Kahanism

By Ashley Hayes

Most of us are all too familiar with the terms Christian Zionism and Jewish Zionism, but are you familiar with Kahanist Zionism? I wasn’t.

Until today, I had never heard of Kahanist Zionism aka Kahanism. Now that I have, I can better understand the extreme, unfathomably depraved wickedness on display in Israel, Palestine and the West Bank — funded by the US government — and how, and why, it has persisted for so long, unabated, undeterred, swelling to the point of an undeniable ethnic cleansing.

It’s not only Zionists who are responsible for the ongoing atrocities, rapes, murders, decapitations, and intentional starving of innocent children but, particularly, Kahanist Zionists.

Interestingly, Kahanism, named for its founder, American rabbi Meir Kahane, did not originate in Israel, but rather, in Brooklyn, New York. Journalist J.E. Rosenberg writes:

“Its founder, Meir Kahane, was a militant anti-communist, racist, and Jewish supremacist who served as a congregational rabbi in Brooklyn, N.Y., in the 1960s. Kahane founded the terrorist group Jewish Defense League (JDL) in 1968 before relocating to Israel, where he established the extremist Kach political party.*

Kahane’s ideology was a fusion of fascism and religious extremism, ostensibly aimed at “protecting” Jews from antisemitism. Like other fascists, he believed power came through violence and strength.”

Rosenberg’s article continues here: https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/kahanism-the-most-dangerous-form-of-zionism/. He illustrates that one of the most prominent Kahanist/Kach party figures today is Itamar Ben-Gvir, an extraordinarily evil, hate-filled, convicted criminal whom Benjamin Netanyahu appointed (in 2022) as Israel’s National Security Minister, overseeing the Israeli police.

Kehane was assassinated in 1990 and four years later, the Kach party was outlawed in Israeli politics. The movement, however, was simply rebranded as Otzma Yehudit (or Jewish Power) explains David Sheen, a Haifa-based investigative journalist.

“Like the rest of the Kahanist movement, Ben-Gvir’s objective is to ethnically cleanse the entire country of non-Jews, not just Palestinians,” Sheen said. “They aim to exchange Israel’s ethnocracy for a theocratic monarchy. And they don’t just support terrorism as a means to an end. They believe that killing non-Jews is actually sanctified.” Read more here: https://www.newarab.com/analysis/israeli-politician-provoking-violence-sheikh-jarrah

Additionally, in a March 2005 article in the Guardian, journalist Joshua Leifer writes:

Since 7 October 2023, Kahanism has become mainstream. It is the political style that relishes the dehumanisation of Palestinians. It is the ethos according to which Jewish lives are seen as more valuable than all others. It is the ideology behind the normalisation of population transfer and ethnic cleansing. Netanyahu’s Likud has undergone a process of near total Kahanisation, to say nothing of the settler right.

In a January 2025 op-ed for the liberal daily Haaretz, the veteran Israeli journalist Gideon Levy described what had ensued since 7 October as the country’s first Kahanist war. “Almost everything about it was meant to appease the fascist, racist, population-transferist far right,” Levy wrote. “The spirit of Kahanism seized control over its goals and content.” (See the full article here: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/mar/20/meir-kahane-israel-kach-ben-gvir-long-dead-extremist)

And finally, as we have all witnessed for several years now, yes, Donald Trump supports all of this (and always has). His Israel-First agenda has been prominently on display throughout his administration(s), and even more so since October 7, exemplified by the billions in military funding he has provided Israel (while his own country suffers). And while both he and Netanyahu each pretend they have the same beliefs and/or aspirations as that of Christians, all they’re really doing is gaslighting and brainwashing Christians into supporting their demonic goals and those of their fellow Kahanists.

Learn more here:

https://peoplesworld.org/article/trump-administration-to-roll-out-red-carpet-for-genocide-cheerleader-itamar-ben-gvir/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/pms-office-confirms-netanyahu-gifted-trump-a-golden-pager-at-white-house-meeting/
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=kach+party%2C+ben-gvir
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/860372/pdf (re the Jewish Defense League)
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-01-25/ty-article/.premium/ben-gvirs-plan-for-a-national-guard-is-nothing-new-and-chances-of-it-happening-are-slim/00000185-e91d-d8d4-add7-f91f4a290000
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-736359 (budgets for over 40 ministries reduced to fund Ben-Gvir’s National Guard)
https://www.adalah.org/en/content/view/10803 (Futile Investigation File Indicates Whitewashing of Torture Conducted By Israeli Police)
https://www.adalah.org/en/content/view/10351#Stories%20subhead%20banner (re the torture at Israel’s police station in Nazareth, 2021)
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-officials-discussed-using-human-shields-gaza-us-intel
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-war-crimes-gaza-whistleblower-itv-documentary-b2862575.html
https://www.nif.org/press-releases/nif-ceo-kahanism-is-a-danger-to-israeli-democracy/
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/kahanism-the-most-dangerous-form-of-zionism/
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-06-05/ty-article-magazine/.premium/behind-the-smiles-and-doughnut-stands-chabads-growing-alliance-with-ben-gvir/00000197-362b-d340-a5d7-b6fb81aa0000
https://jewishcurrents.org/chabads-extremist-turn
https://www.hrw.org/report/2024/12/19/extermination-and-acts-genocide/israel-deliberately-depriving-palestinians-gaza
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/ben-gvir-puts-up-poster-of-destroyed-gaza-for-palestinian-security-inmates-to-view/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/10/who-are-bezalel-smotrich-and-itamar-ben-gvir-the-israeli-ministers-facing-sanctions (Ben-Gvir exhibited extremism so young that he was barred from mandated IDF service)

*The US (California)-based Jewish Defense League has been designated a terrorist organization by the FBI. Its current CEO is Shelley Rubin, widow of JDL International chairman, Irv Rubin.

Ashley Hayes is a former business entrepreneur, patented inventor, researcher, and writer seeking to bring attention to the clearly-organized crimes of unlawful and corrupt law enforcement and fusion center personnel against innocent Americans and citizens worldwide, as well as crimes committed by military contractors via 21st-century technology, and to the pandemic of child trafficking by those in power.