Was Meir Kahane an Anomaly? Six Phases of Jewish Militancy in the Land of Israel with Dr. Shaul Magid
Thursday, June 22 

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There are usually one of two explanations proffered to understand Meir Kahane, the militant American rabbi who founded the Jewish Defense League in America in 1968 and the KACH party in Israel in 1971. The first is that he was an anomaly, a product of the American race and culture wars of the 1960s that he tried to translate for an Israeli audience. The second is that his militarism was the product of a dangerous amalgam of religion and politics. In this presentation, Dr. Magid will argue neither is true. Rather, he claims Kahane is a particular instantiation of a history of Jewish militancy in Mandate Palestine and then Israel. 

Join Dr. Magid as he exhibits this history in six distinct but also overlapping phases from the 1920s until the present. 

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