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He practices law in Los Angeles. Please note: This is a community event not planned by The Jewish Federation. This event has passed. Date: Friday, August 9, amam. It is a subject about which it is impossible to be neutral.

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New York City was a racial and an ethnic powder keg in the late s. He called it self-defense; critics called it vigilantism. For Kahane, when another Holocaust came around — and it would, he believed — Jews would be ready to fight back.

Kahane saw the threat to Jews not only from black militants at home in New York, but in worldwide communism — remember, this is the Cold War era — and the plight of Soviet Jewry. And by fame, we mean violence. In the early s, Kahane led the JDL in a domestic terror campaign of bombings, in addition to civil disobedience tactics sit-ins, demonstrations, harassment to put pressure on the Soviet Union to allow Jews to emigrate.

In July , Kahane stood trial for violating the Federal Fire Arms Act of , entered a guilty plea and was placed on five years federal probation. Two months later, he and his family immigrated to Israel. He put the Soviet Jewry movement on page 1.

After arriving in Israel, he soon pivots to Israeli politics, with a brief one-year hiatus in American prisons, when he returns in and violates his parole. He continues with what he knows best: anti-black racism. Soon he moves on to targeting the Israeli-Arab community and Palestinians. In August , Kahane and the JDL distribute fliers in Hebron calling for the mayor to stand trial for his alleged part in the Hebron massacre.

In Kahane and Kach win some 13, votes, or 0. In and elections, the total drops to less than 5, votes. But ominous drum roll please by , Kach receives nearly 26, votes, or 1.

First, however, there is some drama. Kahane leads an appeal to the Supreme Court, arguing that a political faction can be barred only if it poses a danger to the existence of Israel. The court rules that Kach can run. Kahane ran for Knesset and lost in and , but was finally elected in His movement continued to grow until, prior to the Knesset elections, the Kach party was banned from running by a Labor - Likud coalition. The ban was based on an amendment added to Israel's Basic Law that disqualified any candidate whose platform included "incitment to racism.

Two years later, in , Kahane was assassinated in New York City. An Egyptian-born Arab was acquitted of the murder on technicalities but in was sentenced to a long term of imprisonment for his involvement in Muslim fundamentalist terror in New York in relation to the World Trade Center bombing.

During his life, Kahane attempted to spread his message through a variety of forums. He wrote numerous books espousing his opinions; his most famous work, They Must Go , is alternately called a "magnum opus" by Kahane's followers, and compared to Mein Kampf by his detractors. He also founded a seminary in Jerusalem , called the "Yeshiva of the Jewish Idea.

Even after his death, Kahane has had a tremendous influence on the Israeli political scene. In March , the Kach party and its offshoot, Kahane Chai "Kahane Lives" , founded by Kahane's son Binyamin Zev, were officially designated as terrorist organizations by both the Israeli government and the U. State Department. The immediate cause of this designation was the February attack on the al-Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, in which Kach member Baruch Goldstein shot 34 Muslims.

Kach supported Goldstein's actions, and referred to him as a "hero. Binyamin Zev Kahane was murdered by Arab extremists in , as he traveled with his family in the West Bank.