US Republicans work with Jewish extremists to build the Third Temple

Republicans are working with Kahanists to advance a violent vision of Jewish control over Jerusalem’s holy sites.

Though Israel banned Kach in 1984, publicly available tax filings show that the original party’s infrastructure has been reconstituted in a collection of Temple Movement-affiliated nonprofits founded and run by Kahanist luminaries. Israeli researchers and organisers have documented some ties among Kahanist groups, and between Kahanist groups and the Temple Movement. Jewish Currents’ review of Israeli tax filings identified a larger number of affiliated groups, including some that register nonprofits in the United States. 

The Temple Movement’s influence—once largely limited to the most extreme settler groups in Hebron and Jerusalem—has been on the rise since 2010, the same year that US voters gave the GOP control over the House of Representatives. Since then, Republicans travelling in Israel/Palestine have repeatedly visited Al-Aqsa with Temple Movement escorts. 

and Proclaiming Justice to the Nations (PJTN). 

The goal of the Temple Movement is not only to abrogate this “status quo” arrangement in which the waqf controls the esplanade, but ultimately to destroy Al-Aqsa and Haram Al-Sharif, the compound’s most sacred sanctuary, and rebuild the Jewish holy temple in their place. Temple Movement groups have already drawn up basic blueprints.

The movement’s GOP allies have publicly amplified a sanitised version of these goals, claiming that the Temple Movement’s aim is simply to end religious discrimination against Jews and give them prayer rights at Al-Aqsa. 

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The GOP’s Plan to Build the Third Temple (Jewish Currents)

Photo: The Temple Institute[GU1] , known in Hebrew as Machon HaMikdash is an organisation in Israel focusing on establishing the Third Temple. (Wikipedia)