Appeals Court Upholds Terrorist Label for a Jewish Group

[oberliner]

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 — A militant Jewish group and two of its affiliates were properly designated as terrorist organizations by the State Department, a federal appeals court here ruled Tuesday.

The group, Kahane Chai, is a spinoff of the radical Kach movement of Rabbi Meir Kahane, an Israeli politician who was assassinated in New York in 1990. Kahane Chai, which means Kahane Lives, advocates the restoration of the biblical state of Israel and the expulsion of Arabs from Israel.

The Israeli cabinet declared Kahane Chai a terrorist organization in 1994, and the United States State Department followed suit in 1997. In 2003, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell reaffirmed the designation and added that 20 entities were aliases of Kahane Chai, including a Web site, Kahane.org.

Mr. Powell found that the group had threatened to carry out assassinations, notably of Ariel Sharon when he was prime minister of Israel, used “explosives or firearms” to endanger people and property, and solicited money and members for terrorist organizations.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/18/us/18kahane.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[Ian David]

1. The Kahane Chai guys are a bunch of dangerous nutballs.

The guy was like a Jewish version of Sun Myung Moon.

Good riddance to that bastard.