Hundreds of supporters of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane arrived at a Jerusalem hall last night to hold a spontaneous memorial ceremony for him, despite a Supreme Court ruling forbidding it. The police used clubs and indiscriminately hit men, women, and children to disperse the gathering, and arrested six people.
The Court had ruled that the ceremony was organized by a \"terrorist group,\" Kach. The Kahane family maintained that it was behind the memorial for their father, but the Court did not accept this claim. Attorney Naftali Wurzberger said that the police were engaged in \"shutting mouths, which is not their job in a democratic state. The criteria for shutting down an event must be actions, not opinions expressed there.\"
The Court had ruled that the ceremony was organized by a \"terrorist group,\" Kach. The Kahane family maintained that it was behind the memorial for their father, but the Court did not accept this claim. Attorney Naftali Wurzberger said that the police were engaged in \"shutting mouths, which is not their job in a democratic state. The criteria for shutting down an event must be actions, not opinions expressed there.\"