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Article: No Tolerance For Anti-Zionist In Madrid
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- The New York Jewish Week
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- July 18, 2008
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U.S. imam calls for Neturei Karta ban at Saudi-run interfaith conference.
Madrid- A top American Muslim leader and American Jewish groups formed an unlikely alliance this week against a fiercely anti-Zionist chasidic group at an interfaith conference in Madrid, spearheaded by Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah.
Dr. Sayyid Syeed, national director of the Islamic Society of North America, said he was upset by the planned participation in the conference, which opened this week, of Rabbi Yisrael Dovid Weiss, a representative of Neturei Karta from upstate Monsey. Rabbi Weiss was to be the only Jewish leader to address the gathering sponsored by the Saudi-affiliated Muslim World League.
Syeed said he ...