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The Jewish Task Force (JTF) is a Kahanist organization in the United States that raises money for right-wing Jewish groups in Israel, and which puts on television programs through local-access cable and runs a website. JTF is run by the former National Chairman of the Jewish Defense League, Chaim Ben Pesach, whose English name is Victor Vancier. The group defines itself as "fighting to save America and Israel from Islamic terrorism." Unlike some other Kahanist organizations which take positions only on issues related to Israel, JTF also has an American agenda; it wishes to stop what it calls the "Third World invasion of America". Its strong criticism of black leaders such as Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Louis Farakhan and its frequent ridicule of certain aspects of African American culture have led some to charge JTF with racism, a charge which JTF denies.
JTF decribes itself as leading a "righteous struggle to defeat the Bolshevik Israeli government's evil plan to give away Jewish holy land to the Arab terrorists, which is a primary goal to which Chaim Ben Pesach has dedicated his life.". JTF also believess that "the opinions expressed by JTF are refreshing and inspiring". They believe that "not only is JTF a breath of fresh air, but also that it is one of the only news sources to give an accurate and factual account of the week's events in America and Israel".
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[edit] Stated goals
JTF's stated goal is to raise money from Jews and "Righteous Gentiles" to support its right-wing allies in Israel such as Jewish dissident leaders Noam Federman, the spiritual leader of the Hilltop Youth, Baruch Marzel the leader of the Chayil Party, and Itamar Ben-Gvir, the spokesman of the Chayil Party, as well as the organizations they lead. These JTF-funded right-wing groups are currently engaged in a civil disobedience campaign of blocking roads and highways throughout Israel to protest and stop Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to retreat from the Gaza District and Northern Samaria.
According to Chaim, JTF is made up of Jewish and "Righteous Gentile" Religious Zionists, but these people are not members because they are simply asked to help out financially. JTF does not have an official membership. JTF uses these donations to help the political efforts of their allies in Israel. JTF hopes to raise enough money to help Baruch Marzel's Chayil Party come to power in Israel, where they would in turn fund a JTF program on national television in the United States to inspire a Right Wing "Righteous Gentile" movement to take over the U.S. government.
The example set by JTF's Israeli allies should be followed by right-wing Gentiles in America, according to Ben Pesach, who believes that "God intended America to be a country for Righteous Gentiles built on the Biblical principles of The Founding Fathers". Right-wing Gentiles in America should block roads and highways in a massive civil disobedience campaign to demand the expulsion of all illegal aliens in the U.S., JTF urges. Those who wish to support JTF are simply asked for checks, money orders, or cash donations made out to JTF. They also encourage people to send donations to an organization called The Voice of Jewish Activism (VJA) which is "tax exempt and funds the humanitarian and educational needs" of their allies in Israel.
[edit] JTF's seven-point plan
JTF also published their "Seven-Point Plan" on their website:
- A ferocious retaliation against all Muslim nations which have in any way aided or abetted terrorism against American citizens.
- The immediate destruction by the American or Israeli military of all Muslim nuclear reactors, plants and laboratories developing nuclear, chemical and/or biological weapons of mass destruction.
- Total energy independence for America through a crash development program funded in the defense budget as a vital national security priority.
- An immediate end to all U.S. foreign aid, even to a genuine friend and ally like Israel, which is harmed rather than helped by her counterproductive dependency on America's addictive welfare handouts.
- An immediate end to all foreign immigration into the United States, combined with the complete expulsion of America's millions of illegal aliens and the stringent removal of her legal ones at the expiration of their work or residency visas.
- An immediate recognition by the United States of little Israel's God-given right and obligation to assert full and permanent sovereign control over all sacred Jewish Biblical lands, including Judea, Samaria, the Gaza District, the Golan Heights and eastern Jerusalem.
- An immediate withdrawal from the fanatically anti-American United Nations (UN) and all organizations directly or indirectly affiliated with it, and the immediate banning of all UN-related activities on American soil.
[edit] Spokesmen
[edit] Chaim Ben Pesach
Chaim Ben Pesach was the Jewish Defense League National Chairman who led efforts to free Soviet Jewry by bombing Soviet diplomatic targets in New York and by tear-gassing a Soviet ballet performance at Lincoln Center in the 1980s. He pleaded guilty in connection with six bombings and was sentenced to 10 years but served five and a half before being released on probation. Chaim has said that while he was in jail, he became very thin because they wouldn't give him any kosher food until Senator Jesse Helms intervened on his behalf. Upon his release, he started JTF.
Chaim is banned from entering Israel because of his controversial right-wing views. In 1996, he tried to emigrate to Israel, but was immediately detained at Ben-Gurion International Airport upon his arrival, and was placed in administrative detention in a cell in the airport. He was not allowed to speak to an attorney nor an American Embassy official, despite the fact that he is an American citizen. He was subsequently deported to the U.S., where he now lives in the New York metropolitan area.
For personal information on Chaim, see the article Chaim Ben Pesach, personal.
[edit] Other spokesmen
Other JTF spokesmen are David Ben Moshe (who co-hosts one of the JTF programs with Chaim), Yosef Ben Meir (who used to co-host one of the JTF programs with Chaim), and the webmaster. Occasionally Chaim has other Jews as guests on the show and sometimes he has "Righteous Gentiles" as guests on the show, including Sean Reilly, an Irish Catholic, and author Craig Winn, a Christian fundamentalist who has written numerous books and articles which claim that the Islamic religion commands Muslims to hate and murder all non-Muslims.
