The Rabbi who must not be named -- Rabbi Meir Kahane
This co-authored article was posted to Alex Sternberg's Time of Israel Blog . It seems that for extreme liberal progressives, Rabbi Meir Kahane has become the “Rabbi who must not be named.” When Lizzy Savetsky, a pro-Israel social media influencer, shared a video of Meir Kahane discussing the realities of engaging with “real” Arabs in the 1970s and 1980s, it sparked a new wave of condemnations against him as well as against Lizzy. Most people today know very little about who Rabbi Kahane was and what he represented. Assassinated over 35 years ago in 1990, many individuals who now express unfounded opinions on social media were not even born when Kahane founded the Jewish Defense League in 1968. We, on the other hand, worked closely with Kahane and the JDL from 1968 to 1972, during the tumultuous four years that shaped the identity of the militant group. We spent our days and nights with him, sometimes even sharing a jail cell. We got to know him well. We a...