Jewish Task Force

Jewish Task Force

Infobox Website
name = Jewish Task Force



caption = A screenshot of the JTF website.
url = http://www.jtf.org
commercial =
type = Right Wing Political
language =
registration =
owner = Victor Vancier
author = Victor Vancier
launch date = August, 1998
current status =
revenue = The Jewish Task Force (Hebrew: הימין האמיתי, HaYamin HaAmiti, lit. "The Real Right Wing") is a Kahanist organizationFact|date=October 2007 in the United States that raises money for the claimed purpose of funding radical right-wing Jewish groups in Israel, [http://www.jtf.org Jewish Task Force website] ] puts on television programs through local-access cable and runs a website with the stated goal of saving Israel, America, and The West. JTF is run by the former national chairman of the Jewish Defense League, Victor Vancier, who is also commonly known as Chaim Ben Pesach, and previously as Chaim Ben Yosef. In October of 1987, he was sentenced to 10 years in Federal prison for taking part in a series of "terrorist bombings" in the New York area since 1984 to protest Soviet treatment of Jews. [The New York Times, October 27, 1987, "Prison for Ex-J.D.L. Chief in Bombing"] [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE4DF1039F934A15753C1A961948260 Prison for Ex-J.D.L. Chief in Bombing - New York Times ] ] [ [http://www.adl.org/extremism/jdl_chron.asp Backgrounder:The Jewish Defense League ] ] The group defines itself as "fighting to save America and Israel from Islamic terrorism." Unlike most Kahanist organizations, which take positions only on issues related to Israel, JTF also has an American agenda; it wishes to stop what it calls the "Third World invasion of America" and is against America becoming what it calls a "Third World banana republic". JTF's messages have also caused it to be condemned for alleged racism, [http://www.simpleton.com/19990406.html] [ [http://jtf.org/israel/israel.arab.moderates.part.one.htm Jewish Task Force (JTF.ORG): Arab "Moderates" Are More Dangerous (Part 1) ] ] and has been condemned by the Anti-Defamation League and the Simon Wiesenthal Center. [ [http://www.israelappel.com/wiki/index.php?title=Jewish_Task_Force&printable=yes#JTF_and_liberal_Jewish_organizations Jewish Task Force - KahanePedia ] ]

pokesmen

Victor Vancier serves as the organization's main spokesman, and the host of the all JTF broadcasts.Other JTF spokesmen are David Ben Moshe (who co-hosts one of the JTF programs), Yosef Ben Meir (who used to co-host one of the JTF programs), and the webmaster. [ [http://www.jtfarchive.org JTFArchive.org] ] Occasionally Vancier has other guests on the show, including non-Jews such as Sean Reilly, an Irish Catholic, and anti-Islam author Craig Winn.

Media and publications

JTF began broadcasting on New York City public access television in December, 1991, originally under the name "Jewish Task Force on Media Bias".Fact|date=April 2007 Prior to that, they had a radio program. JTF currently broadcasts on QPTV, a Queens, New York public access cable TV station. They used to broadcast in Manhattan as well but they were later taken off the air.

References

External links

* [http://www.jtf.org Jewish Task Force]
* [http://www.suck.com/daily/2000/02/10/daily.html Suck interview with Vancier.]
* [http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/b/bombs_and_explosives/index.html?query=VANCIER,%20VICTOR&field=per&match=exact New York Times articles relating to a 1986 series of bombings in which Vancier participated]


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