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Gush Emunim
Gush Emunim (Bloc [of the] faithful) was an Israeli messianic, right-wing activist movement committed to establishing Jewish settlements in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights. While not formally established as an organization until 1974 in the wake of the Yom Kippur War, Gush Emunim sprang out of the conquests of the Six-Day War in 1967, encouraging Jewish settlement of the land based on the belief that, according to the Torah, God gave it to the Jewish people. While Gush Emunim no longer exists officially, vestiges of its influence remain in Israeli society.
Gush Emunim was closely associated with, and highly influential in, the National Religious Party (NRP). Nowadays they refer to themselves – and are referred to by the Israeli media as – Ne'emanei Eretz Yisrael (Hebrew: "Those who are loyal/faithful to the Land of Israel"). It also had a close relationship with the Jewish Agency.
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Matzav Blog (blog)
September 20, 2017
... of Moshe Levinger, the founder of Gush Emunim, came from the Bronx and famously brought her refrigerator and several children to settle inÃÂ ...
+972 Magazine
September 11, 2017
But there was no point; two of them, settler journalist Uri Elitzur and Gush Emunim founder Hanan Porat, have since died, while the other two,ÃÂ ...
Swarajya
September 8, 2017
According to David Newman, even the Gush Emunim could not survive entirely on its ideological platform. He writes, "the earliest settler leadersÃÂ ...
Mondoweiss
August 26, 2017
... participants today] are on the trip to Shiloh and its environs, trying to understand the roots and legacies of the Gush Emunim movement.
Milli Gazette
July 14, 2017
... made up of extreme nationalists and Talmudic fanatics (Likud and ha-Bayt ha-yehudi-present-day Gush Emunim) is too arrogant, too insolentÃÂ ...
The American Prospect
June 26, 2017
The chapter after that is set in 1975: The new Gush Emunim (Bloc of the Faithful) movement, led by Porat, Levinger, and others, led illegalÃÂ ...
The Siasat Daily
February 1, 2017
Gush Emunim is the far-right movement responsible for the settlement project in the occupied West Bank. Although it no longer exists formally,ÃÂ ...
Ha'aretz
December 1, 2011
Gush Emunim (Bloc of the Faithful ) dissolved 30 years ago, and each of its leaders went his own way. A few, such as the late Hanan Porat,ÃÂ ...
Ha'aretz
February 9, 2011
The shock waves that jolted Israel after the Yom Kippur War, and the talks on interim arrangements, including partial withdrawals from the SinaiÃÂ ...
Canadian Jewish News (blog)
March 20, 2017
Kook eventually became a spiritual leader for Gush Emunim, a right-wing activist group that the film examines in detail. Members of Gush Emunim hoped that settling in the territories would hasten the arrival of the Messiah. Some Israeli leaders, like ...
Sedona Red Rock News
March 11, 2017
On the other hand, a group called the Gush Emunim can be designated as Torah fundamentalists. The members of this movement believe in the settling of Palestinian land as a religious mandate to hasten the coming of the Messiah.
World Socialist Web Site
March 10, 2017
Others who put forward the extreme ideological and political vision of this movement in The Settlers include Benny Katzover, a founder of the Gush Emunim movement and among the founders of the Kiryat Arba settlement in Hebron, and Yehuda Etzion,ÃÂ ...
Forward
March 3, 2017
Even if you already know the history, from the preaching of Rabbi Tzvi Kook before the 1967 war, to the incremental triumphs of the Gush Emunim movement, to the politically motivated assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and beyond, the story as Dotan orders ...
The Siasat Daily
February 1, 2017
"Jewish religious references and their political representatives in the Knesset and government believe that Trump will help in fulfilling Torah prophecies and fulfil the ideological religious visions of Gush Emunim," former Israeli Minster said Haaretz.
Forward
January 15, 2017
Beit El was founded in 1977, by adherents of the Gush Emunim, or Block of the Faithful movement, who believed they were fulfilling God's promise by settling the West Bank, which Israel captured from Jordan in 1967.
Middle East Eye
January 11, 2017
The justification for the settlement was not as part of a future "land for peace" deal, as some pro-Israel commentators often generalise but because, in 1976, theocratic fundamental activists called Gush Emunim settled there. They believed that, if ...
IsraCast
December 25, 2016
Remember how Ariel Sharon even persuaded former President George W. Bush to hand over a document stipulating that the settlement blocs near Jerusalem, such as Gush Emunim, Maale Adumim, and even Ariel should remain permanently inside Israel?
Daily Times
October 23, 2016
This enterprise produced "Gush Emunim," a group devoted to resettling the West Bank with Jews, and mainstreamed a slew of "temple movement" fanatics that extended to the Israeli Knesset.
The Jewish Voice
October 11, 2016
... in Samaria, Pinchas Wallerstein, one of the leaders of Gush Emunim Movement for redeeming the Land of Israel and former head of the Binyamin Regional Council, said that the government should focus on delaying the destruction of the town of Amona.
