The Jewish Chabad movement, which dug tunnels in New York City which were revealed to be holding a small soiled mattress and a high chair, has a dark history of pedophilia within its executive branch.
In 1991, one of the Chabad movement’s most prominent members, Hirschel Pekkar, who created the famous Chabad Menorah, admitted to “doing things that shouldn’t be done” to a 5-year-old girl, after she accused him of child sexual abuse.
Despite the admission, Pekkar faced no legal action and no further scrutiny. The situation was kept within the Chabad movement, with a rabbinical court ordering Pekkar to be treated by an “expert counselor.”
this is a sketchy source that seems to be peddling the same anti-semitic rhetoric that Musk’s far-right xitter trolls are using. what evidence is there to any of these claims?
The story from The Daily Beast as well: https://www.thedailybeast.com/abuse-accuser-sues-estate-of-lubavitch-silversmith-hirschel-pekkar-seeks-his-famous-menorah
The Times of Israel: https://jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/creator-of-chabads-famous-menorah-sexually-abused-girl-lawsuit-claims/
And the actual court filing: https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=vfyPk64my76p7Qta4zyeyg==
yeah, but what the original article is suggesting is that the tunnels were constructed to perpetuate child sexual abuses. the lawsuit mentions nothing about the tunnels and only alleges the rabi sexual abused the victim.
my comment stands that the original source article is peddling conspiracies and antisemitism by alleging that the tunnels were constructed to conceal child sexual abuses.
This makes about as much sense as saying that a tunnel below a Catholic church or at a boy scout camp must be related to child trafficking because both organizations have had problems with pedophiles in their ranks.
These organizations have been accused of sweeping problems under the rug and protecting pedophiles in their ranks, not of pizzagatey trafficking cabals.
The official story is pretty nuts, though. From the Wikipedia page on that synagogue:
Schneerson died back in 94, for what it’s worth, and was the rabbi at 770. He said something about expanding the building before he died, but due to the ownership dispute that wasn’t possible.
The building contains a yeshiva, basically the Jewish equivalent of a seminary. A bunch of the messianic yeshiva students decided that they could kick-start the expansion by physically tunneling it out, so then they’d just fill it with the expansion and trigger Schneerson’s return and the messianic age. So unusually insane cult-y religious nonsense, but it seems more likely than “pizzagate under a synagogue”
