NCJ Number
123332
Journal
Stanford Journal of International Law Volume: 24 Issue: 1 Dated: (Fall 1987) Pages: 55-84
Date Published
1987
Length
30 pages
Annotation
This article examines the process and the content of Israel's criminalization of racial incitement, primarily against Arabs in Israel.
Abstract
Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the American Jewish Defense League, emigrated to Israel in 1971 and has focused and aggravated anti-Arab sentiments among his followers in Israel. He has established a political-racial movement, named Kach, which advocates the expulsion of Arabs from Israel and the re-establishment of a theocracy to be run solely under Jewish religious law. Kahane's popular support has been sufficient for him to be elected to the Knesset in 1984 as a one-man party. This article describes the political circumstances under which the Knesset launched a campaign against racial incitement that grew from measures aimed directly at Kahane into a general confrontation with racial incitement through criminal law. It then analyzes the scope and effectiveness of the law against racial incitement within the context of current Israeli criminal law. The article concludes with an examination of the contribution of the criminalization of racial incitement to the general struggle against racism. 122 footnotes.