It is a serious danger to the Jewish people if they point to those who do not keep the Torah and deny Hashem and call them the leaders of the Jewish people. All the nations are thereby misled to think that they speak in the name of Jewry, and thus they are transformed into anti-Semites.

The existence of the Zionist State of Israel is preventing the Messiah from coming.

A pre-war leader of Hungarian Orthodoxy who allied with Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum in opposition to both Zionism and the accommodationist Agudat Israel.

The Jewish people have suffered many plagues — the Sadducees, Karaites, Hellenisers, Shabbesai Zvi, Haskalah, Reform and many others. But the strongest of them all is Zionism, because its heresy focuses on the center of Judaism.

The leading halachic authority of the pre-state Yishuv, who guided the Torah world's principled response to the establishment of the State and insisted on the separation of Torah Judaism from political Zionism.

Among the most prominent European opponents of Zionism in the interwar period. Held that the nationalist reinterpretation of Jewish identity was a grave religious error that would bring catastrophe.

Led decades of public opposition in Jerusalem to the Zionist state apparatus. (Note: Torah Jews is not affiliated with Neturei Karta today; we cite him only for historical completeness.)

The sixth Rebbe of Chabad- Lubavitch. Led his movement through Soviet oppression and consistently opposed the Zionist reframing of Jewish identity as nationhood rather than covenant.

Contemporary halachic authority continuing the tradition of Torah opposition to Zionism in our own generation.