Having first achieved notoriety with the violent Jewish Defense League, terrorizing Soviet emissaries to protest the persecution of Jews in the USSR, the Brooklyn-born Kahane emigrated to Israel in 1971 and immediately launched his political career. He called his movement Kach, or “this way,” an allusion to the famous slogan used by the Irgun, the pre-state paramilitary group whose flag featured a fist holding a rifle juxtaposed over a map of greater Israel, with the slogan Rak Kach, “only this way.”
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