Prof. Ehud Shprintzak, Dean of the School of Government in the Inter-Disciplinary Institute of Herzliya, wrote a letter to Kach member Baruch Marzel yesterday - it was presented to the Supreme Court as well - in which he expressed sharp opposition to the decision to ban the memorial ceremony. Arutz-7\'s Haggai Segal asked him what made him write this letter. Shprintzak answered,
\"I have expressed in the past my strong objections to the violence and illegal activities of Kach, and this is why I took the trouble to express my opinion against the decision to ban the memorial. I felt that the decision involved very faulty judgment, and there are times when a person must speak up even when it doesn\'t jibe with his other publicly-expressed opinions. In this case, the injustice simply cries out...
\"In my opinion, the activities of Kach - which, as I said, I am against - should have been legalized a long time ago. Timing is very important, and after 5-6 years of the organization being outlawed, it is time to review whether the circumstances are still the same. But specifically, in this case, the Court stated that the organizers were former Kach members; but this does not take away from their right to also be students of Rabbi Kahane [and to want to remember him]! I happen to know that they feel very close to him and to his family, and it is beyond my understanding how a decision like this could be made...
\"The Court was given secret information - but did not claim that there was a plan afoot to cause some kind of public danger, but rather that the organizers were former Kach members. So what?! Why don\'t they have the right to conduct a memorial for their teacher? This is truly an unreasonable decision... \"Not only that, there is also the humanitarian factor. These people suffered the terrible loss only ten months ago of Binyamin Ze\'ev Kahane and his wife Talya, parents to six small children, in a very cruel manner [they were murdered by Palestinian terrorists] - I just don\'t understand this terrible technocracy that operated here, it just drove me nuts, and this is why I wrote the letter.\"
\"I have expressed in the past my strong objections to the violence and illegal activities of Kach, and this is why I took the trouble to express my opinion against the decision to ban the memorial. I felt that the decision involved very faulty judgment, and there are times when a person must speak up even when it doesn\'t jibe with his other publicly-expressed opinions. In this case, the injustice simply cries out...
\"In my opinion, the activities of Kach - which, as I said, I am against - should have been legalized a long time ago. Timing is very important, and after 5-6 years of the organization being outlawed, it is time to review whether the circumstances are still the same. But specifically, in this case, the Court stated that the organizers were former Kach members; but this does not take away from their right to also be students of Rabbi Kahane [and to want to remember him]! I happen to know that they feel very close to him and to his family, and it is beyond my understanding how a decision like this could be made...
\"The Court was given secret information - but did not claim that there was a plan afoot to cause some kind of public danger, but rather that the organizers were former Kach members. So what?! Why don\'t they have the right to conduct a memorial for their teacher? This is truly an unreasonable decision... \"Not only that, there is also the humanitarian factor. These people suffered the terrible loss only ten months ago of Binyamin Ze\'ev Kahane and his wife Talya, parents to six small children, in a very cruel manner [they were murdered by Palestinian terrorists] - I just don\'t understand this terrible technocracy that operated here, it just drove me nuts, and this is why I wrote the letter.\"