Frieda Vizel is a former Satmar Chasid who left the community, yet she remains deeply connected to it. She has even built a business guiding non‑Jews and non‑affiliated Jews through Williamsburg so they can see firsthand how Chasidim live. There’s nothing wrong with that in itself. But when she receives antisemitic comments on a nonbinary video—(see below)—she seems genuinely shocked, unable to understand why it happened.
This confusion stems from her Satmar upbringing, which instills the belief that they are the “authentic” Jews, while Zionists are somehow outside the Jewish people. When Satmar Hasidim speak to non‑Jews, they often try to convey this distinction. But the reality is that non‑Jews do not see these internal divisions. To them, Jews are Jews. Antisemites throughout history—including the Nazis—never differentiated between Satmar Hasidim and Zionists. Hitler didn't bother to kosher the ovens between burning Satmar Chassidim and burning Zionists!
Even though Frieda left the community, she still carries many of its assumptions. As the saying goes: you can bring a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.
I truly believe Frieda is a kind and gentle person with good intentions. But that is precisely what makes her influence so concerning. She has thousands of non‑Jewish followers who respect her deeply, and she now wants to use that platform to teach them about internal Jewish divisions.
In her videos, she tends to group all “victims” together. She avoids acknowledging Jewish victims specifically, instead equating Israeli women who were raped and murdered with Arab civilians in Gaza—many of whom supported a terrorist regime that launched tens of thousands of rockets at Israel long after Israel withdrew from Gaza. She insists on feeling equally for all “victims,” which ignores the moral and historical context.
She now wants to explain to her followers that not all Jews support Israel, and that some religious Jews believe Zionism caused the Holocaust and that the State of Israel should not exist. She hopes that by doing so, non‑Jews will understand that her community “has nothing to do with Israel.” She genuinely believes this distinction will matter to them.
But she fails to grasp a simple truth: antisemites do not care about these nuances.
In her recent video about her trip to Poland, she once again expresses genuine bewilderment at the antisemitic comments she received. She even says she would like to “have a dialogue” with the commenters. She wants to open a conversation with people whose hostility toward Jews is so deeply rooted that they themselves could never articulate its origins. Frieda seems to childishly believe that if she just engages them kindly enough, she can change their minds. For hundreds of years, the Pols murdered and pillaged their Jewish neighbors and were Hitler's willing executioners, but she wants to understand them and perhaps change their minds. Nazis knew where to place their largest extermination center, yes, in Poland in the city of Oswiecim, Auschwitz!
It’s a level of naïveté that reflects her upbringing: the belief that dialogue alone can dissolve centuries‑old hatred. She truly thinks that by talking, she can persuade committed antisemites whose parents assisted the Nazis, to rethink their views. It’s a mindset that only someone shaped by her Satmar background could sincerely hold.
This kind of naïveté is dangerous.
We have seen similar tragedies in Israel. Some of the most left‑leaning Israelis—people who truly believed in coexistence and built friendships with Gazans—were brutally murdered by those very same people on October 7. Their goodwill and their "dialogs" did not protect them, on the contrary it was their death trap, as they had a false sense of security thinking that the Gazans would never commit these atrocities!
Frieda has not internalized this lesson. She does not understand—and perhaps never will—that her son, who may not look visibly Jewish, is still viewed by antisemites the same way as a Jew wearing a kippah and tzitzit. To them, a secular Israeli at a music festival and a Chariedi Jew in Williamsburg are the same.
Another important point that you will only see on DIN
When Satmar or Neturei Karta tell Goyim that they believe that the Torah doesn't allow a State until Moshiach comes, they don't tell them what they truly believe will happen AFTER Moshiach comes!
Both Satmar and Neturei Karta believe that when Moshiach comes all the Arabs will be driven out of Eretz Yisrael to make room for the Jews!!
Deep down they have absolutely no respect for Goyim and lie to them about Zionists! If they had any respect for them they would tell them their true beliefs, the fact that they themselves are Zionists as well!
Satmar won't tell Goyim that they yearn for a time when ALL Jews will return to Eretz Yisrael! That they have Eretz Yisrael in ALL their prayers! And that they shout at their Seder Table "Next Year in Yerushlayim"
They don't tell them that there is basically only one difference between them and Zionists....... and that it is ........"timing!"
Zionists believe that we have to do hishtadlis and live there in the here and now, and Satmar prays and yearns to live in Eretz Yisrael ASAP as soon as Moshiach comes, which can even happen today!
I wonder ....Why don't they share that with them?
