The United States on Thursday described as “disgusting” the participation of the tenor of the Israeli extreme right Itamar Ben Gvir, who could occupy an important position in the next government of Benjamin Netanyahu, in a memorial in honor of the extremist rabbi Meir Kahane.
“Celebrating the legacy of a terrorist organization is disgusting. There is no other word for it,” US State Department spokesman Ned Price said when asked about the visit during a news conference.
The United States remains “concerned, as we have said before, about the legacy of Kahane Chai and the persistent use of far-right rhetoric,” and also calls on “all parties to exercise restraint and refrain from actions that can only exacerbate tensions”. .
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Known for his anti-Arab tirades, Itamar Ben Gvir covets the Ministry of Internal Security, a key post at the forefront of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that has seen its worst violence in seven years.
Itamar Ben Gvir draws his ideology from that of extremist Rabbi Meir Kahane, whose Kach movement was banned in Israel after the 1994 murder of 29 Palestinians praying in Hebron, West Bank, by one of his followers, Baruch Goldstein.
The United States designated Kahane Chai, an offshoot of the Kach movement, as a foreign terrorist organization in 1997. Meir Kahane is an American-born former rabbi and former Israeli lawmaker who advocated for the expulsion of Arabs from Israel. He was assassinated in New York in 1990.
Source: BFM TV
