16. Oddly enough, the New Republic has been haven to another former Kahanist, Yossi Klein Halevi.
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17. To go from Meir Kahane to Martin Peretz is progress. Up to a point.
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18. In his analysis of Kahanism, Wieseltier makes interesting point that JDL was both anti-black & envious of blacks
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19. As per Wieseltier, JDL feared the Black Panthers while also modeling themselves after them.
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20. Fear/envy of Black Panthers speaks to way Kahanism was a very American phenomenon, the 1960s of the Jewish right.
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21. In the Kahanist imagination, blacks and Arabs occupy (le mot juste) the same spot: the feared ethnic rival to be displaced.
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22. The conflation of blacks & Palestinians extends outside Kahanist circles: Rhetoric of Israel as living in "dangerous neighborhood"
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23. Wieseltier's Kahanist adventure points to moment in which American racism fused with far right Israel nationalism
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24. Kahane gave American Jews permission to see themselves as victims of oppressive blacks and Arabs. That's a legacy far outside JDL.
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@mirabarhillel Fair point.
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