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Yisroel Dovid Weiss
OccupationHaredi Rabbi

Yisroel Dovid Weiss (born 1956) is an adherent of Neturei Karta, a controversial anti-Zionist grouping of Haredi Jews. He is based in Monsey, New York and 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."[1] Weiss has been condemned by other anti-zionists, such the Edah HaChareidis[2] and Satmar,[3] for having gone to Tehran Holocaust conference.

Background

Rabbi Weiss is the son of Hungarian Jewish holocaust survivors, who were active in anti-Zionist activities even before the establishment of the State of Israel. His father spent the period of Nazi occupation hiding in a cellar, and survived to immigrate to America. His grandparents and all of his aunts and uncles were lost in the war.[4]

Anti-Zionist campaigning

In 2001, Rabbi Weiss attended the UN-organized World Conference against Racism in Durban, South Africa as part of the Islamic Human Rights Commission delegation. [5] During the conference, US and Israeli delegates walked out during an unsuccessful attempt to condemn Israel for racism.[6]

In December 2006 he spoke at the International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust, held by the Iranian government in Tehran and widely condemned as a gathering of Holocaust deniers.[7] In his five minute speech, Rabbi Weiss addressed the issue of holocaust denial as well:

Now maybe I can say that at the discussion of the holocaust, I may be the representative, the voice of the people who died in the holocaust because my grandparents died there. They were killed in Auschwitz. My parents were from Hungary. My father escaped and his parents remained. He wasn’t able to get them out of Hungary and they died in Auschwitz as were other relatives and all the communities that they knew. So to say that they didn’t die, to me you can not say that. I am the living remnant of the people who died in the holocaust and I am here, I believe sent by God, to humbly say, simply to speak to the people here and say, 'You should know that the Jewish people died, and do not try to say that it did not happen. They did die!' There are people throughout the Jewish communities, still alive in their seventies and eighties and every one of them will tell you their stories. It is something which you can not refute, but that being said, it doesn’t mean that the holocaust is a tool to use to oppress other people.[1]

Rabbi Weiss believes that Israelis have used the Holocaust to gain sympathy and advantage but does not believe the Holocaust toll is exaggerated.[8]

Response to Weiss's Tehran speech

Both the anti-Zionist Edah HaChareidis[2] and Satmar hasidim,[3] have condemned Weiss and the other Haredim who went to Tehran. Shmuel Poppenheim, editor of Ha'edah, the newspaper of the Edah HaChareidis, stated: “That tiny group of weirdos is liable to incite hatred against haredim.”[2] The Satmar movement published an official denunciation of “fanaticism, and those committing insane acts to walk hand in hand with the Arabs.”[3]

The Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel, Yonah Metzger, called on world Rabbis to reject Neturei Karta members who participated in the Holocaust denial conference, to deny them entry into Temples and to act as if they were placed in cherem.[9] American Jewish organisations including Agudath Israel of America and the Orthodox Union, have also issued statements distancing themselves from Weiss.[10]

Since returning to the U.S. from the conference, Weiss and other individuals who attended have been ostracized by synagogues, denied service at kosher stores, and have been the subject disparagement in various communities with strong Orthodox Jewish populations such as Brooklyn and Monsey.[11] A demonstration outside a Neturi Karta synagogue on the 7th of January was met by a counter-demonstration of "several hundred" supporters of Rabbi Weiss.[12]

Quotes

  • "The Jewish people have been living in Muslim countries, including Palestine, in peace and harmony with their Arab neighbors, until the advent of Zionism."
  • "Apologize to the Palestinian people for the inequities suffered under Israel, disband the Jewish state and live in peace under Muslim rule."
  • "The Zionists use the Holocaust issue to their benefit. We, Jews who perished in the Holocaust, do not use it to advance our interests. We stress that there are hundreds of thousands Jews around the world who identify with our opposition to the Zionist ideology and who feel that Zionism is not Jewish, but a political agenda...What we want is not a withdrawal to the '67 borders, but to everything included in it, so the country can go back to the Palestinians and we could live with them..."[13][14]
  • "You should know that the Jewish people died, and do not try to say that it did not happen. They did die!" - to the Tehran Holocaust Conference.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Speech by Rabbi Y. D. Weiss, Tehran Conference , December 2006". Neturei Karta International. December 12, 2006. Retrieved 2007-03-06. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. ^ a b c Wagner, Matthew (December 14, 2006). "Haredim slam fringe over Iran parley". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 2007-03-06. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. ^ a b c Sela, Neta (December 15, 2006). "Satmar court slams Neturei Karta". Ynetnews. Retrieved 2007-03-06. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. ^ Weiss, Yisroel Dovid; Beck, Moshe Dov (Ber); Weberman, Mordecai (January 11, 2007). "Recent AntiZionist Rabbis meeting with Ahmadienjad" (YouTube) (video). Interviewed by Harold Hudson Channer. {{cite interview}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |city= (help); Unknown parameter |callsign= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |program= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |subjectlink= ignored (|subject-link= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ The Race Against Racism: A report of IHRC's work at the UN World Conference Against Racism, 2001 (Islamic Human Rights Commission) November 1, 2001.
  6. ^ Racism summit seeks breakthrough (BBC) September 5, 2001.
  7. ^ Iran Hosts Large Meeting of Holocaust Deniers, All Things Considered, 11 December 2006.
  8. ^ "Correction: Iran-Holocaust-Conference". {{cite web}}: Text "date January 09, 2007" ignored (help); Text "publisher Fox News" ignored (help)
  9. ^ Sela, Neta (December 14, 2006). "Rabbi Metzger: Boycott Neturei Karta participants of Iran conference". Ynetnews. Retrieved 2007-03-07. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  10. ^ Berkman, Jacob (December 19, 2006). "Orthodox furious at anti-Zionist sect". Jewish United Fund. Retrieved 2007-03-06. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  11. ^ Santos, Ferdinand (January 15, 2007, corrected January 17, 2007). "New York Rabbi Finds Friends in Iran and Enemies at Home". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-03-06. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  12. ^ Protest at Monsey, NY Synagogue (Neturei Karta International) January 7 2007
  13. ^ Neturei Karta in Iran: Zionists use Holocaust by Roee Nahmias, (YNetNews) 12 March, 2006.
  14. ^ Neturei Karta sect pays visit to Iran by Michael Freund (Jerusalem Post) 8 March 2006.


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