Meir Kahane speaking at UCLA 4/5/1971

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you just two weeks ago in Washington Jews sat down on the streets and went to jail now Washington has seen protests in the past and there have been many many Jews that have gone to Washington in the past to protest Washington in the past to protest for a great many things and what makes this protest different from all other protests the strange thing about this protest was that Jews went to Washington two weeks ago to protest and go to jail for Jews and the Messiah will yet come come and it's important for each and everyone here that was not in Washington and didn't go to jail to understand why what happened why this thing happened and something about the incidents that took place on a day which I believe was one of the great days in the history of Jews of this country country to begin with the sight of 5,000 Jews sitting down in the streets stretching from K and 16th streets down to Lafayette Park in the shadow of Mr Nixon's home and singing Isel and not moving when order to get up and sitting and as each cop came up and sitting and as each cop came over and touched each young young Jew and said you're under arrest and his Jew got up and again shouted never again and walked to the police buses and as the buses filled up from inside came the chance of bring more buses in the sight of one particular buses in the sight of one particular family a father a mother and four children getting arrested and it's quite true the family that gets busted together stays together it was a tremendous sight and I don't know who had Greater Joy in great anas the parents or their children and I do know one thing that those children who went to jail with

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