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...controversial right-wing Israeli who advocated expelling all Arabs from Israeli territory was gunned down in Manhattan on November 5 by El Sayyid A. Nosair, an American of Egyptian ancestry. Kahane's death at the hands of an Arab lent respectablity to the man and his racist hatred...

Author: By Joshua Z. Heller, | Title: Rabbi Kahane's Last Victory | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

Most Israelis rejected his ideas as unethical, immoral and racist. Kahane ultimately appealed to only a small segment of the Israeli population and the world Jewish community. At the height of his popularity, Kach garnered only about 5 percent of the vote in Israeli parliamentary elections. In 1988, his party lost much of its support when it was barred from elections under the terms of an Israeli law against racist and undemocratic parties...

Author: By Joshua Z. Heller, | Title: Rabbi Kahane's Last Victory | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

...surprisingly, most Israelis rejected Kahane. They realized that Kahane's program, in addition to being racist and immoral, was simply politically untenable. In other countries which have attempted population exchanges--notably India and Pakistan and Greece and Turkey--ethnic hatred has been heightened, not calmed...

Author: By Joshua Z. Heller, | Title: Rabbi Kahane's Last Victory | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

...congressional champion of archconservatism, Senator Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), beat a Black liberal, Harvey Gantt, with a last-minute racist appeal. California voters resisted Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dianne Feinstein's plea to give a woman a chance, giving the Republicans control of the most politically important state in the nation. And two of the front-runners for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1992, N.J. Senator Bill Bradley and N.Y. Gov. Mario Cuomo, squeaked to unimpressive victories against little-known opponents...

Author: By Jason M. Solomon, | Title: Low-Budget Winners | 11/14/1990 | See Source »

...ability to identify the correct answer from a predetermined list." But Bob Schaeffer of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, a longtime critic of the SAT, charged that the board had failed to deal with the verbal section's analogy problems, which frequently make unconsciously elitist, racist or sexist assumptions about the backgrounds of those taking the test. On one recent test, nearly 16% more men than women were able to select the right analogy to "mercenary: soldier" (hack: writer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Test That Everyone Fears | 11/12/1990 | See Source »

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