Jewish Group

-Meir Kahane, born Martin Kahane in Brooklyn in 1932, was an Orthodox rabbi who espoused a virulently racist ideology, founding a violent Jewish extremist movement and fascist political party in Israel.

-Kahane’s followers have murdered dozens of people and injured hundreds of others in numerous violent attacks against Palestinians, Americans, and others in Israel, the occupied Palestinian territories, and the United States. As a result, his Kach party, Jewish Defense League, and offshoots were labeled terrorist organizations by the US government. Kahane himself was arrested approximately 70 times in the US and Israel for planning and carrying out violent attacks but never received any serious punishment for his crimes.

-During Kahane’s lifetime, his movement was marginal in Israel. However, decades after his assassination in New York he remains an inspiration for Jewish extremists and his racist ideas are more mainstream and popular in Israel than ever. During the 2019 and 2021 Israeli election campaigns, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party entered into political agreements with Kahane’s followers in the Jewish Power party to help elect them to the Knesset (parliament), prompting condemnation even from some of Israel’s staunchest supporters. In December 2022, a devoted follower of Kahane, notorious Jewish Power leader Itamar Ben-Gvir, became Minister of National Security with expanded powers under Netanyahu, in control of Israel's police and its paramilitary border police in the occupied Palestinian West Bank.

-Kahane was a Jewish supremacist who espoused violence and wanted to establish a theocratic Jewish state encompassing not just all of current Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories (the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza), but large parts of neighboring Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq.
Kahane called for a strict separation of Jews and non-Jews and for the enslavement or expulsion of indigenous Palestinians and other non-Jews from Palestine/Israel.