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July 2000

KACH AND KAHANE CHAI -- Israel

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Internet Resource

Kach and Kahane Chai.
Available at: http://www.ict.org.il/
Site maintained by the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism. Under the 'International Terrorism' section choose 'Terrorist Organization Profiles' then 'Kach and Kahane Chai'. Offers sections titled: History, Terrorist Activity, Articles, Updates, and Attacks.

** For additional internet sites, refer to the General Internet Resources section at the beginning of this bibliography.

Books

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael . The Boundaries of Liberty and Tolerance: The Struggle Against Kahanism in Israel. Gainesville, FL, University Press of Florida, 1994. 329 p.
Book call no.: 323.443 C678b

Encyclopedia of World Terrorism, edited by Martha Crenshaw and John Pimlott. Armonk, NY, M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1997. 3 vols.
Jewish Terrorism in the 1990s, pp 354-357.
Book call no.: R 303.625 E56 Vol.2

Jane's Sentinel: Eastern Mediterranean. Alexandria, VA, Jane's Information Group, 2000. 627 p.
Israel: Threat Internal, pp 226-228.
Book call no.: R 956 J33 2000 Feb-Jul

Jane's World Insurgency and Terrorism. Alexandria, VA, Jane's Information Group, 1999. 520 p.
Kach Party, Kahane Chai and Revenge Underground, pp 253-254.
Book call no.: R 364.1 J33 1999 May-August

Juergensmeyer, Mark. Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence. Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2000. 316 p.
Meir Kahane and Jewish Justifications for Violence, pp 52-59.
See index under 'Kach Party' and "Kahane, Rabbi Meir' for additional references.
Book call no.: 291.178331 J93t

Kahane, Meir. Israel: Revolution or Referendum. Secaucus, NJ, Barricade Books, 1990. 185 p.
Book call no.: 956.94 K12i

Patterns of Global Terrorism: 1999. Washington, U.S. Dept of State, April 2000. 107 p.
Kach and Kahane Chai, pp 77-78.
Also available online at: http://www.state.gov/www/global/terrorism/1999report/1999index.html
Book call no.: R 303.625 P316 1999

Sprinzak, Ehud. The Ascendance of Israel's Radical Right. New York, Oxford University Press, 1991. 392 p.
Book call no.: 320.54095694 S758a

Sprinzak, Ehud. Brother Against Brother: Violence and Extremism in Israeli Politics from Altalena to the Rabin Assassination. New York, Free Press, 1999. 366 p.
See index under "Kach Movement" and "Kahane, Meir" for specific references.
Book call no.: 303.609594 S769b

Document

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Terrorism: Middle Eastern Groups and State Sponsors, 1999, by Kenneth Katzman. Washington, GPO, August 1999. 37 p.
Kach and Kahane Chai, p 19.
Doc. call no.: M-U 42953-1 no.99-RL30277

Periodicals

Baumel, Judith Tydor. Kahane in America: An Exercise in Right-Wing Urban Terror. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 22:311-329 October-December 1999.

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael. Combating Right-Wing Political Extremism in Israel: Critical Appraisal. Terrorism and Political Violence 9:82-105 Winter 1997.
Examines Israel's decision to outlaw Kach and Kahane Chai.

Doron, Gideon. Israel and the Rabin Assassination. Current History 95:6-9 January 1996.

Greenberg, Joel. Israeli Jew from Outlawed Group Is Convicted of Insulting Islam. New York Times, p A7, col 1, December 31, 1997.

Sandler, Shmuel. Religious Zionism and the State: Political Accommodation and Religious Radicalism in Israel. Terrorism and Political Violence 8:133-154 Summer 1996.

Sprinzak, Ehud. Extremism and Violence in Israel: The Crisis of Messianic Politics. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 555:114-126 January 1998.

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