Zo Artzeinu

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Zo Artzeinu (Hebrew: זו ארצנו‎, This is our land) was a political protest movement created and led by Moshe Feiglin and Shmuel Sackett in Israel to block Israeli land concessions to the Arabs in the early 1990s, especially the Oslo Accords. The movement was known to block roads and use other forms of civil disobedience adapted from the civil rights movement in the United States to make known their protests and goals.

Feiglin and Sackett established Zo Artzeinu after the Knesset of Israel banned the Kach party movement in Israel. Feiglin and Sackett were determined to find a way to continue the goals of Kahane for a more Judaic and secure Israel, but by peaceful means only. They did not agree with the more militant approach of Kahane's son Rabbi Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane who had set up the Kahane Chai movement which was then subsequently also officially banned.

In 1998, Feiglin and Sackett moved on to establish the Manhigut Yehudit ("Jewish Leadership") faction within the Likud party, with Feiglin eventually running for leadership of the Likud party.