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Chaim Ben Pesach

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Victor Vancier, commonly referred to as Chaim Ben Pesach (Hebrew: חיים בן פסח, born December 25, 1956) is the former National Chairman of the Jewish Defence League (JDL) in the United States.[citation needed] He is an Orthodox Jew. He is the son of an Ashkenazic Jewish father, Pesach Ben Dov, and an Egyptian Sefardic Jewish mother, Malkah Bat Meir.

Vancier served as JDL chairman in 1978[citation needed], but stepped down in December of that year after he went to jail for bombing Egyptian targets in an effort to stop the Israeli retreat from the Sinai Peninsula. After his release and upon the completion of his probation in July 1983, he rejoined JDL.[1] During the 1980s, Vancier was arrested again, along with two other JDL members in connection with six incidents; a 1984 firebombing of an automobile at a Soviet diplomatic residence, the 1985 and 1986 fire and pipe bombings of an FBI informer's car, the 1986 firebombing at a hall where the Soviet State Symphony Orchestra was performing, and two 1986 detonations of tear gas grenades to protest performances by Soviet dance companies.[2][3] On November 26, 1986 he was arrested outside the Penta Hotel with a tear gas grenade after a fire broke out in the tunnels under the hotel where the Soviet Moiseyev Dance Company, was staying. He was charged with a federal weapons violation and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.[4] Vancier did this in the hopes of influencing the Soviet Union to allow Jewish emigration. According to Vancier, while he was in jail, he became very thin because they wouldn't give him any kosher food until Republican Senator Jesse Helms intervened on his behalf.

Vancier is currently the head of the Jewish Task Force, a right-wing Jewish Kahanist organization in the United States which he created in 1991. The Jewish Task Force raises money for the purpose of funding right-wing Jewish groups in Israel,[5] puts on television programs through local-access cable and runs a website with the stated goal of saving Israel, America, and the West.[5] Vancier is banned from entering Israel because of his support of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane's Kach Party, which has been outlawed in Israel. 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.

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.jtf.org/israel/israel.ben.pesach.speech.interrupted.part.three.htm
  2. ^ http://www.adl.org/extremism/jdl_chron.asp
  3. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/09/nyregion/3-jdl-members-seized-in-bombings.html?scp=3&sq=victor%20vancier&st=cse
  4. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/27/nyregion/prison-for-ex-jdl-chief-in-bombing.html
  5. ^ a b Jewish Task Force website

Further reading

  • Sanchez, Juan (2007). 'Terrorism & Its Effects'. Global Media. ISBN 8189940937.
  • Smith, Brent L. (1994). 'Terrorism in America: Pipe Bombs and Pipe Dreams'. State University of New York Press. p. 256. ISBN 0791417603.
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