Ben Gvir confidant Bentzi Gopstein hands out ‘Kahane was right’ stickers at Jerusalem Day rally

By Charlie Summers

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5 June 2024, 5:36 pm

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Kahanist activist Bentzi Gopstein at annual Jerusalem Day Flag March before it sets out to the Old City on June 5, 2024. (Charlie Summers/The Times of Israel)

Kahanist activist Bentzi Gopstein, a Ben Gvir confidant, set up a stand advertising his far-right anti-intermarriage organization Lehava at a rally of thousands ahead of the annual Jerusalem Day Flag March and is passing out stickers that read: “Rabbi Kahane was right.”

Many religious youth crowd the stand to receive stickers and shirts with pictures of the late extremist rabbi Meir Kahane, whose Kach party is outlawed in Israel and is classified as a terror group.

In April, the United States sanctioned Gopstein alongside other settler activists citing his organization’s destabilizing activities in the West Bank.

Gopstein declines to be interviewed.