Kach and Kahane Chai: Difference between revisions

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Today, both groups are considered terrorist organisations by Israel, Canada, the European Union, Japan, and the United States. The groups are believed to have an overlapping core membership of fewer than 100 people.

[[Baruch Goldstein]], a longtime friend of founder Kahane, was heavily involved in Kach and is noted for perpetrating the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre during a ~~Purim~~ service in Hebron on February 25, 1994, killing 29 Palestinian Muslim worshippers and wounding another 125.

[[Baruch Goldstein]], a longtime friend of founder Kahane, was heavily involved in Kach and is noted for perpetrating the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre during a Ramadan service in Hebron on February 25, 1994, killing 29 Palestinian Muslim worshippers and wounding another 125.

The movement is admired by several far-right Israeli political parties today, including the [[Jewish National Front]], [[Eretz Yisrael Shelanu]], and [[Otzma Yehudit]]. It also had connections to the [[Jewish Defense League]] (Kahane's first group) as several Kahanists were also members of JDL and vice versa.

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 Today, both groups are considered terrorist organisations by Israel, Canada, the European Union, Japan, and the United States. The groups are believed to have an overlapping core membership of fewer than 100 people.
-[[Baruch Goldstein]], a longtime friend of founder Kahane, was heavily involved in Kach and is noted for perpetrating the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre during a Purim service in Hebron on February 25, 1994, killing 29 Palestinian Muslim worshippers and wounding another 125.
+[[Baruch Goldstein]], a longtime friend of founder Kahane, was heavily involved in Kach and is noted for perpetrating the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre during a Ramadan service in Hebron on February 25, 1994, killing 29 Palestinian Muslim worshippers and wounding another 125.
 The movement is admired by several far-right Israeli political parties today, including the [[Jewish National Front]], [[Eretz Yisrael Shelanu]], and [[Otzma Yehudit]]. It also had connections to the [[Jewish Defense League]] (Kahane's first group) as several Kahanists were also members of JDL and vice versa.