successive generation Jews strove to maintain the Integrity of this homeland of ours which has accompanied us into every territory that we've lived during the 2,000 years of our Exile so long as we remain within the confines of our homelands the toha we were protected from our enemies the world wonders how the Jews survive for 2,000 years in Exile with no political infrastructure no Army no common land language or culture but we don't wonder we survived because we did not reely on an army A Land a culture armies are defeated lands are conquered and cultures come and go but the holy T is eternal and its protection is eternal and its people are Eternal so long as they remain its people the people of the Tyra the Jewish Nation that's who we represent today we were a proud people proud to be the custodian of the Eternal book of books Proud To Live Our Lives morally and in dignity and in Conformity with the will of God we were proud to be the Jewish Nation we when we prospered we were proud and when we were persecuted we were proud especially when we were persecuted we were proud We were proud when we were persecuted that we were not like our persecutors we were proud that we were not our oppressors we were proud that we were the oppressed and not the oppressors we were proud that we thanked God every day when we were persecuted that we were prophets and not persecutors but there were those that didn't buy into that there were those who were jealous of the anti-semites of their ruthlessness their physical strength their tanks and their PLS they were ashamed that we were different than our persecutors they looked at the jew the same way the anti-semites did ugly despicable weak and shameful they looked at the jew the way one imagines a gorilla an animal would look at a human being weak pale and worthless they were a Jewish version of the anti-semites they hated jewishness but they were Jews self-loathing Jews against Judaism they hated Judaism but they could not live amongst the anti-semites because the anti anti-semites persecuted them too despite the common way that they looked at the Jewish people so their solution was Zionism its goal to destroy all that which makes the Jews in their eyes so weak so ugly so despised to destroy that which makes the Jewish people so so Jewish they diagnosed what they called the Jewish problem and the guilty party was Judaism our religion itself as that first prime minister believed religion was the national tragedy of the Jewish people if not for religion if we would be like a persecutor uters life would be much better but don't believe me about this let's let the zionists speak for themselves and I quote from one of their founding fathers Vladimir jabotinsky Shan ROV quote our starting point the starting point of Zionism is to take the typical years and to imagine his diametrical opposite because the is ugly sickly and lacks theorum we will give the ideal image of the Hebrew masculine Beauty the yid is easily frightened and therefore the Hebrew ought to be proud and independent the yid is despised and therefore the Hebrew ought to be Charming the yid has accepted submission and therefore the Hebrew needs to learn how to command the yid wants to conceal his identity and therefore Hebrew should look in the world of the eye and say I am a Hebrew the zionists considered religion the national tragedy of the Jewish people they considered jewishness a problem that needed to be eradicated and they did their best to eradicate it to replace religion with nationalism to replace the talmud with tanks to change the people of the book to the people of the bomb so they obtained the land and declared it to be the nation state of the Jewish people they created a language why do they need to create a language wouldn't it be easier for them to import people that speak whatever language they had in their previous country they don't need a language in order to protect themselves from their enemies they need a language in order to create a new nation and they declared their language the national language of the Jewish people they created an army and they declared randomly that that's the army that defends the Jewish people from its enemies from another Holocaust finally we have a land they said finally we have an army finally we have a language this Zionism was the final solution of the zionists to the problem of Judaism but the Jewish people have no nation states we have no common language and there is no Army of the Jews they stole the name Israel which is a synonym for Jew and they stole the adjective Jewish and applied it to something that doesn't apply to a all estate what is a Jewish states can you tell me I know what a Jewish person is I know what a Jewish philosophy is but the adjective Jewish how does that accommodate the N state do you know what do you know what Jewish tree is a Jewish car Jewish is a religion a state only applies to a nation state Italians they have a state Italy and the Spanish have it State Spain and to the zionists what Italy makes the Italians into a People Israel made the Jewish people into a people as well I'm going to explain now why we're so opposed to going into their army why we can explain this to the nations of the world who are listening here and the people of the press and then I'm going to explain why we can't compromise for 100 years and more this assault on our Jewish identity was raging the zionists attacked our identity with every means at it disposal as identity theft sism is identity theft against the Jewish people they stole our name they say that they're Israel they say that they represent the Jewish people I identity theft and the strongest weapon that they have to succeed in the identity theft is indoctrination propaganda rewriting of Jewish history conditioning the Jewish youth with their ideals