Kahanism - Dr. Baruch Goldstein. Main article: Mosque of Abraham massacre The deadliest attack was when Baruch Goldstein, affiliated with Kach through the JDL, killed 29 Arabs at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, in 1994. After this attack, members of Kach praised Goldstein's actions, and in the insuing political turmoil, the Knesset banned Kach in Israel. Kahanists believe the attack prevented a repeat of the 1929 Arab massacre of He ...

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Kahane's Kach had two central beliefs. The first was, the proposed forced transfer of those Arabs from the borders of Israel, including Israeli Arabs that oppose Israel. The second was the establishment of a democracy for Jews only inside the borders of Eretz Yisrael (the biblical land of Israel). Kach candidates ran for seats in the Knesset in 1973, only two years after Kahane's arrival to Israel. It failed to attract the minimum number of votes (at the time, one percent), and continued to fail to win the minimum number of votes in 1977 and 1981. The party finally gained a Knesset seat in ...

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Jewish Defense League - Terrorism and the JDL. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has described the Jewish Defense League in Congressional testimony as a "violent" and "extremist" group. In a sidebar in its "Terrorism 2000/2001" report, the Bureau said, "The Jewish Defense League has been deemed a right-wing terrorist group." It identified the group in a 1999 terrorism report as the perpetrator of several bombing and arson incidents that took place between 1980 and 1989. Mary Doran, an FBI street agent, describe ...

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JDL was founded in 1968 by Rabbi Meir Kahane. The goal of the group was to protect Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in New York City and to protest local manifestations of anti-Semitism. [1] The JDL describes itself in its mission statement as "an activist organization dedicated to the protection and defense of the Jewish people in the Diaspora" and vows "no sanctuary for those who threaten or attack Jewish individuals or institutions." ...

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The United States Department of State designates the group as a terrorist organization [1] and says that it has: Organized protests against the Israeli Government. Organized protests against Palestinians in Hebron. Vowed revenge for the death of Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane and his wife. The State Department also says that the group is suspected of involvement in a number of low-level attacks since the start of the Second Intifada in 2000. But several individuals in the US are chall ...

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Following Kahane's assassination in 1990 by an Arab, the movement split into two groups with similar ideologies and somewhat overlapping membership: Kach and Kahane Chai. Kach was originally led by Rabbi Avraham Toledano and later by Baruch Marzel out of Hebron. Kahane Chai was led by Meir's son Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane out of Kfar Tapuach until he and his wife were murdered in a random ambush by Palestinians in 2000. Both groups were outlawed by Israel in 1994 under anti-terrorism laws following statements in support of Baruch Go ...

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Meanwhile the JDL in the U.S. continued to branch out into terrorist activities, including the bombing of several buildings; the harassment, stalking and sometimes murder of prominent members of the JDL political and intellectual opposition; and the coordination of JDL activities with the Israeli Mossad (headed in the early '70's by Yitzhak Shamir). Consequently, police pressure began to build upon Kahane, an ...

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Following Kahane's death, no charismatic leader emerged to fill the void, and Kahane's radical ideology declined in popularity among Israelis. However, two small Kahanist factions later emerged: one under the name of Kach and the other Kahane chai (Hebrew: כהנא חי, literally "Kahane lives [on]"). In 1994 following the massacre in the Cave of the Patriarchs by a Kach supporter, the Israeli government declared both to be illegal terrorist organizations[4] [5]. The U.S. State Department has also added K ...

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Kahane was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1932. He came from a family that adhered to Orthodox Judaism. His father, Rabbi Yechezkel Shraga Kahane, was born in Safed, Palestine in 1905 and studied in yeshivot in Poland and Czechoslovakia. Later he emigrated to America, where he served as rabbi of two congregations. Meir Kahane received rabbinical ordination from the Mir yeshiva in Brooklyn. He was fully conversant with the Talmud and Tanakh, and worked as a pulpit rabbi and teacher in the 1960s. Subsequently, he earned a degree in i ...

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Kahane's overall views have been called Kahanism. Kahane adhered to the belief that Jewish law contains directions for how to run a Jewish state. He pointed out that having a Jewish state with non-Jewish citizens is an inherent contradiction, since the non-Jewish citizens may then become the majority and vote to make the state non-Jewish. He, among many others (such as Joan Peters), held that there is no such thing as a Palestinian people; that in fact the people who call themselves Palestinian are a mixture of disparate and unrelated Arab c ...

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While concluding a speech in Manhattan, New York, Kahane was murdered by El Sayyid Nosair, a member of an Arab terrorist cell operating in New York in 1990. According to prosecutors, a man named Wadih el Hage purchased the .38 caliber revolver used by Nosair. El-Hage was told by a man named Mahmud Abouhalima to buy the gun. Nosair was acquitted of murder because no witness had actually seen him pull the trigger, ...

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Following Kahane's death, no charismatic leader emerged to fill the void, and Kahane's radical ideology declined in popularity among Israelis. However, two small Kahanist factions later emerged: one under the name of Kach and the other Kahane chai (Hebrew: כהנא חי, literally "Kahane lives [on]"). In 1994 following the massacre in the Cave of the Patriarchs by a Kach supporter, the Israeli government declared both to be illegal terrorist organizations[3] [4]. The U.S. State Department has also added K ...

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