Rabbi Meir Kahane debates Alan Dershowitz. November 11, 1984. Original with English subtitles.

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1949 and professor dershowitz in 1953. so the format of the debate tonight each debater will have about seven minutes if they want for opening comments then we'll have seven rounds of questions the first person who's asked the question we'll have four minutes to answer and the other debater will have two minutes to respond and there'll be two questions to each round and then we'll have closing comments and questions from have closing comments and questions from the audience so obviously i cannot think of everything although i'd like to think that i can think of everything so i hope you people will think of the questions that i don't have rabbi mayor kahane is perhaps the most well-known jewish leader in the world and certainly the most controversial his fans started in 1968 when he organized the jewish defense league which became notorious for its militant activities against the soviet union as well as for its self-defense patrols in well as for its self-defense patrols in the inner city which were meant to protect poor and elderly jews arrested many times for his beliefs and convictions at one point he served 11 months in a federal prison and naturally in prison he agitated for and won kosher quote rights for all inmates behind bars who happened to be jewish in 1971 rabbi kahane fulfilled his jewish obligation of living in israel by making aliyah rabbi tahani formed his own political party called kaf which means thus and now he lost his

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