Moshe Hirsch
Rabbi Moshe Hirsch is prominent for his anti-Zionist rhetoric and practices. He lives above the shuk (market) in Meah Shearim, an old Haredi Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem.
He served on Yassir Arafat's cabinet as Minister for Jewish Affairs and is a leading figure in the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta movement.
He is originally from New York, and studied in Yeshivas Chaim Berlin.
His extreme behavior is a departure from Rabbi Amram Blau's Neturei Karta, which would never align with the Palestinians or any other one of Israel's enemies.
External links
Official website of Neturei Karta
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Moshe Hirsch was also allegidly close to Aaron Kotler who was known to have said, "We [Agudas Yisroel] do not answer criticism from the right [Neturei Karta], because they too are G-d fearing Jews." (Williamsburgh Memories) His siddur, Siddur Vilna, is used in Lithuanian style synagogues all over the world, and his ideas, if not his methods, were endorced by Rav Manachem Man Shach, leader of the non-Hasidic Heradi in Israel, who publicly said, "We are exactly like Neturei Karta, only our strategies differ." (Conversations with Rav Shach)