extremist right-wing movement founded by the Rabbi Meir Kahane and ruled illegal by the Knesset because of its racist policies
Kach (, an acronym for Kahane LaKnesset (, lit. Kahane to the Knesset)) was a far right
political party in
Israel. Founded by Rabbi
Meir Kahane in the early 1970s, and following his
Kahanist ideology, the party entered the Knesset in 1984 after several electoral failures. However, it was barred from participating in the
next election in 1988 under the revised
Knesset Elections Law banning parties that incited racism. After Kahane's assassination in 1990 the party split, with Kahane Chai (, lit. Kahane Lives) breaking away from the main Kach faction. The party was also barred from standing in the
1992 election, and both organisations were banned outright in 1994. Today both groups are considered
terrorist organisations by
Israel,
Canada, the
European Union and the
United States.
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