re: #2 The Ghost of a Flea

Anybody who follows Israeli politics want to provide their impressions? I’d appreciate it.

Kahane was the far right racist politician and founder of the “Kach” (later “Kahane Chai”) far-right political party. Some of his claims to fame while in the Knesset included sending threatening mails to Arab Israelis, racism against Israelis coming from Arab countries, attempts to establish any marriage or sexual relations between Jews and non-Jews as a crime and more. The Israeli government eventually passed anti-racism laws in 88 which effectively blocked “Kach” from running again.
The party ideology was based on notions that the law of the Torah/Halachah should supersede state laws, calling for turning Israel into a religious Jewish nation, and that the only solution to the Israeli-Arab conflict was forced segregation and expulsion of Arabs.
It used to be (and still is, to the best of my knowledge) that calling someone a Kahanist was basically calling them an extremist either on account of religious outlook, racism or both. To many, it’s viewed as the Jewish ideological equivalent of Hamas.