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Baruch Goldstein
Baruch Goldstein
Born	Benjamin Carl Goldstein; December 9, 1956; Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Died	February 25, 1994 (aged 37); Cave of the Patriarchs, Hebron, Israeli-occupied West Bank
Cause of death	Beating
Alma mater	Yeshiva University; Albert Einstein College;
Occupation	Physician
Known for	Cave of the Patriarchs massacre
Motive	Anti-Palestinian racism, Zionist extremism
Details
Date	February 25, 1994
Location(s)	West Bank
Killed	29
Injured	125
Weapon	IMI Galil

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Baruch Kopel Goldstein (Hebrew: ברוך קאפל גולדשטיין; born Benjamin Carl Goldstein;^[2] December 9, 1956 – February 25, 1994) was an American-Israeli mass murderer, religious extremist, and physician who perpetrated the 1994 Cave of the Patriarchs massacre in Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, an incident of Jewish terrorism.^[3]^[4]^[5] Goldstein was a supporter of Kach, a religious Zionist party that the United States, the European Union and other countries designate as a terrorist organization.^[6]

Born in 1956 in Brooklyn, New York, to an Orthodox Jewish family, Goldstein received his education there, starting with Jewish scripture studies, and eventually studying medicine at Yeshiva University. In the United States, he was a member of the Jewish Defense League (JDL), a militant Jewish organization founded by his boyhood acquaintance Meir Kahane. In 1983, Goldstein immigrated to Israel, and served as a physician in the Israeli military, during which he refused to treat Arabs, including those serving as soldiers. Later, he worked as a physician, and lived in the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba near Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Goldstein was active in Kahane's Kach party, and was third on the party list for the Knesset during the 1984 elections.

On February 25, 1994, Goldstein dressed in an Israeli military uniform, entered a mosque in the Cave of the Patriarchs and opened fire on the 800 Palestinian Muslim worshippers praying there during the month of Ramadan, killing 29 and wounding 125 worshippers, until he was beaten to death by survivors.^[7]^[8]^[9]

Goldstein's gravesite became a pilgrimage site for Jewish extremists.^[10] The following words are inscribed on the tomb: "He gave his life for the people of Israel, its Torah and land."^[9] In 1999, after the passing of Israeli legislation outlawing monuments to terrorists, the Israeli Army dismantled the shrine that had been built to Goldstein at the site of his interment. The tombstone and its epitaph, calling Goldstein a martyr with clean hands and a pure heart, was left untouched.^[11] After the flagstones around it were pried away under the eye of a military chaplain, the ground was covered with gravel.

Early life and education

Goldstein was born on December 9, 1956, as Benjamin Goldstein in Brooklyn, New York, to an Orthodox Jewish family. He attended the Yeshiva of Flatbush religious day school. He studied medicine at Yeshiva University,^[12] receiving a medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He belonged to the Jewish Defense League (JDL), a militant Jewish organization founded by his boyhood acquaintance Meir Kahane.^[13]

Immigration to Israel

Goldstein immigrated to Israel in 1983.^[1] He served as a physician in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), first as a conscript, then in the reserve forces. Following the end of his active duty, Goldstein worked as a physician, and lived in the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba near Hebron, where he worked as an emergency doctor, and was involved in treating victims of Arab-Israeli violence.^[14] He changed his name from Benjamin to Baruch, married a Soviet immigrant named Miriam,^[15] and had four children. Israeli press reports claimed that Goldstein refused to treat Arabs, even Arab soldiers serving in the IDF, believing it was against Jewish laws to treat non-Jews even for payment.^[16]^[17] This was also reflected in comments by his acquaintances.^[18] Goldstein was active in Kahane's Kach party, and was third on the party list for the Knesset during the 1984 elections.^[19] He compared Israel's democracy to the Nazi regime, and often wore a yellow star with the word JUDE on it.^[20]

Massacre

On February 25, 1994, that year's Purim day, Goldstein entered a room in the Cave of the Patriarchs that was serving as a mosque, wearing an Israeli army uniform "with the insignia of rank, creating the image of a reserve officer on active duty".^[7]^[21] He then opened fire, killing 29 worshippers and wounding more than 125.^[22] Mosque guard Mohammad Suleiman Abu Saleh said he thought that Goldstein was trying to kill as many people as possible, and described how there were "bodies and blood everywhere".^[23] Eventually, Goldstein was overcome and beaten to death by survivors of the massacre.^[24] According to Ian Lustick, "By mowing down Arabs he believed wanted to kill Jews, Goldstein was re-enacting part of the Purim story."^[25]

