Despite the assassination of Rabbi Kahane in 1990, the Kach movement, and its closely affiliated splinter group, Kahane Chai, remained active in Israel.  Kach has vehemently opposed the peace process, threatening and using violence against both Arabs and Israeli government officials.  Following the signing of the Oslo peace accords between Israel and the PLO in 1994, a Kach supporter killed 29 people in a mosque in Hebron.  As a result of this attack, Israel formally outlawed Kach and designated it as a terrorist organization.  Despite its being outlawed, Kach continues its anti-Arab activities within Israel.  While the group has not officially claimed many attacks since being outlawed, Kach praises and supports any violence against Arabs.  <br /><p><br />In February 2005 Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon accused Kach activists of threatening government officials who supported his plan of "disengagement" from Gaza.  Sharon warned that the tension between those who supported and those who opposed his plan had the potential to lead to bloodshed.  Although Kach did not officially carry out any attacks, shortly before the disengagement plan was to be executed, a Jewish IDF deserter named Eden Natan-Zada carried out a shooting attack on a bus full of Arabs in Shfaram, Israel.  Natan-Zada was not a known member of Kach, but is said to have been inspired by the movement.  <P><br />The United States designates Kach and its affiliate Kahane Chai as terrorist organizations, a designation which Kach rejects, and has challenged in U.S. courts.  In October 2006, a U.S. federal court of appeals ruled that Kach was correctly designated and would remain on the FTO list for the forseeable future.

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Kach -- Founding Group

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Kahane Chai is an offshoot of Kach, the religious extremist group formed by Rabbi Meir Kahane.  Following Kahane's assassination in 1990, his son Binyamin Kahane formed Kahane Chai (which means Kahane lives).  Although Kahane Chai and Kach are designated separately, Kahane Chai is essentially an alias for Kach as the two groups have a shared core leadership and are referred to interchangeably in the media. The differences between Kach and Kahane Chai centered around personal squabbles between Binyamin Kahane and the leaders of Kach, but such differences have disappeared since Binyamin Kahane was killed in 2000.<p>  Kahane Chai, along with Kach, was banned from politics in Israel in 1994 following Dr. Baruch Goldstein's killing of 29 Muslims in the Cave of the Patriarchs.  Goldstein was a member of Kach and statements in support of his actions by Kach and Kahane Chai led to their ban.  Despite this ban, Kahane Chai is still very active in Israeli society and its leaders openly recruit new members and criticize government policy.<p>  Kahane Chai is a violent group that aims to reinstate the ancient Biblical kingdom in Israel.  It aims for expulsion of Arabs from Israeli territory and the creation of a Jewish theocracy.  The group has been linked to a bombing attempt at the schoolyard of an Arab all-girls school and has been designated as a terrorist group by many foreign governments due to its constant intimidation of Arabs throughout Israel.  The group has in recent years refrained from major terrorist activity as it is attempting to convince the Israeli government to lift the ban on Kahane Chai.<br />