Historical Footnote

Another bit of history.

I'm mentioned in this radical left-wing story of JDL & Kahane:-

As a teen-ager Kahane was a member of Betar, the youth wing of the Revisionist movement. Together with his young colleagues, Kahane packed arms at the Hoboken docks to be smuggled to the Irgun during Israel’s war of independence. At the time, Betar’s leader in the United States was Moshe Arens, who later became Israel’s Ambassador to the United States.

When Kahane founded the J.D.L., most of its core members were his childhood friends from Betar. Through the 1970s, the J.D.L. worked closely with Betar’s New York chapters, coordinating often violent protests against Arabs and the Russians. The Betar official who arranged events with the J.D.L. was Yisrael Medad, now Geula Cohen’s chief legislative aide.