Lawfare (blog)
September 28, 2016
In the 1970s, as minister of defense under Rabin (in his first term as prime minister), Peres was instrumental in helping the Gush Emunim movement establish its first settlements in the northern West Bank (Samaria, as Israelis often refer to it). Yet ...
Patheos (blog)
September 26, 2016
It was just four months after the war's end, for instance, that the potent settler movement Gush Emunim was formed, committed to widespread settlement over the whole land claimed for Israel.
Middle East Eye
September 6, 2016
The experiment ended when local mayors were targeted by a wave of bomb attacks from settlers in Gush Emunim. Today Fatah is disintegrating without help from Israel.
Alternative Information Center (AIC)
August 16, 2016
Thus, Gush Emunim was created, and the knitted kippa replaced the kibbutz cap of the previous generation's pioneers. As Ari Shavit writes: "a new hegemonic elite arose, and the legacy of Rabbi Zvi Yehuda succeeded to a great extent in taking over the ...
World Politics Review
August 16, 2016
This group, called Gush Emunim, or "the bloc of the faithful," transformed the very meaning of religious Zionism from Zionists who happened to be religious to a conception of Zionism and the state of Israel as divine instruments.
Huffington Post
August 6, 2016
Noticing that I was Egyptian, some members of Gush Emunim, a right-wing extremist group committed to the establishment of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights, began harassing me.
Beyond Chron
August 4, 2016
The Gush Emunim crowd cite religious destiny to justify denying land rights even to Palestinians who've lived for generations on the land.
Jweekly.com
July 21, 2016
In a calm, measured voice, Dotan interviews settlers of various backgrounds and orientations, from knowledgeable, strategic leaders of the 1970s messianic group Gush Emunim to contemporary young settlers whose Zionism is matched by their racism. DotanÃÂ ...
World Socialist Web Site
June 16, 2016
In his recent study of Rabin assassin Yigal Amir, he noted that "a large percentage of political murderers in Israel have come from the ethnic margins of Gush Emunim and of the ideological settler community." The security forces shot the attackers ...
New York Magazine
June 13, 2016
According to the book's description, Settling in the Hearts is a work of ethnography that examines Gush Emunim, a "fundamentalist religious movement [that] became a political force by constructing settlements within contested territory and is one of ...
Forward
June 9, 2016
In an article published last year titled "Rabin's Assassination and the Ethnic Margins of Gush Emunim," Feige analyzed Rabin assassin Yigal Amir through the lens of religion, ideology and ethnicity, pointing out that "a large percentage of political ...
Forward
June 9, 2016
Troen said in a statement that Feige was engaged in original research on the settlement movement and Gush Emunim, as well as on Peace Now, the use of archaeology in contemporary Israel, the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and religiousÃÂ ...
Forward
May 31, 2016
It was around this time that Orthodox Zionists, under the tutelage of Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook, veered right and created the Gush Emunim movement to establish settlements in the territories that Israel captured in the 1967 War - the West Bank and the ...
The Nation.
May 25, 2016
In 1977, the settlers arrived: Gush Emunim, the same group of religious nationalists who built Halamish. Among them was a young officer named Shaul Mofaz who would later become the IDF's chief of staff, and after that the minister of defense.
Asian Tribune
May 21, 2016
But now it belongs to Amana, the development arm of the Gush Emunim settlement movement, which has been integral to Israeli colonization of many parts of the occupied West Bank.
Middle East Eye
May 21, 2016
Amana was formed as an offshoot of the messianic Zionist movement Gush Emunim and is run by Ze'ev Hever, a convicted terrorist.
Mondoweiss
May 4, 2016
Followers of his son, Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook, established Gush Emunim (Bloc of the Faithful), the political settler movement.
CounterPunch
February 12, 2016
Over the years, the strategic settlement growth was complemented by the religiously motivated expansion, championed by a vibrant movement, and exemplified in the finding of Gush Emunim (Bloc of the Faithful) in 1974. The movement was on a mission toÃÂ ...
Jewish Journal
February 10, 2016
The late Ori Elizur, one of the Gush Emunim leaders, tried to convince the Israeli public that it was possible to give citizenship to the Palestinians in the West Bank because there were fewer of them than most people thought.
RT
February 2, 2016
Al-Watan is a firm that operates under Amana, a settlement-building arm of the right-wing activist movement Gush Emunim. The investigation alleges that officials from Al-Watan would state they had purchased land from the owners who were Palestinian.
MWC News
January 31, 2016
An estimated 80 000 of them are ideologically driven. Back in 1974, the late Yitzhak Rabin called the settlement movement Gush Emunim a "cancer in the democratic fabric of the State of Israel", yet all Israeli governments expedited the building of ...
Haaretz
January 30, 2016
He starts with the leaders of Gush Emunim, the ideological movement that, influenced by the teachings of Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook, believed that the 1967 war heralded divine redemption and that settling the newly conquered territory would help usher in ...
Jewish Journal
January 29, 2016
He starts with the leaders of Gush Emunim, the ideological movement that, influenced by the teachings of Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook, believed that the 1967 war heralded divine redemption and that settling the newly conquered territory would help usher in ...
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