In a Display of Irony Satmar Invite anti-Israel Mamzar'ani to the Seuda to Celebrate the Zionist Rescue of R' Yoel Teitelbaum

 

You can’t make this up. The Satmar Rebbe, Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, was rescued from the Holocaust in 1944 on the Kastner train — a mission organized by the Zionist Rudolf Kastner that saved 1,684 Jews from Hungary. Without Kastner’s negotiations, the Rebbe would not have survived.

And yet, Satmar Hasidim mark the 21st of Kislev (Kuf Alef Kislev) as a day of celebration, while simultaneously pushing a revisionist narrative that they were the ones who rescued him. That’s not just false — it’s a grotesque distortion of history.

Now comes the ultimate insult: Rabbi Aron Teitelbaum invites a virulent anti‑Israel politician, Mayor‑elect Mamzar’ani, to the very seuda commemorating this rescue. Think about that. A day that exists only because of a Zionist’s courage is being celebrated by honoring someone who despises Israel.

The hypocrisy is staggering. The irony is unbearable. And the tragedy is that Holocaust memory is being twisted to serve an agenda that spits in the face of the truth.

There is a quote from the Kloizenberger Rebbe z"l after the 6 day war in 1967,

After the Six Day War in 1967, someone told the Kloizenberger Rebbe z”l that Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum, the Satmar Rebbe z”l, had prohibited visiting the Kotel — because it was captured by Zionists.

The Kloizenberger Rebbe’s reply was cutting:

“If that’s the case, then one shouldn’t visit the Satmar Rebbe either — since he himself was rescued by a Zionist!”