UKIP Manchester mayoral candidate Shneur Odze criticized for tweeting image of smoldering scriptures on Passover eve
ed note–if anyone needed an explanation as to why there are these periodic wars taking place between the ‘left’ and the ‘right’ within organized Jewish interests, here is a prime example.
It is Jews such as the one featured in this story that make the smarter elements on ‘the left’ nervous, because by his actions and his words, he rips away the veil of civility that those on the left try to use in covering the real face of Judah-ism and what it means to be ‘a Jew’. It’s not that the left opposes his actions for any philosophical reasons, they most certainly DO NOT, due to the fact that the left holds Christianity in just as much disdain, derision and disgust.
Rather, it’s that he is TOO LOUD with his contempt of Christianity, and as such brings too much light and clarity to the issue, similar in many respects to those pictures showing the aftereffects of a child that has just been aborted.
Times of Israel
A high-profile rabbi and aspiring politician stirred up controversy in British media when he burned a Bible on the eve of Passover.
Rabbi Shneur Odze, a 33-year-old United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) candidate for mayor of Manchester, tweeted a photo of the burning bible last Monday.
‘Grateful to whoever put a missionary bible amongst our synagogue’s books. Was wondering what I’d burn my Chametz with,’ he tweeted, a reference to the leavened bread that Jews destroy on the eve of the Passover festival.
The tweet has since been deleted, but Britain’s Daily Mail reported on the incident on Sunday.
The Hebrew-English Bible was published by the Society for Distributing Hebrew Scriptures and placed in a local synagogue without permission by a member of the Christian group.
Odze claimed that the book contained not only the Old Testament, which Orthodox Jews consider holy, but also the Christian New Testament. The rabbi told the Mail that he had no option but to burn it, since it was produced by ‘an extreme proselytizing Christian sect of former Jews trying to convert practicing Jews to a belief in Christ as the prophesied Messiah.’
Giving it away, he said, would have led to the ‘fraudulent’ Bible being given to someone else, compounding the issue, and simply throwing it away would ‘disrespect what is still a religious tract.’
He later tweeted that ‘it’s given to Jews as a ‘Jewish bible’ but it’s not.’
A spokesman for the right-wing populist UKIP told the Mail that ‘While we understand the act, it was ill-advised to put a picture of it on social media which was also provocative and likely to be misunderstood.’
Odze, who once served as a councilor in north London for the Conservative Party, faces an uphill battle to become the first mayor of one of the UK’s biggest metropolitan areas.
The politician-rabbi is a member of the Chabad Lubavitch ultra-Orthodox Hasidic sect, and serves several communities in the northern British city. He is a close friend of former UKIP head Nigel Farage and Paul Nuttall.
He also chairs the UKIP Friends of Israel group.
To the Editor, you hit it right on the head.