Burning The Zionist Flag

 

According to the שלחן ערוך (O.Ch. 169:1- 2), We may not serve food (bread) to a non-Frum person unless he will wash (נטילת ידים) and make the appropriate ברכות. R. S.Z. Auerbach zt"l writes, (Halichos Shlomo 1:34)  "If the non-Frum person will feel offended (even if asked politely) to wash etc. and might come to hate the שומרי תורה ומצות for not feeding him, then it is better to disregard the Halacha in שלחן ערוך and we should feed him. Having non-Frum hate the Frum Yidden is a bigger מכשול." According to R.S.Z. Auerbach. it would seem that even if burning Zionist Flags were to be a Mitzvah mentioned in שלחן ערוך, we should avoid doing so being it will make the non-Frum hate us. Probably. the flag burners believe that the non-frum don't mind if Frum Yidden burn their flag and won't hate them for doing so.