🧵in 1994, Dr Baruch Goldstein, a settler & follower of Rabbi Meir Kahane, burst into the Ibrahimi mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron. Goldstein, opened fire, massacring 29 Palestinian Muslims in worship & injuring 125 before being wrestled to the ground & killed.
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Kahanism, from Meir Kahane’s teachings, is a Jewish supremacist ideology promoting violence & terrorism against Palestinians to secure a Jewish ethno-state.
Kahanism (Israel’s Kach party) is alive & flourishing today & represented by members of Knesset
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Kahanism (Israel’s Kach party) is alive & flourishing today & represented by members of Knesset
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In 2016, Naftali Bennett, who is likely to replace Netanyahu this month as prime minister of Israel said: “We [Jews] must give our lives" for the cause of annexing the West Bank to Israel.
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In the US (where both Kahane & Goldstein were from) Kahanism founded the Jewish Defense League, classified by FBI as a "terrorist group." The JDL carried out many bombings & violent attacks, including firebombing @jjz’s office in DC, Their violence continues today
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IT MATTERS that false “blood libel” accusations r being made by @FoxmanAbraham & supported by journalists
IT MATTERS that @WSJ & prominent Jewish-Am establishment figures @mdubowitz @JGreenblattADL recently shared Kahanist/JDL images in a supposed fight against antisemitism
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IT MATTERS that @WSJ & prominent Jewish-Am establishment figures @mdubowitz @JGreenblattADL recently shared Kahanist/JDL images in a supposed fight against antisemitism
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