Palestinian protests and riots immediately followed the shooting; in the following week, twenty-five Palestinians were killed (by the Israel Defense Forces), as well as five Israelis.^[8] Following the riots, the Israeli government imposed a two-week curfew on the 120,000 Palestinian residents of Hebron. The 400 Jewish settlers of H2 were free to move around.^[26] Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin telephoned Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) leader Yasser Arafat, and described the attack as a "loathsome, criminal act of murder".^[23] In an address to the Knesset, Rabin, addressing not just Goldstein and his legacy but also other militant settlers, stated:

"You are not part of the community of Israel ... You are not part of the national democratic camp which we all belong to in this house, and many of the people despise you. You are not partners in the Zionist enterprise. You are a foreign implant. You are an errant weed. Sensible Judaism spits you out. You placed yourself outside the wall of Jewish law ... We say to this horrible man and those like him: you are a shame on Zionism and an embarrassment to Judaism."

The Israeli government condemned the massacre, and responded by arresting followers of Meir Kahane, forbidding certain settlers from entering Arab towns, and demanding that those settlers turn in their army-issued rifles, though rejecting a PLO demand that settlers be disarmed and that an international force be created to protect Palestinians.^[27] Goldstein was immediately "denounced with shocked horror even by the mainstream Orthodox",^[28] and many in Israel classified Goldstein as insane.^[29]

Gravesite and shrine

Israeli military authorities refused to allow Goldstein to be buried in the Jewish cemetery in Hebron.^[30] He was buried opposite the Meir Kahane Memorial Park in Kiryat Arba, a Jewish settlement adjacent to Hebron. The park is named in memory of Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the Israeli far-right political party Kach, a group classified by the United States and Israeli governments as a terrorist group. Goldstein was a long-time devotee of Kahane.^[1]

The gravesite has become a pilgrimage site for Jewish extremists; a plaque near the grave reads, "To the holy Baruch Goldstein, who gave his life for the Jewish people, the Torah, and the nation of Israel". According to Baruch Marzel, about 10,000 people had visited the grave by the year 2000.^[10] In 1996, members of the Labor Party called for the shrine-like landscaped prayer area near the grave to be removed, and Israeli security officials expressed concern that the grave would encourage extremists.^[31] In 1999, following passage of a law designed to prohibit monuments to terrorists, and an associated Supreme Court ruling, the Israeli Army bulldozed the shrine and prayer area set up near Goldstein's grave.^[32] As of 2014, a new tomb has been built, and still receives visits from Jewish pilgrims.^[9]

Veneration by extremists

While mainstream Jewish religious leaders, including the chief rabbis of Israel, rejected the suggestion that killing Palestinians was authorized by the Torah, some extremist religious Jews have defended Goldstein's actions.^[33]

At Goldstein's funeral, Rabbi Yaacov Perrin claimed that even one million Arabs are "not worth a Jewish fingernail".^[33]^[34]^[35] Samuel Hacohen, a teacher at a Jerusalem college, declared Goldstein the "greatest Jew alive, not in one way, but in every way", and said that he was "the only one who could do it, the only one who was 100 percent perfect".^[34]^[35] Rabbi Dov Lior of Kiryat Arba declared that Goldstein was "holier than all the martyrs of the Holocaust".^[36]

In the weeks following the massacre, hundreds of Israelis traveled to Goldstein's grave to celebrate Goldstein's actions. Some Hasidim danced and sang around his grave.^[37] According to one visitor to the gravesite in the wake of the attacks, "If [Goldstein] stopped these so-called peace talks, then he is truly holy because this is not real peace."^[37] Some visitors declared Goldstein a "saint" and "hero of Israel".^[37]

The phenomenon of the veneration of Goldstein's tomb persisted for years.^[10] Even after the dismantling of Goldstein's shrine in 1999, radical Jewish settlers continued to celebrate the anniversary of the massacre in the West Bank, sometimes even dressing up themselves or their children to look like Goldstein.^[10]^[38]^[39]^[40]

In 2010, Jewish settlers sang songs in praise of Baruch Goldstein's massacre demonstratively in front of their Arab neighbours, during celebrations of Purim. A phrase from one song reads, "Dr. Goldstein, there is none other like you in the world. Dr. Goldstein, we all love you ... He aimed at terrorists' heads, squeezed the trigger hard, and shot bullets, and shot, and shot."^[41]

