• Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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    31 month ago

    …was known to have a portrait in his living room of Israeli-American mass murderer and Jewish extremist Baruch Goldstein, who massacred 29 Palestinian Muslim worshipers and wounded 125 others in Hebron, in the 1994 Cave of the Patriarchs massacre. He removed the portrait after he entered politics.[4] He was also previously convicted of supporting Kach, classified by Israel as a terrorist group, which espoused Kahanism, an anti-Arab and religious Zionist ideology.

    yeah benny boy is a great guy

    • CTHlurker [he/him]
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      31 month ago

      Didn’t one of the Kahanist litterally murder the israeli president who negotiated the Oslo Accords? Seems weird to allow that group to continue existing, just from a self-preservation standpoint.

      • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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        31 month ago

        In the 1990s, he was active in protests against the Oslo Accords. In 1995, Ben-Gvir came to public attention for the first time, when he appeared on television brandishing a Cadillac hood ornament that had been stolen from Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s car, and declared: “We got to his car, and we’ll get to him too.” Several weeks later, Rabin was assassinated by right-wing extremist Yigal Amir.

        yup