In a video shared by the militant pro-Israel group Betar US, actor Michael Rapaport said, “Kahane was always right.”
In 1968, Kahane founded the Jewish Defense League (JDL) in New York City. Several JDL members, including Kahane, were subsequently convicted of acts related to domestic terrorism, including leading the attack on the Soviet United Nations mission in 1975. Later that same year, Kahane was convicted of conspiring to kidnap a Soviet diplomat, bomb the Iraqi embassy in Washington, and ship arms abroad from Israel. However, he served most of it in a hotel, with frequent unsupervised absences, because of a concession over the provision of kosher food.
Kahane proposed laws to forbid sexual relations between Jews and non-Jews, separate Jewish and Arab neighborhoods, and went so far as to demand that non-Jews in Israel either become slaves or face deportation.
The Jewish Defense League's inception was part of the white backlash surrounding the New York City teachers' union strikes of 1968. The strikes brought to the surface racial tension between the predominantly Jewish teachers union, and black residents who were seeking greater control over their neighborhood schools. Kahane, who then wrote for The Jewish Weekly, an Orthodox periodical, flooded the tabloids with stories of blacks and Puerto Ricans terrorizing Jews in Manhattan. He dispatched JDL units to "patrol" predominantly Jewish areas, which ultimately led to an ethnic polarization of neighborhoods. Their terrorism became so severe that President Richard Nixon feared JDL activity would threaten the Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty (SALT) II negotiations.
According to newly released FBI documents, the JDL, the Meir Kahane-founded group that supports the use of violent defense of Jewish interests, would make death threats to numerous rap stars and then provide them with “protection” in exchange for fees in the neighborhood of $50,000. Among the rap stars allegedly targeted were Shakur, who was murdered in 1996 in a case that remains unsolved, and Eazy-E, who died of AIDS-related complications in 1995.
She probably shares his views. Makes me wonder why we don't press these people enough. Her being black makes her silence all the more egregious.Will his wife step up or let this clown continue to speak this way?