Prior to entering the Knesset, Otzma Yehudit party leader and current Israeli Minister for National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir displayed a portrait of Goldstein in his living room. It was removed when Ben-Gvir entered politics.^[42]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Lacayo, Richard; Beyer, Lisa; Calabresi, Massimo; and Silver, Eric (March 7, 1994). "The Making of a Murderous Fanatic". Time. Archived from the original on February 10, 2009. Retrieved October 19, 2009.
^ Martin, Gus (2011), "Goldstein, Baruch (1957–1994)", The SAGE Encyclopedia of Terrorism (2 ed.), Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., p. 233, doi:10.4135/9781412980173, ISBN 9781412980166
^ Israel and the Politics of Jewish Identity: The Secular-Religious Impasse. By Asher Cohen, Bernard Susser. p.59
^ "CIA paper cites Jewish acts of terrorism" Archived August 29, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, JTA, August 26, 2010
^ Kutler, Hillel. "US report cites increase in terrorism deaths in Israel", Jerusalem Post, April 30, 1995
^ "COUNCIL COMMON POSITION 2009/67/CFSP". Official Journal of the European Union. European Union. January 26, 2009. p. L 23/41.
^ ^a ^b "1994: Jewish settler kills 30 at holy site". BBC. February 25, 1994. Retrieved January 1, 2023.
^ ^a ^b The Middle East Journal. "Chronology", vol 48, no 3 (Summer 1994) p. 511 ff.
^ ^a ^b ^c Waldman, Ayelet (June 12, 2014). "The Shame of Shuhada Street". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on November 16, 2017. Retrieved March 5, 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Graveside party celebrates Hebron massacre". BBC News. March 21, 2000. Archived from the original on August 1, 2009. Retrieved October 19, 2009.
^ GreenBerg, Joel. "Israel destroys shrine to mosque gunman" Archived August 14, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, December 30, 1999, The New York Times.
^ Precker, Michael. "Brooklyn's image as extremist hotbed disputed by some Borough defenders say ties to Israel cherished, but radical groups aren't", The Dallas Morning News, March 20, 1994. Accessed August 6, 2007. "'This is not what we are teaching,' said Rabbi David Eliach, principal at the Yeshiva of Flatbush, where Dr. Goldstein attended high school."
^ BBC News Archived July 6, 2017, at the Wayback Machine "Goldstein had been a member of the Jewish Defense League."
^ BBC News Archived July 6, 2017, at the Wayback Machine "Goldstein had lived in Israel for 11 years and was a doctor in the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba, just outside Hebron." "As the settlement's main emergency doctor, he was involved in treating victims of Arab-Israeli violence."
^ "Life in Hebron's cage of security". Christian Science Monitor. November 30, 1994. Archived from the original on February 19, 2018. Retrieved February 18, 2018.
^ Gurvitz, Yossi (April 8, 2012). "Jewish soldiers refuse to share Seder table with Druze comrades". +972 Magazine. Archived from the original on November 17, 2012. Retrieved September 10, 2012.
^ Israel Shahak, Norton Mezvinsky, Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel. (1999) 2nd edition Pluto Press 2004 p.96.
^ Mass-mediated Terrorism Archived August 14, 2014, at the Wayback Machine Brigitte Lebens Nacos, Rowman & Littlefield, 2002
^ "Brother Against Brother" Archived June 28, 2014, at the Wayback Machine By Ehud Sprinzak pg. 242
^ Ami Pedahzur, Arie Perliger. Jewish Terrorism in Israel. Columbia University Press, 2011. p.71.
^ "Commission of Inquiry- Massacre at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron-26-Jun-94". Ministry of Foreign Affairs. June 26, 1994. Archived from the original on January 12, 2013. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
^ "Settlers remember gunman Goldstein; Hebron riots continue". Issacharoff, Avi. Haaretz. March 1, 2010.
^ ^a ^b "On This Day 1994: Jewish settler kills 30 at holy site" Archived July 6, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, February 25, 2005, BBC News.
