TERRORISM: SYMPATHIZERS OF KAHANE CHAI AND KACH REBUILD WWW PRESENCE CALL FOR ASSASSINATION OF YASIR ARAFAT

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005362820
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• Document Creation Date: June 23, 2015
• Document Release Date: June 11, 2009
• Case Number: F-2009-00185
• Publication Date: May 19, 2003

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Terrorism: Sympathizers of Kahane Chai and Kach Rebuild WWW
Presence, Call for Assassination of Yasir Arafat
Two websires sympathetic to'the.lewish Kach Movement (Kahane Chal), a movement which, is
banned in Israel and classified as a terrorist organization by the US Governmzent, have
appeared on the World Wide Web. The current websires are similar in content and design to
Kach movement websites that were disrupted in early 2001 after the FBI seized their assets.
The new websites are soliciting funds and calling for the assassination of Palestinian leader
Yasir Arafat.
The two websites are "Kahane.org" located at and the "New Kach
Movement" located at . The two sites do not explicitly claim to be
related to the banned organizations "Kach" and "Kahane Chai," but an analysis of their
content, design, and hyperlinks indicates that there is little difference between the agendas
and the websites of the banned organizations and the new ones.
Content at Kahane.org in late 2001 is virtually identical to that which appeared at
Kahane.org in late 2000.
? The HTML source page--produced by the webmaster of the current Kahane.org website--
states that Kahane.org is the "official Kahane website."
? Clicking on the menu item "Kahane Chai" at the New Kach website took the browser to
Kahane.org.
? Clicking on the menu item "Kach in Action" at the New Kach website took the browser to
news articles on Kach, not to articles on New Kach, and clicking on "Kach Party and
Policies" at New Kach took the browser to an article on the Kach Party and policies not to
an article on the. Now Kach Party and policies.
Like the previous websites, the current sites are vehemently anti-Muslim and anti-Arab. They
espouse the same views of Rabbi Meir Kahane, the founder of Kach and the Jewish Defense
Lcaguc, that were found. at the websites in late 2000.
? During the week of 3 December 2001, the New Kach website featured a pulsating banner
which read "Ariel Sharon, kill Yasser Arafat now."
? The following week; the Kahane.org website carried a "quizier" (an online poll) which
asked rhetorically whether Israel should "only kill Arafats henchmen" or "Arafat himself."
In another indication of theJink between the old and the refurbished websites, Kahane.org
features an e-petition to have the US Government lift the ban against Kahane Chai and Kach.
? The first paragraph of the petition reads, "We the undersigned, demand an immediate
cessation of the unfair and capricious designation of the Kahane Chai Jewish activist and
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educational group as a terrorist organization, and the unconstitutional seizure of the
groups' assets in the US." Web visitors are encouraged to email their congressmen to scck
redress.
? The Philadelphia chapter of New Kach features a petition to lift the USG ban against Kach
and Kahane Chai.
Like the earlier websites, Kahane.org solicits donations and markets Kahanc books, audio and
videotapes, T-shirts and stickers in order to raise funds. The New Kach websitc does not
specifically seek financial contributions--only the donation of secure web servers and
volunteer web skills for its Internet operations.
The new websites link to a much larger network of websites and sympathizers. Kahane.org
and New Kach hyperlink to affiliated New Kach chapters and websites located in several parts
of the world.
US-based New Kach chapters and websites are located in Philadelphia, Milwaukee, New
York, Chicago, and 'Teaneck, New Jersey. Overseas chapters of New Kach are located in
Capetown, South Africa, in Israel, and Montreal, Canada.
* The Canadian website, at , calls itself Now Kach-
Jewish Defense Force. During the week of 10 December 2001, a banner at the Canadian
website welcomed the "JDL" (Jewish Defense League) to Montreal:
In addition to their direct affiliates, both Kahane.org and Now Kach feature hypcrlitsks
described by them as "Kahanist." These web links include the Jewish Dcfense League (JDL);
a website dedicated to convicted spy Jonathan Pollard; a website dedicated to Baruch
Goldstein, the perpetrator of the Ibrahitni Mosque Massacre of February 1994; as well as to
webpages dedicated to Meir Kahane and his We son, Binyamin Kahane.
Kahane.org is registered to Yeshivat HaRav Meir, 1090 Coney Island Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
11230. The billing contact is listed as Michael Guzovsky, Hatikva Jewish Identity Center,
1090 Coney Island Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11230, tel. [phone].
The main New Kach website is registered to NKM, 6212 DeVimy, Montreal, Canada. The
administrative contact is listed as Efraim Hershkovits, who is also the sponsor of the Montreal
chapter of New K.aclt-Jewish Defense Force.
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