Why are Jewish influencers suddenly talking about Meir Kahane?
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Fast Forward Extremist Jewish Power Party Leaves Right-Wing Alliance Ahead Of Elections
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The extremist right-wing Jewish Power party, or Otzma Yehudit, said it will not run on the same list with the Jewish Home Party like it did in April. Otzma Yehudit said that Jewish Home was not honoring the terms of the merger agreement, including not requiring its Knesset members appointed last week…
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Fast Forward Israel’s Attorney General: Don’t Let Kahanist Party Leader Run For Office
Israel’s Attorney General recommended that Israel’s Central Elections Committee ban the leader of an extremist Jewish party at a volatile meeting of the Elections Committee on Wednesday. In his letter the committee, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit advised banning Otzma Yehudit party head Michael Ben-Ari from running in the upcoming Israeli elections for incitement to racism,…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Orchestrates Merger To Bring Extremists Into Knesset
The Israeli right-wing party Jewish Home merged on Wednesday with a small extremist party led by followers of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, all but guaranteeing Knesset seats for the extremists. Kahane’s party was banned from running in Israeli elections in 1988 for racism, then banned entirely in 1994 under anti-terrorism laws. Two Kahanist groups,…
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Fast Forward Jewish Militants Seek White Nationalist Alliance — But Draw The Line At Nazis
Followers of the radical Jewish militant Meir Kahane are aligning themselves with white nationalists and the “alt-right.” “I am a Jewish nationalist first and foremost, but Jews are white, so naturally I recognize the logic behind white nationalism,” said Jonathan Stern, a New York-based Kahanist, in an interview with Amerika.org, a website in the “alt-right”…
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News Kahanist Won’t Defend Montana Jews Against Neo-Nazi March
Supporters of the far-right Jewish Defense League, an extremist group angling for a resurgence in the wake of Donald Trump’s election, say they are sympathetic to the white nationalism of the “alt-right” — and have no plans to push back against an anti-Jewish march planned in Whitefish, Montana by a neo-Nazi. At a New York…
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Opinion Jerusalem Protest Breeds Color War, Not Civil War
Settler youth bear signs reading “Girls of Israel for the nation of Israel,” “A king’s daughter doesn’t date a non-Jew,” and “No more assimilation!” / Elisheva Goldberg Last night in Jerusalem, Arabs and Jews (well, mostly Jews) got together at an event called “Pashut Sharim” or “Just Singing,” a four-year-old initiative funded primarily by Hillel…
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