^ Church, George J.; Beyer, Lisa; Hamad, Jamil; Fischer, Dean; and McAllister, J.F.O. (March 7, 1994). "When Fury Rules". Time. Archived from the original on December 14, 2011. Retrieved July 24, 2011.
^ Ian Lustick. For The Land and The Lord, Council on Foreign Relations (1988) 2nd ed., 1994, Preface
^ Aditi, Bhaduri (May 21, 2006). "Fabled town, divided and bruised". The Hindu. Archived from the original on February 28, 2011. Retrieved October 19, 2009. Still fresh in the memory of almost all the inhabitants was the Goldstein case of 1994, when a two-week curfew was imposed on the 1,20,000 [sic] Palestinian residents of the city, but not on the 400 Jewish settlers of H2.
^ Haberman, Clyde (March 3, 1994). "West Bank Massacre; Israel Eases Curfew in Territories; Ensuing Riots Deepen Pessimism". The New York Times. p. A1. Archived from the original on July 16, 2014. Retrieved October 19, 2009. Faced with rage in the territories and its own revulsion over the Hebron massacre, the P.L.O. has dug in on its demands that all settlers be disarmed and that an international force be created to protect Palestinians. Mr. Rabin has said no to both demands. But he [Rabin] has imposed tougher measures against a relatively small number of the most militant settlers, which, while far from what the Palestinians want, represents a significant shift for the Government. Several days after ordering the arrest of five people faithful to the anti-Arab preaching of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, the army began today to carry out other measures, telling 18 settlers to stay out of Arab towns and to turn in their army-issued rifles.
^ Brekke, Torkel. The Ethics of War in Asian Civilizations: A Comparative Perspective. Routledge, 2006, p. 44.
^ Wilson, Rodney. 2007. "Review Article: Islam and Terrorism". British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 34 (2): 203–213. (accessed August 29, 2010).
^ "Supreme court decision". Archived from the original on December 27, 2014.
^ "Goldstein's grave draws extremists" Archived September 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, November 22, 1996.
^ "Israel removes shrine to mosque murderer", CNN, December 29, 1999. Archived November 14, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
^ ^a ^b Kraft, Scott (February 28, 1994). "Extremists Pay Tribute to Killer of 48 at Funeral". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 17, 2020.
^ ^a ^b Brownfeld, Allan C. (March 1999). "Growing Intolerance Threatens the Humane Jewish Tradition". Washington Report on Middle East Affairs: 84–89. Retrieved April 11, 2011.
^ ^a ^b Qureshi, Emran; Sells, Michael Anthony (2003). The new crusades: constructing the Muslim enemy. Columbia University Press. p. 129. ISBN 978-0-231-12667-0.
^ Rachlevsky, Sefi. "Ruth Calderon in the wonderland of mutilated Israeli ideology" Archived April 10, 2013, at the Wayback Machine at Haaretz, April 10, 2013
^ ^a ^b ^c Haberman, Clyde. "Hundreds Of Jews Gather To Honor Hebron killer" Archived February 18, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, April 1, 1994, The New York Times.
^ Bouckaert, Peter. Center of the Storm: a case study of human rights abuses in Hebron District Archived January 3, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, 2001, page 82.
^ Horowitz, Elliott. Reckless Rites: Purim and the Legacy of Jewish Violence Archived September 5, 2015, at the Wayback Machine pp. 8, Princeton University Press
^ Purim Party Sparks MKs Protests Archived September 24, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, Haaretz, March 19, 2003
^ Medzini, Ronen (March 4, 2010). "Sheikh Jarrah Jews praise Baruch Goldstein on Purim". Ynetnews. Archived from the original on October 4, 2010. Retrieved August 26, 2010.
^ "Israel's far-right leader Ben-Gvir wins adoring young fans". France24.com. October 27, 2022. Retrieved November 2, 2022.

