Mission Statement

Neturei Karta International (NKI) is a community of activists representing many Jews worldwide who stand up for and promote traditional Jewish opposition to the philosophy of Zionism, reject the legitimacy of the existence of the State of Israel, its occupation of Palestine, and condemn its ongoing wars and atrocities inside and outside Palestine.

Judaism

For thousands of years, the Jewish people were self-defined solely as a religious community, the adherents of the religion of Judaism. The essence of Judaism is the wholehearted belief in G-d and the Torah He transmitted to us at Mount Sinai 3,300 years ago, when we made a covenant with G-d to be subservient to Him and adhere to His commandments.

Zionism

In 1897, the Zionist movement was formed by Jews who defected from Judaism. Zionism is a self-proclaimed social engineering project whose goal is to transform the identity of the Jewish people from a religious community to a material, European-style political nationalism, devoid of belief in G-d and fulfillment of His Commandments. This transformation is a fundamental uprooting of Judaism and an erasure of the Jewish people.

Exile

One of the basics of Judaism is that, since our banishment from the Holy Land nearly two thousand years ago by Divine decree , Jews are in exile and are required to be loyal citizens in whichever country we reside. We are forbidden to wage wars or rebel against any people, nation, or country.

The Torah forbids Jews from having their own sovereignty. Exile can only end miraculously, by G-d alone, without any human intervention. All mankind will then unite in the brotherly service of the Creator.

Zionism is Antithetical to Judaism

Therefore, the ideology of Zionism, a recent innovation, which seeks to force the end of exile, is contrary to Jewish belief and millennia of well-accepted Jewish tradition. This is why Zionism was met with Rabbinic opposition from the very beginning of its inception.

Zionism Chose Palestine

To accomplish their goal of statehood, the Zionists chose Palestine, a land with its own people, and initiated a brutal process of taking over the land while forcibly displacing its inhabitants, the Palestinians. Ever since the establishment of the Zionist entity in Palestine, the indigenous people of Palestine have suffered all forms of brutal oppression, including occupation, killings, and theft—all of which are clear violations of the laws of the Torah.

Despite being the opposite of what Judaism represents, the Zionist entity calls itself a Jewish state. Since they are using our identity to violate Judaism, we, as true followers of the Jewish religion, are required to stand up and clarify that Judaism and Zionism are diametric opposites. Jewish opposition to Zionism is as old as Zionism itself.

Our Mission

Neturei Karta is dedicated to educating the world and being the voice of the original Jewish religion as it was practiced before Zionism and continues to be practiced by multitudes of Orthodox Jews worldwide. We emphasize Jewish condemnation of the occupation of Palestine and the oppression of its people.

The Solution

Zionism continues to be the root cause of the conflict and suffering. Only with its removal can peace be re-established in Palestine, resulting in a totally free Palestine.

We participate in many joint Muslim-Jewish events and meet with representatives and leaders of countries and groups in an effort to build bridges and further spread our message of peace and authentic Torah views.

Jews and Muslims have religious differences, but these differences existed in centuries past as well. And it hasn’t been, and isn’t, an impediment to peaceful coexistence. Jews lived in many Muslim-majority countries under the protection of Muslim governments, coexisting peacefully.

Our Goals

We aim to mitigate the desecration of the name of the Almighty Caused by the existence of Zionism, the State of Israel, and its atrocities. To educate and clarify to the world the fraudulence and inauthenticity of Zionism as a Jewish movement or as a legitimate state in any form.

Thereby we demand the removal of the Zionist occupation from all of Palestine—similar to the dismantling of apartheid in South Africa.

To reduce the dangerous hatred between Jews and Arabs caused by Zionism, which has led to so much bloodshed on both sides. We hope to rebuild the peaceful coexistence of Jews and Arabs in Palestine and throughout the world, as it was before the invention of Zionism.

On this website, we present updated photos and descriptions of our ongoing activities. We bring you facts seldom reported by standard news outlets.

We also aim to reach our Jewish brethren who may have been educated to think that Zionism is part and parcel of Judaism. Unfortunately, Jewish concepts and beliefs that were once obvious to all Jews have become doubtful, disputed, or unknown. Therefore, we present source materials from Jewish texts, quotes from famous Jewish leaders, and a comprehensive collection of questions and answers, arranged by subject. These are real questions asked by our readers over the past decades. Reading our Q&A section is a great way to learn more about the subject of Zionism, Judaism, and related topics.

May G-d Almighty make us all privileged to see the age of redemption, when “the earth will be filled with knowledge of G-d as the waters cover the sea” (Isaiah 11:9).
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