A murdered anti-Zionist figure was canonized as a saint by Haredi activists

Evidence

De Haan also is recalled by Neturei Karta as a veritable saint. In 1975, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of his murder, the Neturei Karta proclaimed that “Professor De Haan’s memory should be given more and more prominence. His body, pouring blood, carried in the darkness of the night should be pictured on every wall. The last feeble beats of his pure heart should forever sound with the rhythm of reawakening and revival.” — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 462

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader dynamic of martyrdom and sacred memory — the murdered outsider becoming a rallying symbol for a strict-religious camp, echoing themes in the reader’s notes on how marginalized figures get sanctified posthumously.