Anti-Zionist rabbi Moshe Hirsch dies in Jerusalem

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JERUSALEM — Moshe Hirsch, an American-born anti-Zionist rabbi and close associate of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, has died in Jerusalem, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish group said Monday. He was 86.

Hirsch was a leading figure in Neturei Karta, a tiny ultra-Orthodox sect that opposes Israel's existence as a Jewish state and has embraced its enemies. He was born in New York and attended a
rabbinical academy in New Jersey.

Arafat, who died in 2004, appointed Hirsch his adviser on Jewish affairs.

The group is known for its members' 2006 trip to Iran, where they embraced the President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a Holocaust-denying conference. It also supports Gaza's Hamas rulers and the Lebanese Hezbollah militants.

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1. AFAIK, such groups have existed since the foundation of Israel.

According to their theology, the holy land of Israel can be proclaimed only by the Messiah himself. The man-made state of Israel is a mockery of the holy Israel in their view, because the jewish people were sent into exile until the coming of the son of man.