Baruch Marzel

Biography

Baruch Marzel is a prominent member of the Jewish community in Hebron. He served as parliamentary aide to Meir Kahane in the 1980s when the Kach party was elected to the Knesset. Since then he has lived in Hebron.

After the assassination of Meir Kahane in 1990, Marzel was elected as the leader of Kach party, for nearly five years until the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre that was carried out by the Jewish terrorist Baruch Goldstein took place in 1994, at which point the organisation was banned by the Israeli government and later blacklisted by the U.S. Government.

Baruch joined Kahane's Jewish Defense League at the age of 13 and began promoting the extremist beliefs of the assassinated Rabbi Meir Kahane. He was later considered as Meir Kahane’s right-hand man in Israel and was described as an “extreme right-wing activist” by the Israeli press.

In 2004, he founded the Jewish National Front, and headed its Knesset list in the 2006 elections.

Lately, Marzel is serving as a political activist and a figurehead of the Jewish radical party, Otzma Yehudit, a sectarian, Kahanist political party that calls for the eradication of Arabs from the Holy Land.

Evidence of Hate Speech/Incitement:

June 2021: In an article published by Jewish Currents website, Baruch Marzel, among other far-right extremist figureheads as Bentzi Gopstein, co-arranged the Flag Parade in Jerusalem, leading a crowd of several hundred far-right Jewish demonstrators marched from the city center toward the Damascus Gate, at the entrance to the Old City, while chanting “death to the Arabs” and “may your village burn.”

June 2021: In a tweet, Marzel incited against a Palestinian parade in Tel Aviv in support for Gaza, stating: “While there is a discussion on whether to approve the parade of Israeli flags in our capital Jerusalem, the parade of terrorist flags is taking place in Tel Aviv. shame”.

July 2019: Marzel openly advocated the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. “There’s no way we’ll have quiet or peace inside Israel as long as we have here millions of supporters of terror, people that believe in their religion that all of the Land of Israel … is theirs, and that we’re occupiers, and the Jews have no right to a state or can even exist here,” he said. “The only way to have peace is to get them out of Israel.”

February 2016: In the short film, “The Radical Jew”- recounting the life of the terrorist leader Baruch Goldstein, Marzel referred to Goldstein as “one of the purest people in the world, he was a saint, he was a tzaddik”, claiming that after Goldstein’s attack, not a single Jew was hurt by terrorist attacks in Hebron for four consecutive years.