Kahanism

He called himself a Jabotinsky Zionist, and the texts that, that JDL, the Jewish Defense League, was promoting in those years were classic revisionist, Zionist, right-wing texts.

And, um, it was only later when Kahane moves to Israel that he founds a whole new stream of right-wing, uh, ideology, which we today call Kahanism, but that's-- maybe we'll get to that a little, little later.

But the, the significance of the Jewish Defense League emerging in nineteen sixty-eight was that you had a convergence of, of once in a lifetime historic events.

So first of all, there was the Six Day War, nineteen sixty-seven, which had an enormous galvanizing impact on the whole Jewish world.

It's he checks all the boxes.

You know, he's got he's a Kahanist.

If anybody knows about Meir Kahane, who believed that all non-Jews should submit to being slaves.

It's so I laugh about it because it's.

It's like a really stupid loophole.

And the reason that the law was passed in 1994 was because of the Kahanist party, because of Meir Kahane, who all of these guys are like disciples of.

He was a Jewish terrorist who was assassinated in New York City after serving in the Knesset.

He was a total, total psychopath.

I am not a xenophobe.

I am not one of these Kahanist lunatics like Ben-Gvir and Smotrich.

I'm sure I'm going to lose a lot of friends by saying that.

I really don't care.

They voted for the religious Zionist party.

They voted for the most extreme Kahanist party.

So that's the people that we're saying are, oh, they're not so extreme.

And the second more salient point is that it doesn't matter.

In fact, it sounded more like a wish aimed at setting fire to the area in an attempt to push the Palestinians into turning their guns around and in the hope of turning around unfavorable opinion polls.

The scenario of turned guns is all the government of Kahanists and settlers wish for.

It will allow them to collapse the Palestinian Authority, to take over more territory, and to deepen the ethnic cleansing in the West Bank.

It was reported on Monday that the IDF had warned Netanyahu and the Security Cabinet that there is a growing risk that the Palestinians were organized to shoot back at settlers.

But if traditionally he always preferred to have a center party come into his coalition so that he could govern from the middle of his coalition, now he's relied very much on the far right and has been beholden to them, and even just these appointments of these two individuals to very, very influential roles, especially Smotrich, w- was a shocking thing in 2022, and I think is a sign of just how beholden, beholden he is to them.

And moreover, the Likud Party today is not that far from even the Kahanist views of Ben-Gvir and others.

Uh, we've really seen an, uh, a movement to the extreme, certainly by the Likud.

Uh, so they are very powerful, very important.

But really, when you strip down, like, when you get rid of the theatrics and see through the noise, it's just one faction of, like, more, like, plutocratic Jewish supremacists versus, like, say, like, the Judeo-liberal, like, Judeo-left, and that's how hollowed out the political process has become.

And it's even getting wackier, too, now that you have, like, Chabad and other really grug, tyrant Kahanist-type Jews come into the mix that were back then seen as marginal, but now have ascended in elements of Jewry.

And that's the thing, too, that, like, the original type of, like, liberal Jews, neoconservative types, they walked, huh, so that the Kahanists and Chabadnik types could fly.

And that's what happens when your country just gets hollowed out at, by organized Jewry, and it's allowed to occupy the highest echelons of society, the commanding heights of the economy, the media, the political process.