Jewish Task Force

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Jewish Task Force
A screenshot of the JTF website.
URL	http://www.jtf.org
Type of site	radical right wing
Owner	Victor Vancier
Created by	Victor Vancier
Launched	August, 1998

The Jewish Task Force (Hebrew: הימין האמיתי, HaYamin HaAmiti, lit. "The Real Right Wing") is a Kahanist organization^{[citation needed]} in the United States that raises money for the claimed purpose of funding radical right-wing Jewish groups in Israel,^[1] puts on television programs through local-access cable and runs a website with the stated goal of saving Israel, America, and The West.^[1] JTF is run by the former national chairman of the Jewish Defense League, Victor Vancier, who is also commonly known as Chaim Ben Pesach, and previously as Chaim Ben Yosef. In October of 1987, he was sentenced to 10 years in Federal prison for taking part in a series of terrorist bombings in the New York area since 1984 to protest Soviet treatment of Jews.^[2]^[3]^[4] The group defines itself as "fighting to save America and Israel from Islamic terrorism."^[1] Unlike most 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"^[1] and is against America becoming what it calls a "Third World banana republic".^[1] JTF's messages have also caused it to be condemned for alleged racism,^[5]^[6] and has been condemned by the Anti-Defamation League and the Simon Wiesenthal Center.^[7]

1 Spokesmen
2 Media and publications
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Spokesmen

Victor Vancier serves as the organization's main spokesman, and the host of the all JTF broadcasts.^[1] Other JTF spokesmen are David Ben Moshe (who co-hosts one of the JTF programs), Yosef Ben Meir (who used to co-host one of the JTF programs), and the webmaster.^[8] Occasionally Vancier has other guests on the show, including non-Jews such as Sean Reilly, an Irish Catholic, and anti-Islam author Craig Winn.

[edit] Media and publications

JTF began broadcasting on New York City public access television in December, 1991, originally under the name "Jewish Task Force on Media Bias".^{[citation needed]} Prior to that, they had a radio program. JTF currently broadcasts on QPTV, a Queens, New York public access cable TV station. They used to broadcast in Manhattan as well but they were later taken off the air.