ISRAEL: JERUSALEM: KNESSET MEMBER MEIR KAHANE DEFENDS ANTI-ARAB POLICY.

Record ID: 399034

  • Title: ISRAEL: JERUSALEM: KNESSET MEMBER MEIR KAHANE DEFENDS ANTI-ARAB POLICY.
  • Date: 23rd November 1984
  • Summary: 1. GV Flag TILT DOWN TO Kahane on telephone. (2 SHOTS) 0.10 2. SCU & SVs Newsmen listening as Kahane speaks. (English SOT) (3 SHOTS) 1.47 TRANSCRIPT: KAHANE: (SEQ 2)"The police asked me whether I had made any statements in support of what they call Jewish terror. Of course, I don't recognise that term. There's no such thing as Jewish terror; there is Jewish vengean
  • Embargoed: 8th December 1984 12:00
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  • Location: JERUSALEM
  • Country: Israel
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVAF1V9MXPCGXC8Q9RLHE1UUA35Z
  • Story Text: JERUSALEM

    Israeli Knesset (Parliament) Member Meir Kahane was interviewed by police on November 21 about his publicly declared support for anti-Arab terrorism. Speaking to reporters hours after his interrogation at the Jerusalem offices of his Kach party, the extremist rabbi, born Michael King in Brooklyn, New York, defended his violently anti-Arab views as "common sense". Kahane, whose militant political postures have landed him in Israeli prisons on several occasions, maintains that all Arabs espousing the concept of a Palestinian national homeland, and those not willing to accept non-citizen status under Israeli governments should be forcibly deported to other Arab states. On November 21, thousands of Israeli youths, representing a broad spectrum of political groups from nationalists to the Jewish-Arab Communist Party, staged a massive demonstration in Tel Aviv to protest Kahane's support of Jewish extremists and racist incitement. It was announced in Jerusalem earlier this month that Prime Minister Shimon Peres' coalition government was formulating a law banning racist incitement, as well as studying measures to lift Kahanes' parliamentary immunity from prosecution.

    <strong>Source: REUTERS - TALI GODER</strong>
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