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Bank was an obstacle to a peaceful settle-
ment, reversed his position during his re-
cent reelection campaign. Following his
trip with Jacobs, Helms, in an article for
the Heritage Foundation's Policy Review,
called the West Bank: "Judea and
Samaria . . . the very land the Bible is all
about . . . the very territory which the U.S.
State Department wants the Jews to
leave.")
So extreme is Jacobs that he has criti-
cized Vancier for not being militant
enough. Last December, a handful of
Jacobs' followers tried to take over the
JDL's chapters on Staten Island and in
Flatbush, but were forcibly thrown out, ac-
cording to Vancier. "Jacobs says the JDL
should be beating up American Arabs and
left-wing Jews, especially journalists, who
support the PLO," Vancier told me. "He
claims this is what Meir told him should
be the JDL's priority.
"I don't say the JDL doesn't do such
things, but we don't do things that could
be counter-productive and undermine the
organization, like attacking journalists.

Guide for the Perplexed

The JDL's militant rhetoric and fits of
terror have fed Jewish anxieties arising
from the anti-Semitic declarations of the
Rev. Louis Farrakhan, the rise of white
supremacist groups in the Midwest, and
the upsurge of Palestinian terrorism.
Whether or not Kahane is actually or-
chestrating Jewish extremist violence in
the United States, he is certainly capitaliz-
ing on it.
Indeed, Kahane has the dubioui gift of
turning Jewish fears into dollars. Last
year, Kahane reportedly collected more
than $300,000 for his Israeli movement
from American Jews during four fundrais-
ing tours here. (According to a Justice
Department spokesman, Kahane has
never registered as a foreign agent - an
apparent violation of Federal law.)
"Kach spends about $10,000 a week in
Israel," says Shannon Taylor, an attorney
who is a leader of Kach International,
Kahane's principal fundraising arm in
America. "He's opening offices all over the
country [Israel]. Kahane can never get
enough money."
Kahane has been very careful not to
disclose the names of his contributors to
reporters. "Those who hold positions in
large organizationswould be castigated" if
it were known they supported Kahane,
says Gene Blum, a Baltimore insurance
company executive and a contributor to
Kahane. For this reason, the press is
routinely barred from Kahane's fundrais-
ing speeches.
"The rabbi's supporters don't want to
be photographed," Fern Rosenblatt told a
Boston Jewish Advocate reporter outside
a recent $50-a-plate fundraiser for Kahane
held at the Boston Plaza Hotel, where
more than $20,000 was reportedly col-

lected from the floor. "They prefer to sup-
port him surreptitiously. They feel their
status might be compromised if they are
found to support Kahane." Rosenblatt
also told the Advocate reporter that
the JDL would "do everything we can to
protect the anonymity of Kahane's sup-
porters." "Please leave my business out of
it," begged Steven Denrich, owner of Valu
Food, a small supermarket chain in Balti-
more, who, when confronted, conceded he
has been a long-time Kahane supporter.
But Kahane's days of collecting tax-free
dollars in America may soon be over. The
State Department stripped him of his U.S.
citizenship last October, arguing that the
rabbi had shifted his loyalty to Israel upon
becoming a member of the Knesset. If
Kahane loses his appeal, he could be
denied a U.S. visa either as a convicted
felon or under the McCarran-Walter Act,
which makes affiliation with terrorist
organizations grounds for denying entry
to this country. (Kahane already is barred
from Canada, Belgium, France, and Great
Britain). If Kahane can't come to America
to stoke Jewish anxieties, his ability to col-
lect money would be crippled — and if his
U.S. dollars dried up, so might his support
in Israel.
Kahane's permanent absence from the
American scene would also be a mortal
blow to many in the JDL, and to other
Jewish extremists who practice his violent
teachings. Though Kahane steped down as
head of the JDL last August, Vancier told
me "he's still the spiritual leader of the
JDL and we are in very close touch with
him. We support him very strongly, and
he guides us in many things we do."
For 18 years Rabbi Kahane has gathered
around him perplexed young Jews who
have embraced his violent credo as a way
to solve Jewish problems. "Kahane has
established a tradition of violent vigilan-
tism in America and Israel," says Dr.
Ehud Sprinzak, an expert on Israeli ex-
tremist groups at Hebrew University. "In
the view of some, his Knesset victory has
legitimized the use of violence and has pro-
ved that he is unstoppable. Unfortunate-
ly, many people in Israel and America
have responded to it."
One JDL member from Brooklyn who
served two years in a federal prison on
bomb-making charges, puts it this way:
"If you're a Jewish activist and read a
story in The New York Times about the
success of Kahane and the underground in
Israel, you say 'fine, let's do it here too.'
There's not much difference between a Jew
from Kiryat Arba driving into Hebron to
blow up an Arab and a Jew from Brooklyn
driving to Long Island to blow up a Nazi.
The Jewish underground in Israel has set
the stage for the Jewish underground in
America." 0

Reprinted with permission of the Village Voice and the
author, copyright 1986.

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