{"id":99672,"date":"2022-11-12T17:05:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T15:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=99672"},"modified":"2022-11-12T16:48:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T14:48:28","slug":"16-05-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=99672","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Abhorrent\u2019: State Department Slams Ben-Gvir Appearance at Kahane Memorial Event"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>\u2018Abhorrent\u2019: State Department Slams Ben-Gvir Appearance at Kahane Memorial Event<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

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Itamar Ben-Gvir. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

In another sign of tension between the US Administration and the newly-elected Israeli government, the State Department condemned far-right Knesset member Itamar Ben-Gvir, who is slated for a cabinet post, for his appearance at a memorial ceremony for Meir Kahane, the far right parliamentarian assassinated in 1990.<\/span><\/div>\n

\u201cCelebrating the legacy of a terrorist organization is abhorrent; there is no other word for it,\u201d State Department spokesman Ned Price said Thursday. \u201cWe remain concerned, as we said before, by the legacy of Kahane Chai and the continued use of rhetoric among violent, right-wing extremists. We\u2019ve condemned incitements, we\u2019ve condemned violence and racism in all of if its forms,\u201d Price said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kahane, who was assassinated in New York in 1990, founded the Jewish Defense League and the Israeli political party Kach and was convicted in the US of a conspiracy to manufacture explosives and in Israel of plotting to blow up the Libyan embassy in Belgium. Kach and its splinter organization Kahane Chai were banned in Israel after they expressed support for Baruch Goldstein, an American-born Israeli supporter of Kahane who murdered 29 Palestinians in a West Bank mosque in 1994. Kach and Kahane Chai were jointly designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the State Department from 1997 until earlier this year. They remain on the US list of Specially Designated Global Terrorist organizations.<\/span><\/p>\n

Writing on twitter before the event, Ben-Gvir\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0that he was participating despite his differences of opinion with Kahane because he appreciated \u201cthe love of Israel that [Kahane] had and his fight for the Jews of the Soviet Union and against antisemitism.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ben-Gvir\u2019s attempt to create ideological distance between himself and Kahane at the event on the question of expelling Arabs was met with boos from the crowd. Ben-Gvir said that unlike Kahane he does not believe that all Arabs need to be deported from Israel. He has previously said that only \u201cdisloyal\u201d Arabs, including Arab members of the Knesset, need be deported<\/span><\/p>\n

Yehuda Kurtzer, President of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, an NGO which seeks to promote democratic values and equal rights in Israel, told\u00a0The Algemeiner<\/em>\u00a0that the reaction from the crowd points to the potential instability Ben-Gvir\u2019s newly-found electoral popularity.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cExtremism is much more fickle than it appears,\u201d Kurtzer said. \u201cMy sense is that especially the young vote that was attracted to [Ben-Gvir\u2019s party], that kind of anger, protest vote, at least publicly tended to talk a lot about crime in Israel, and the ways in which the police system was simply not responding to a sense of fear on the streets. [\u2026] It\u2019s a very populist move to focus on crime and law and order. It may also just reflect particular trends of this election. You have no idea whether [Ben-Gvir] and Smotrich are able to stay together, able to stay in government. Next election they may be back down to the five or six seats where they were.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The inclusion of Ben-Gvir and MK Bezalel Smotrich, both members of the Religious Zionism party, in a future Benjamin Netanyahu-led government has been a point of concern for the US. Ben-Gvir has said he will seek the Ministry of Public Safety responsible for the police, while Smotrich is seeking to be Minister of Defense.<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking to The Algemeiner last week, former US Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0that he thinks it\u2019s unlikely that the Biden Administration will directly engage with either of them. \u201cI highly doubt that the administration will work with Ben-Gvir, certainly, and likely Smotrich as well. They are advocates of racist and bigoted policies, they engage in anti-Arab incitement,\u201d Shapiro said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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