229:. He received national media attention in 1986 when he picketed "AryanFest" when it was held on Long's Alberta compound. The previous year, Weinstein had held meetings in Edmonton in an attempt to organize a JDL branch there. During one of the meetings he shouted down Rabbi Haim Kemelman, leader of Edmonton's Beth Shalom synagogue, after he criticized the JDL's methods and called Weinstein a "carpetbagger" and alleged he was trumping up a non-existent crisis of antisemitism in an attempt create an Edmonton JDL branch. "Those kinds of rabbis, those kind of Jews, in the end they dig a grave for Jews," said Weinstein who accused the rabbi of being "rude and extremist". "You see, I am silenced," the rabbi was reported as saying to a reporter after the incident, adding, "that is the JDL."
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Canadian JDL supporter, Brandon David William Vaughan, was arraigned in relation with the Washington D.C. assaults the previous year. Weinstein claimed that his members acted in "self-defence" saying of the beating victims "They found out that it’s not wise to lay not even a finger on any of us. Anyone who’s going to try and raise a fist to us, push us and assault us, we would be glad to enforce a citizen's arrest when there’s some semblance of cooperation from the aggressor. Unfortunately, we had to resort to a certain level of force, and we made it very clear the days of Jews being attacked and being docile are long over." However, there is no evidence that the victims had engaged in any form of violence.
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children. Palestine House president Rashad Saleh said the demonstrators "should be the ones who should be ashamed. (They) are coming here and terrorizing our little children." Weinstein argued that the children had been brought out as "pawns" by
Palestine House and claimed that the organization his group was picketing used its charitable status to fund the
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enhancement for causing significant bodily injury in relation to the beating of Kamal Nayfeh, a 55-year-old
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saying "s long as the Arab public celebrates every attack on a Jew, our organization does not condemn the attack. It condemns the
Israeli government for not providing adequate protection for settlers." He added that Kach does not advocate physical attacks on Palestinians but that it wants all members
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Canadian JDL in regards to an anonymous tip that the JDL was plotting to bomb Palestine House in Mississauga. Meir Weinstein reported that many members of the JDL were interviewed extensively, at home and at work and suggested that
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39:1957-08-18
1073:Irv Rubin
812:10 August
418:CBC Radio
406:Hezbollah
330:Hezbollah
273:Irv Rubin
1144:Kahanism
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106:Kahanist
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