Mike Guzovsky

Mike Guzovsky, also known as Mike Guzofsky[1] and Yekutiel Ben-Ya'acov,[2] is an American-Israeli follower of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane. He lives in the settlement of Kfar Tapuach in the West Bank.[2]

The Anti-Defamation League reported that during the mid-1990s, Guzovsky was the leader of Kahane Chai (an offshoot of Kach)[2] in the United States, where he demonstrated against Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and for Baruch Goldstein, who killed 29 Muslims.[3] When Rabin was assassinated in 1995, Guzovsky stated that "Rabin was bad for Jews" and said of his murderer, Yigal Amir, that "An intelligent man, one like this law student, had to act."[1]

He has organized peaceful resistance against the dismantlement of settlements.[2]

In 2005, Guzovsky said in the PBS documentary Israel's Next War that: "We have thousands of civilians with the military know-how to instigate a mega-attack against Arabs, unidentified people, like Rabin's assassin, Yigal Amir, who can do such a deed. No matter how much the security service and the police harass us, it won't do them any good."[4]

According to the British Government, Guzovsky is a Jewish militant and is on the list of individuals banned from entering the United Kingdom.[5][6]

References
  1. McAlary, Mike (6 November 1995). "THE HATE BEHIND THE GUN RABIN'S FOES HAIL 'HERO' KILLER". New York Daily News. Archived from the original on 10 May 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-06.
  2. Izenberg, Dan (8 August 2005). "Traffic-blocking girls released after spending 39 days in custody". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 2009-05-06.
  3. "Extremism in the Name of Religion: The Violent Record of the Kahane Movement and its Offshoots" (PDF). Anti-Defamation League. 1995. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-05-29. Retrieved 2009-05-06.
  4. Setton, Dan (2005). "Israel's Next War?". Frontline. PBS. Retrieved 2009-05-06.
  5. "Home Office name hate promoters excluded from the UK". Press Release. UK Home Office. 5 May 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-05-07. Retrieved 2009-05-06.
  6. "Who is on UK 'least wanted' list?". BBC News. 5 May 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-06.
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