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Senior Religious Zionism official shares video of extremist rabbi Kahane
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Uri Bank, a senior official with the Religious Zionism party, shares a video of the late rabbi Meir Kahane, the founder of the now-banned Kach party, which advocated for the expulsion of Palestinians and Arab Israelis.
In the clip posted to Facebook by Bank, the manager of the nationalist party’s Knesset faction, Kahane can be heard briefly objecting to an unseen questioner who asserts that he is oppressing the Palestinians the same way as the Nazis treated the Jews during World War II.
Kahane’s Kach party was banned in 1985 under a law that disqualifies those found to be inciting racism from running for office. It was also listed as a foreign terrorist organization by the US State Department, a designation only lifted in 2022.
Asked if he is endorsing Kahane or his ideology or if his post represents the position of his party, Bank tells The Times of Israel, “No and no.”
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