מאיר דוד כהנא

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August1,1932–November5,1990-28Tammuz5692-17MarChesvan5751

Rabbi Kahane ZT"L HY"D ( founder of Jewish Defense League and Kach ) adhered to the belief that there is no such thing as a Palestinian people; that in fact the people who call themselves Palestinian are a mixture of disparate and unrelated Arab clans with no claim to ethnic identity, and that all native Palestinian Arabs seek the destruction of all Israelis. Thus Kahane proposed the forcible deportation of all Arabs from all lands controlled by the Israeli government. In his view, evicting all Palestinians , was the only acceptable solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict which we can now accept as axiomatic.

As a teenager he became an admirer of Zeev Jabotinsky, a frequent guest in Kahane's home. He personally led protests against Ernest Bevin who opposed the foundation of Israel on the grounds that Britain should side with the Arab Muslims aspirations for an independent state. Kahane also organized and launched public demonstrations in the US against the Soviet Union's policy of persecuting Zionist activists and curbing Jewish emigration to Israel. He was a central activist in the "Free Soviet (Russian) Jewry" movement and is widely credited with the release of the Russian refuseniks to Israel.

While concluding a speech in New York, Kahane was murdered by El Sayyid Nosair, a member of an terrorist cell operating in New York . According to prosecutors, a man named Wadih el Hage purchased the .38 caliber gun used by Nosair. El-Hage was told by a man named Mahmud Abouhalima to buy the gun. Nosair was acquitted of murder because no witness actually saw him pull the trigger, but he was convicted of gun charges.

Publications
(Partially under pseudonym Michael King; with Joseph Churba)

The Jewish Stake in Vietnam, Crossroads, 1967.
Never Again! A Program for Survival, Pyramid Books, 1972.
Time to Go Home, Nash, 1972.
Letters from Prison, Jewish Identity Center, 1974.
Our Challenge: The Chosen Land, Chilton, 1974.
The Story of the JDL Chilton,1975. Why Be Jewish? Intermarriage, Assimilation, and Alienation, Stein & Day, 1977.
Listen, Vanessa, I Am a Zionist, Institute of the Authentic Jewish Idea, 1978.
They Must Go, Grosset & Dunlop, 1981.
Uncomfortable Questions for Comfortable Jews, Lyle Stuart, 1987.
Israel: Revolution or Referendum, Barricade Books (Secaucus, NJ), 1990.
Or ha-ra'yon, title in English is The Jewish Idea, n.p. (Jerusalem), 1992, translated from the Hebrew by Raphael Blumberg, Institute for Publication of the Writings of Rabbi Meir Kahane (Jerusalem), 1996.
On Jews and Judaism: Selected Articles 1961-1990, Institute for Publication of the Writings of Rabbi Meir Kahane (Jerusalem), 1993.
Perush ha-Makabi: al Sefer Devarim, Institute for Publication of the Writings of Rabbi Meir Kahane (Jerusalem), 1993, 1995.
Perush ha-Makabi: al Sefer Shemu'el u-Nevi'im rishonim, Institute for Publication of the Writings of Rabbi Meir Kahane (Jerusalem), 1994.
Listen World, Listen Jew, 3rd edition, Institute for the Publication of the Writings of Rabbi Meir Kahane (Jerusalem), 1995.
Kohen ve-navi: osef ma'amarim, ha-Makhon le-hotsa'at kitve ha-Rav Kahana (Jerusalem), 2000.

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