Summary
Rabbi Meir Kahane’s “Jewish Power” organisation, styled on the Black Panther Party, whose rise Feldman treats as typifying the corporealisation of a masculinised tough Jew in the post-1967 United States (A Shadow over Palestine, lines 651-659).
Details
- Kahane’s Never Again! (1969) provided the JDL’s “program for survival”; the JDL mimicked the Panthers’ performative practice and willingness to assert ethno-nationalist violence as self-defence while abhorring the Panthers’ support for the Palestinians (line 651).
- In May 1969 JDL members barricaded New York’s Congregation Emanu-el against James Forman’s planned presentation of the “Black Manifesto” reparations document for the Black National Economic Conference; Forman never spoke (lines 653-657).
- A June 1969 full-page New York Times advertisement, “Is This Any Way for Nice Jewish Boys to Behave?,” advanced propositions that Jews should not be victims of quota systems and reverse discrimination, of totalitarian revolutionaries of the Radical Left, or be forced to pay reparations (line 657).
- Under the catchphrase “Every Jew a .22” the JDL established a summer camp to teach Jewish youth combat, and staged dozens of actions on behalf of Soviet Jewry (line 657).
Related pages
A Shadow over Palestine, Meir Kahane, Kach, Black Panther Party