which are all the antithesis of Judaism and the strongest tool of indoctrination is their army the Israeli Army isn't only a military organization designed to defend and attack it's an indoctrination C it's different than the American Army or the British army or the Belgium Army the American Army is there to fight for America the British army is there to fight for Britain but the Zionist Army is there to teach Zionism to in they teach to this day that the great four fraud who's put to death by our sages bar Kaza whose militarism resulted in the greatest bloodbath in the past 2,000 years safe for the Holocaust is a national hero and role model they teach that the murderers the rosim on top of Mada who butchered 700 innocent men and women and children in a GTI are our role models they still teach to this day that the state of Israel and army what keep the Jewish people safe they still teach the falsehood that Jews went like sheep to the slaughter in the Holocaust they teach that nationalism is jewishness they teach our children that Israel is the Jewish nation state and its existence is what maintains the continuity of the Jewish people and not to mention that the atmosphere in their army their red light zone Army even in the so-called religious units is totally in congruous with our religious teachings can you imagine a country that would say that would take I don't know Christianity and teach in their army that what you learned in your church is not really Christianity we in the Army know what it is we in the government know what it is everything your fathers taught you is false they were not saviors of your people they were the troublemakers we are the saviors that's what they teach in the Army that's what the Army is for if the Army wants people to go there let them become a secular Army then we would handle it the way we handle drafts in the United States in Belgium and France they wanted to be in indoctrination Camp there's no such thing would it be tolerated in any country in the world that an army should mix in that a government should mix in to the religious identity of its citizens did you ever hear of such a thing it's not just the Israel army it's the Zionist Army and Zionism is a version of Judaism of jewishness did you ever hear such a thing that a government a country should mix in and teach what Jewish is everyone can understand this every country in the world can understand this Israel needs to learn what Europe learned a long time ago during the Emancipation that governments have no business mixing into the religious identity of their people besides that we want to keep our religion it's worse than that we're against the draft because we don't want to practice the Zionist religion it's more than we want to practice Jud they're forcing us to go to the indoctrination camps the education camps the brainwashing camps where they teach us ideals that are just the opposite of what the tyraa teaches we're here to tell Israel that Jews will not go like sheep to the slaughter to your indoctrination camps messing with the aivas is a red line that they don't dare cross but it's not a red line drawn on some chart with some marker it's a red line etched in blood in the blood of every y that was it's a red line exed in the blood of it's a it's a red line exed in the blood of the Six Million and we stand at that red line and we tell the state of Israel don't you dare try to cross this line because we'll be mo nees and that line will get thicker and bigger and you'll have to do us all in but we're not going to let you take Al we're not going to let you destroy theas I want to tell you why we can't compromise you know when we celebrate the T we have this this ritual we C CLE the to make what we call hakus I want to explain of and why hakus is a celebration for the to what it stands for we have there are two types of tragedies that befall the Jewish people two types of gazis they're gazis against the Jewish physical well-being like we had with the Persians on purin they wanted to kill us then they are gazis not against the Jews but against the T like on Kan with the Greeks the rule is that whenever they make a gazer against the Jewish people we pray to Hashem and we have and Hashem fights our Wars but when they make a against the toyra like by Kan we pull out the swords because Hashem fights for the Jewish people but he gave us the to to protect he gave us the to he was a p that he gave us and he said I expect you to protect this that's our job protects Us in the we celebrate that all the heat of impious and all danger God protected us with for 2,000 years God protected Us in his version of the an what can we give back to Hashem how can we protect his to God protects us now we protect the to how we can't snap our fingers and make an we can't make magic words and make it but there's one thing we can give Hashem what can we give him we could bees we are the way to show we are the Protectors of the to our lives we will be the attack the toyra we protect the toyra and we say to them you have to get through us if you want to harm the toyra over our dead bodies we Jews we are the an to protect the Hashem protects us and we protect the Tyra our message to the European Union here is that we come to you for help because we are being forced to go through indoctrination camps of the Zionist religion no Democratic country in the world would tolerate such a thing we tell the B stand fast any Jew that's thrown in jail because he's a is a we tell them we tell Hashem your enemies are our enemies and we tell the Israeli government build more jails cuz you're going to need them soon we hope that today the European Union will make a decision to help us in our Endeavor because on our side is 2,000 years of Jewish history on our side is the r Shum and on our side is the Jewish Nation