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Further Reading Kahane’s funeral was marked by violence; a
mob of his supporters stabbed an Arab gas station
Contenta, Sandro. “Israel Angry Over Extremist Jews on
American List.” Toronto Star, November. attendant and stoned camera crews, shouting “Kill
Goodstein, Laurie. “Rebirth of the ‘Tough Jew’: The Ideas the Arabs” and “Kill the Media.” Nosair was tried
of Racist Rabbi Meir Kahane Are Flourishing in and found not guilty on the murder charge but was
New York.” Toronto Star, March 11, 1994. later convicted on weapons charges. When the not
Lueck, Thomas J. “Group Grew Out of Militancy.” New York guilty verdict was read, teenage followers of Kahane
Times, December 13, 2001. shouted “Death to Nosair!” and clashed with Nosair’s
Murphy, Deane. “Terror Label No Hindrance to Anti-Arab supporters in the hallways of the court.
Jewish Group.” New York Times, December 19, 2000. In Kahane’s absence, the Kach Party withered.
Sprinzak, Ehud. The Ascendance of the Israeli Radical However, Kahane’s son Binyamin founded the Kahane
Right. London: Oxford University Press, 1991. Chai, or “Kahane Lives” group to pursue his father’s
U.S. State Department. “Appendix B: Background goals. Kahane’s teachings remain influential among
Information on Terrorist Groups.” Patterns of Global right-wing Jewish settlers in the West Bank. After
Terrorism—2000. Released by the Office of the
Coordinator for Counterterrorism, April 30, 2001. http:// Kahane disciple Dr. Baruch Goldstein massacred 29
www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/pgtrpt/2000/2450.htm. praying Muslims in a Hebron mosque in February
1994, the Israeli government voted to outlaw Kach,
Kahane Chai, and any organization following Kahane’s
teachings under Israel’s 1948 Terrorism Law. The ban
KAHANE, MEIR (1932–1990) also criminalized giving financial or verbal support to

these groups. In December 2000, Binyamin Kahane
Brooklyn-born Rabbi Meir Kahane was a radical was also assassinated, shot by Palestinian gunmen in a
ideologue and founder of Kach, the militant national- drive-by shooting.
ist and outlawed political party in Israel that advocates See also BARUCH GOLDSTEIN; JEWISH TERRORIST GROUPS IN
violence against Arabs. Kahane was assassinated on THE UNITED STATES; KAHANE CHAI
November 5, 1990, in New York City.
Kahane developed and disseminated his beliefs that Further Reading
Greater Israel, including the occupied West Bank, was
Goodstein, Laurie. “Rebirth of the ‘Tough Jew’: The Ideas
given to the Jews by God and that all Arabs should be
of Racist Rabbi Meir Kahane Are Flourishing in
expelled from the land. In the 1960s, Kahane formed
New York.” Toronto Star, March 11, 1994.
the anti-Arab Jewish Defense League (JDL), a fore- Haberman, Clyde. “Israel Votes Ban on Jewish Groups
runner of Kach and Kahane Chai. He used the slogan Linked to Kahane.” New York Times, March 14, 1994, A1.
“Never Again!” in reference to the Holocaust, when Miller, Marjorie. “Jewish Extremists Commemorate
recruiting for the league. Kahane moved to Israel in Kahane.” Los Angeles Times, November 13, 1995.
1971 and founded the Kach Party. Kach means “thus” Rempel, William C. “NY Trial in Rabbi’s Death Planted
or “this is the way” in Hebrew. Explosive Seed.” Los Angeles Times, July 4, 1993.
After he won a seat in the Israeli Parliament in Sprinzak, Ehud. The Ascendance of the Israeli Radical Right.
1984, Kahane is said to have submitted a bill to Israel’s London: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Parliament to completely separate Jews and non-Jews
in Israel. The government of Israel declared the Kach
Party racist and ineligible to field candidates in 1988. KAMAL, ALI HASSAN ABU. See EMPIRE
Kahane was assassinated on the evening of STATE BUILDING SHOOTING.
November 5, 1990. In a meeting room of the Marriott
Halloran House Hotel in midtown Manhattan, Kahane
gave a speech calling for the forcible expulsion of native KASI, MIR AIMAL (1964– )
Palestinians from Israel to an audience of about 100; he
aka Mir Kansi
was answering questions when a man approached and
shot him in the neck with a handgun. Kahane was mor-
tally wounded; the gunman fled the scene. Egyptian- In 1993, Mir Aimal Kasi, a Pakistani national,
born El Sayyid Nosair was arrested a few blocks away. murdered two CIA employees outside the CIA