Commentary: Israel's prime minister has gone too far
by Jane Eisner, Los Angeles Times
Feb 27, 2019
3 minutes
In 1984, Meir Kahane, the renegade, openly racist American rabbi who had immigrated to Israel, won a seat in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament. His fiery rhetoric and anti-Arab proposals so enraged his fellow lawmakers that nearly all of them walked out whenever he rose to the podium to speak.
Among them was the prime minister at the time, Yitzhak Shamir of the right-wing Likud party, who denounced Kahane as "dangerous."
Kahane's continued provocations and attempted assaults on Israeli democracy finally led the Knesset
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