I was asked what I meant in the recent article describing “the ויגזול את החנית strategy of Yerushalmi rabbis versus the hot-heads” hinted at in the Imrei Emes’ famous letter.
Rabbi Malinowitz says it best (see the rest here):
RM: Those who quickly made this a case of us against them –would they do so if a chareidi robbed Bank Mizrachi?Questioner: If a charedi robbed Bank Mizrachi in the name of the Torah, and if R. Kopschitz sat on the dais of a gathering organized by the robber, then I hope so.RM: R’ Kopschitz is not a kook. Rav Kopschitz was doing what that community does when the kooks get the headlines. They make a harmless asifah about the inyan and rail against it..this marginalizes the kooks within their community even more, and lets steam be let out in a harmless way, and shows that their leaders agree in principle for what is being fought for (that the school should move out). That is how they function. You may not like it, you may want the asifah to be against the violence, you may not like the idea that they are advocating the school’s moving–but that is not the point. This is their way of cooling tempers. (I do not want a discussion about that — I was merely addressing Rav Kopschitz’s intentions, to answer your questions)