External links

[Time-1] Lacayo, Richard; Beyer, Lisa; Calabresi, Massimo; and Silver, Eric (March 7, 1994). "The Making of a Murderous Fanatic". Time. Archived from the original on February 10, 2009. Retrieved October 19, 2009.

[2] Martin, Gus (2011), "Goldstein, Baruch (1957–1994)", The SAGE Encyclopedia of Terrorism (2 ed.), Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., p. 233, doi:10.4135/9781412980173, ISBN 9781412980166

[3] Israel and the Politics of Jewish Identity: The Secular-Religious Impasse. By Asher Cohen, Bernard Susser. p.59

[4] "CIA paper cites Jewish acts of terrorism" Archived August 29, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, JTA, August 26, 2010

[5] Kutler, Hillel. "US report cites increase in terrorism deaths in Israel", Jerusalem Post, April 30, 1995

[eu-2009/67/CFSP-6] "COUNCIL COMMON POSITION 2009/67/CFSP". Official Journal of the European Union. European Union. January 26, 2009. p. L 23/41.

[BBC-7] "1994: Jewish settler kills 30 at holy site". BBC. February 25, 1994. Retrieved January 1, 2023.

[mej-8] The Middle East Journal. "Chronology", vol 48, no 3 (Summer 1994) p. 511 ff.

[shame-9] Waldman, Ayelet (June 12, 2014). "The Shame of Shuhada Street". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on November 16, 2017. Retrieved March 5, 2017.

[Party-10] "Graveside party celebrates Hebron massacre". BBC News. March 21, 2000. Archived from the original on August 1, 2009. Retrieved October 19, 2009.

[dismantle-11] GreenBerg, Joel. "Israel destroys shrine to mosque gunman" Archived August 14, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, December 30, 1999, The New York Times.

[12] Precker, Michael. "Brooklyn's image as extremist hotbed disputed by some Borough defenders say ties to Israel cherished, but radical groups aren't", The Dallas Morning News, March 20, 1994. Accessed August 6, 2007. "'This is not what we are teaching,' said Rabbi David Eliach, principal at the Yeshiva of Flatbush, where Dr. Goldstein attended high school."

[13] BBC News Archived July 6, 2017, at the Wayback Machine "Goldstein had been a member of the Jewish Defense League."

[14] BBC News Archived July 6, 2017, at the Wayback Machine "Goldstein had lived in Israel for 11 years and was a doctor in the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba, just outside Hebron." "As the settlement's main emergency doctor, he was involved in treating victims of Arab-Israeli violence."

[15] "Life in Hebron's cage of security". Christian Science Monitor. November 30, 1994. Archived from the original on February 19, 2018. Retrieved February 18, 2018.

[16] Gurvitz, Yossi (April 8, 2012). "Jewish soldiers refuse to share Seder table with Druze comrades". +972 Magazine. Archived from the original on November 17, 2012. Retrieved September 10, 2012.

[17] Israel Shahak, Norton Mezvinsky, Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel. (1999) 2nd edition Pluto Press 2004 p.96.

[18] Mass-mediated Terrorism Archived August 14, 2014, at the Wayback Machine Brigitte Lebens Nacos, Rowman & Littlefield, 2002

[19] "Brother Against Brother" Archived June 28, 2014, at the Wayback Machine By Ehud Sprinzak pg. 242

[20] Ami Pedahzur, Arie Perliger. Jewish Terrorism in Israel. Columbia University Press, 2011. p.71.

[21] "Commission of Inquiry- Massacre at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron-26-Jun-94". Ministry of Foreign Affairs. June 26, 1994. Archived from the original on January 12, 2013. Retrieved August 1, 2013.

[haaretz_Issacharoff-22] "Settlers remember gunman Goldstein; Hebron riots continue". Issacharoff, Avi. Haaretz. March 1, 2010.

[BBC20050225-23] "On This Day 1994: Jewish settler kills 30 at holy site" Archived July 6, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, February 25, 2005, BBC News.

[Time19940307-24] Church, George J.; Beyer, Lisa; Hamad, Jamil; Fischer, Dean; and McAllister, J.F.O. (March 7, 1994). "When Fury Rules". Time. Archived from the original on December 14, 2011. Retrieved July 24, 2011.

[25] Ian Lustick. For The Land and The Lord, Council on Foreign Relations (1988) 2nd ed., 1994, Preface

[Hindu-26] Aditi, Bhaduri (May 21, 2006). "Fabled town, divided and bruised". The Hindu. Archived from the original on February 28, 2011. Retrieved October 19, 2009. Still fresh in the memory of almost all the inhabitants was the Goldstein case of 1994, when a two-week curfew was imposed on the 1,20,000 [sic] Palestinian residents of the city, but not on the 400 Jewish settlers of H2.

[NYT_Haberman-27] Haberman, Clyde (March 3, 1994). "West Bank Massacre; Israel Eases Curfew in Territories; Ensuing Riots Deepen Pessimism". The New York Times. p. A1. Archived from the original on July 16, 2014. Retrieved October 19, 2009. Faced with rage in the territories and its own revulsion over the Hebron massacre, the P.L.O. has dug in on its demands that all settlers be disarmed and that an international force be created to protect Palestinians. Mr. Rabin has said no to both demands. But he [Rabin] has imposed tougher measures against a relatively small number of the most militant settlers, which, while far from what the Palestinians want, represents a significant shift for the Government. Several days after ordering the arrest of five people faithful to the anti-Arab preaching of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, the army began today to carry out other measures, telling 18 settlers to stay out of Arab towns and to turn in their army-issued rifles.

