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Jewish religious terrorism is religious terrorism committed by Jews.

Extremist organizations

• Gush Emunim Underground (defunct): formed by members of Gush Emunim.^[1]
• Brit HaKanaim (defunct): an organisation operating in Israel from 1950 to 1953 with the objective of imposing Jewish religious law in the country and establishing a Halakhic state.
• The Jewish Defense League (JDL): founded in 1969 by Rabbi Meir Kahane in New York City, with the declared purpose of protecting Jews from harassment and antisemitism.^[2] FBI statistics show that, from 1980 to 1985, 15 terrorist attacks were attempted in the U.S. by members of the JDL.^[3] The FBI’s Mary Doran described the JDL in 2004 Congressional testimony as "a proscribed terrorist group".^[4] The National Consortium for the Study of Terror and Responses to Terrorism states that, during the JDL's first two decades of activity, it was an "active terrorist organization."^[5][2]. Kahanist groups are banned in Israel.^[6][7][8]

Yaakov Teitel

On 7 October 2009, Israeli Security Authorities, Shin Bet arrested Yaakov (Jack) Teitel, a resident of the West Bank settlement of Shvut Rachel for suspected murder and a role in a string of murder plots, in which two Palestinians were killed and Israel Prize Laureate Prof. Zeev Sternhell was injured. He was apprehended in the ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Nof after posting signs around town praising the attack on the Tel Aviv gay center. On 1 November 2009 Israel authorities the police say Teitel has confessed to the acts. According to the Shin Bet, he also planted a bomb at the entrance to house of a messianic family in Ariel, seriously wounding their son, then-15-year-old Ami Ortiz.^{[9] [10]}

See also

• Zionist political violence
• Jewish fundamentalism
• Religious terrorism
• Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
• Crime in Israel
• Islamic terrorism
• Christian terrorism

References

External links

• Successor to the Terrorism Knowledge Base
• Unmasking religious terrorism