Party ‘a disgrace’
NZPA-Reuter Tel Aviv The Israeli President, Chaim Herzog, said yesterday that the anti-Arab Kach Party led by Rabbi Meir Kahane had brought disgrace on Israel and endangered Jewish communities in the Arab world.
Speaking to students in the Tel Aviv suburb of Petah Tikva, he compared Kach’s campaign to expel Arabs from Israel with antiJewish legislation in Nazi Germany. “I think it is a disgrace to the Jewish people and to the people of Israel—and it looks that way to the whole world—that a man could emerge in the Jewish State with a programme that is very similar to the (Nazi) Nuremberg Laws,” Mr Herzog said. If the Kach programme was carried out, Arab States might respond by pronouncing a death sentence on 100,000 Jews living in Muslim countries, he said.
Recent opinion polls show Kach would win about 10 seats in fresh elections and is now the third most popular party in Israel.
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Press, 10 September 1985, Page 6
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