Yisroel Dovid Weiss

Who is Yisroel Dovid Weiss?

Yisroel Dovid Weiss, a United States Haredi rabbi, is an activist and spokesman for a minority branch of Neturei Karta, an anti-Zionist grouping of Haredi Jews. Based in Monsey, New York, he believes that observant Jews should peacefully oppose the existence of the Israeli state: "It would be forbidden for us to have a State, even if it would be in a land that is desolate and uninhabited."

Weiss was criticized in 2006 for his participation in the International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust, widely considered to be an event promoting Holocaust denial internationally, although claimed to speak as "the voice of the people who died in the Holocaust".