[edit] Media and publications
[edit] Television programs
JTF has two weekly television shows which both air twice on QPTV, a Queens, New York public access cable TV station. The audio portions of these shows are available for download from their website in RealAudio format.
[edit] Website
Since 1998, JTF has a website which updates every Wednesday morning which Chaim runs with the help of his webmaster. The website has articles among other things as well as the audio of the two weekly JTF TV shows. The format of these shows has changed in the past, with various guest hosts and periods where Chaim has hosted both programs. It also has two Hebrew sections on its website in which there are two weekly audio programs, one since December, 2004, which is hosted by Noam Federman, the spiritual leader of the Hilltop Youth, and the other one, since February, 2005, by Chaim Ben Pesach with Gil Avraham.
[edit] Issues and controversies
[edit] JTF and black leaders
JTF's strong criticism of black leaders such as Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Louis Farrakhan, and its frequent ridicule of certain aspects of African American culture have led some to charge JTF with racism, a charge which JTF denies. JTF vigorously criticizes many African Americans and Mexicans. JTF asserts that the frequent ridicule of Black and Mexican culture is only directed at those blacks and Mexicans who are anti-white and anti-Semitic, but JTF's critics insist that the ridicule is intentionally racist. JTF does support some black conservatives such as Alan Keyes, Emanuel McLittle, and Roy Innis. JTF says that it only hates people because of evil culture, not because of race, and that people of any race can reject evil culture and be righteous. JTF favors the relocation of non-whites which it views as not loyal to America. It wants to repatriate them to their place of origin with a basket of emigration giving them money to be permanently sent back to where they came from. JTF has also proposed this for non-loyal whites. They are against America becoming what they call a "Third World banana republic".
[edit] JTF and Islam
JTF strongly criticizes Islam, often referring to the Koran (the Islamic bible) as "Nazi" or "monstrous". JTF says that the Koran requires its followers to to murder all "non-Muslim infidels". JTF supports the fight on "Muslim terror" and in keeping with this, they supported Slobodan Milosevic's policies and the "heroic Serb Christians'" struggles in Bosnia and Kosovo.
JTF urges everyone to read the Koran and the Hadith (another book that Muslims are required to believe in) to see for themselves what Islam preaches. The JTF web site has a link to a leading Islamic web site which translates the entire Koran into English. JTF urges everyone to read the Koran as translated by the Muslims themselves. JTF claims that after reading the Koran, no one will doubt that Islam commands its followers to "either forcibly convert or physically exterminate all non-Muslims".
[edit] JTF and liberal Jewish organizations
JTF's views have been condemned by liberal Jewish organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League and the Simon Weisenthal Center, with the latter organization listing the JTF web site as a "hate group". JTF responds by calling the established Jewish organizations "cowardly self-hating Jews who support handing over the sacred Land of Israel to the PLO Nazi terrorists".
[edit] JTF and Israeli government
JTF's weekly Hebrew broadcasts have drawn strong criticism from the Sharon government in Israel. Recently, JTF broadcaster Noam Federman, the spiritual leader of the Hilltop Youth who lives in Hebron, was summoned to the headquarters of Shabak, the Israeli secret police, where he was questioned for 18 hours during a two day period about his JTF program. Federman refused to answer any of Shabak's questions, and was informed that a criminal investigation had been initiated against him for allegedly using the JTF broadcasts to incite thousands of young Israeli Jews to engage in a civil disobedience campaign to protest Sharon's plans to retreat from the Gaza District and Samaria. The Israeli prosecutor's office and the Shabak claim that the JTF broadcasts are largely responsible for the growing wave of road and highway blockings taking place throughout Israel.
[edit] Claimed prediction of events
According to their website (JTF.ORG), "In a JTF television program which aired in Manhattan on Sunday, September 11, 1994 – precisely seven years to the day before the horrendous Muslim Nazi attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon – Chaim Ben Pesach explicitly predicted that the Islamic terrorists who bombed the Twin Towers in 1993 would return to finish their bloody work, mercilessly murdering thousands of Americans". However, while Chaim did predict that the Muslim terrorists who bombed the Twin Towers in 1993 would return to finish the job, some of his predictions in the broadcast were not accurate: Chaim guessed that the Muslim terrorists would return in the late 1990s, when in fact, they actually returned in 2001; Chaim also predicted that "tens of thousands" would be murdered in the next attack, when in fact, 3,000 were murdered; finally, Chaim thought that the Muslim terrorists would use a huge bomb to collapse the Twin Towers, when in fact, they used hijacked passenger planes.
Chaim claims that JTF's predictions and analysis of major news events have repeatedly been proven right. Prior to the Iraq war, JTF supporters point out, Chaim predicted that Saddam Hussein would not have weapons of mass destruction because international sanctions had crippled Iraq's ability to acquire such weaponry. Chaim said that the war was just about the personal Bush family vendetta with Saddam Hussein and finishing the job Bush's "wimpy" father didn't finish in the first Persian Gulf War in 1991. Chaim said regime change in Iraq would not help because he believes democracy is impossible in the Islamic world, and that if given the chance to vote, Muslims will choose an Iranian type Muslim dictatorship. JTF advocates destroying Iran's nuclear weapons program through air strikes rather than through invading and occupying an entire country.
[edit] External Links
- Jewish Task Force
- Archive.org entry for JTF.ORG. Since JTF.ORG has no archives, this is the only way to view previous editions of the site.
- Suck interview with Chaim Ben Pesach.
- Prophet of Doom by Craig Winn.
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