RAMALLAH, 26 Oct (JMCC) - A thousand supporters gathered at the Ramada
Renaissance Hotel in
Jerusalem tonight to celebrate the legacy of Rabbi
Meir Kahane, an ultra-nationalist assassinated 20 years ago. The
American-born Kahane advocated the violent annexation of the
West Bank
and
Gaza, founded the racist and banned Kach party, and called for
Israel to adopt Jewish over democratic law.
Yesterday, many buildings in
Yaffa and
Nazareth Illit was vandalized with the slogan, Kahane was right.
“You
can see a true awakening to Rav Kahane, because every year it’s
growing, every year more and more people are joining us,” right-wing
activist Baruch Marzel told The Jerusalem Post
as he hurriedly tried to organize more chairs for hundreds of people
standing outside. “There are those who thought that with each passing
year it would be weaker, but that’s a lie.”
“We’ve gone mainstream,” event organizer and prominent right-wing
activist Itamar Ben-Gvir told the Post. “You can even see this in the
Knesset, Kadima and even the Labor party are adopting the beliefs of
Kahane. People used to be against Rav Kahane in the Knesset, treating
him the same way they’re treating Hanin Zoabi, saying he was
disgusting, he’s dangerous. And today they understand that all those
things he said, he was right.”
Read more at
TheJerusalem Post...