Yisroel Dovid Weiss

Yisroel Dovid Weiss (; born 1952) and spokesman for the worldwide religious group Neturei Karta. Residing in Monsey, New York, he believes that 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." He advocates a complete return of land to Palestinians, rejecting the 1967 borders and advocating coexistence. He believes that the restoration of the Land of Israel to the Jews should only happen with the coming of the Messiah, and not by self-determination.

In 2006, Weiss was criticized for attending the International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust, which promotes Holocaust denial. Co-speakers included David Duke and convicted Holocaust deniers. Weiss, who himself lost most of his family in the Holocaust, stated that he acknowledges the Holocaust's historical reality but criticizes Israelis for exploiting it, asserting that many Jews oppose Zionism.

Biography Weiss grew up in Borough Park, Brooklyn, New York City. His mother was originally from Poland. His father's family was from Hungary. Most of his family was killed during the Holocaust.

Anti-Zionist campaigning Weiss speaks at rallies and conferences in the United States and internationally, criticizing Israel and Zionism. In 2001, he attended the UN-organized World Conference against Racism in Durban, South Africa, as part of the Islamic Human Rights Commission delegation. During the conference, US and Israeli delegates walked out in protest of singling out of Israel.

In November 2006, Weiss stated at a protest in New York City that, "Zionism is a fundamentally heretical movement which denies the Divine imperative that Jews remain in exile until the day when all mankind will be miraculously redeemed". He repeated his claim at a 2011 conference in London, calling for Israel to be "dismantled" and saying the country is a "Zionist state that has kidnapped the name of Judaism".

Visit to Iran, and stance on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad In December 2006, as part of a six-member delegation from the small fringe group Neturei Karta, It was described by media sources such as NPR and London's Jewish Chronicle as a gathering of Holocaust deniers. In his five-minute speech, Weiss addressed the issue of Holocaust denial:

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 cannot 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 cannot refute, but that being said, it doesn't mean that the Holocaust is a tool to use to oppress other people.

American Jewish organisations, including Agudath Israel of America and the Orthodox Union, issued statements distancing themselves from Weiss. The executive vice president of the Orthodox Union, Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, has called the group "embarrassing", In early December 2023 Weiss and his Neturei Karta contingent journeyed to South Africa to attend the Fifth Global Convention of Solidarity with Palestine, a convention which received criticism because of the attendance of Hamas representatives. On 12 February 2025, Weiss was harassed by supporters from the Zionist organization, Betar.

Weiss's reaction to critics Weiss asserted that the Jewish world had misunderstood the actions of Neturei Karta. He said the organization did not appear at the conference to deny the Holocaust, but to draw a distinction between Zionists and Jews. Weiss stated that he believed Ahmadinejad is not an enemy of the Jews, but is a "God-fearing man [who] respects the Jewish people, and he protects them in Iran".