[ethics-28] Brekke, Torkel. The Ethics of War in Asian Civilizations: A Comparative Perspective. Routledge, 2006, p. 44.

[wilson-29] Wilson, Rodney. 2007. "Review Article: Islam and Terrorism". British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 34 (2): 203–213. (accessed August 29, 2010).

[30] "Supreme court decision". Archived from the original on December 27, 2014.

[31] "Goldstein's grave draws extremists" Archived September 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, November 22, 1996.

[32] "Israel removes shrine to mosque murderer", CNN, December 29, 1999. Archived November 14, 2005, at the Wayback Machine

[LATimes-022894-33] Kraft, Scott (February 28, 1994). "Extremists Pay Tribute to Killer of 48 at Funeral". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 17, 2020.

[wrmea-0399-34] Brownfeld, Allan C. (March 1999). "Growing Intolerance Threatens the Humane Jewish Tradition". Washington Report on Middle East Affairs: 84–89. Retrieved April 11, 2011.

[TheNewCrusades-35] Qureshi, Emran; Sells, Michael Anthony (2003). The new crusades: constructing the Muslim enemy. Columbia University Press. p. 129. ISBN 978-0-231-12667-0.

[36] Rachlevsky, Sefi. "Ruth Calderon in the wonderland of mutilated Israeli ideology" Archived April 10, 2013, at the Wayback Machine at Haaretz, April 10, 2013

[nyt-37] Haberman, Clyde. "Hundreds Of Jews Gather To Honor Hebron killer" Archived February 18, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, April 1, 1994, The New York Times.

[bou-38] Bouckaert, Peter. Center of the Storm: a case study of human rights abuses in Hebron District Archived January 3, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, 2001, page 82.

[39] Horowitz, Elliott. Reckless Rites: Purim and the Legacy of Jewish Violence Archived September 5, 2015, at the Wayback Machine pp. 8, Princeton University Press

[40] Purim Party Sparks MKs Protests Archived September 24, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, Haaretz, March 19, 2003

[41] Medzini, Ronen (March 4, 2010). "Sheikh Jarrah Jews praise Baruch Goldstein on Purim". Ynetnews. Archived from the original on October 4, 2010. Retrieved August 26, 2010.

[42] "Israel's far-right leader Ben-Gvir wins adoring young fans". France24.com. October 27, 2022. Retrieved November 2, 2022.

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-'''Baruch Kopel Goldstein''' ({{lang-he|ברוך קופל גולדשטיין}}; born '''Benjamin Carl Goldstein''';<ref>{{Citation |last=Martin |first=Gus |title=Goldstein, Baruch (1957–1994) |date=2011 |encyclopedia=The SAGE Encyclopedia of Terrorism |pages=233 |edition=2 |place=Thousand Oaks |publisher=SAGE Publications, Inc. |doi=10.4135/9781412980173 |isbn=9781412980166 |doi-access=free }}</ref> December 9, 1956 – February 25, 1994) was an [[Israeli-American]] mass murderer, religious extremist, and physician who perpetrated the 1994 [[Jewish religious terrorism|terrorist attack]] on a mosque attended by Palestinians, known as the [[Cave of the Patriarchs massacre]] in [[Hebron]] in the [[Israeli occupied territories|Israeli-occupied]] [[West Bank]].<ref>''Israel and the Politics of Jewish Identity: The Secular-Religious Impasse''. By Asher Cohen, Bernard Susser. p.59</ref><ref>[http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/08/26/2740644/cia-paper-cites-jewish-acts-of-terrorism "CIA paper cites Jewish acts of terrorism"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100829082156/http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/08/26/2740644/cia-paper-cites-jewish-acts-of-terrorism |date=2010-08-29 }}, JTA, 26 August 2010</ref><ref>Hillel Kutler, [https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/62534564.html?dids=62534564:62534564&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Apr+30%2C+1995&author=HILLEL+KUTTLER%3B+WASHINGTON&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=US+report+cites+increase+in+terrorism+deaths+in+Israel&pqatl=google "US report cites increase in terrorism deaths in Israel"], ''Jerusalem Post'', 30 April 1995</ref> Goldstein was a supporter of the [[Kach (political party)|Kach]], a [[religious Zionist]] party that the [[United States]], the [[European Union]] and other countries designate as a terrorist organization.<ref name="eu-2009/67/CFSP">{{cite web|title=COUNCIL COMMON POSITION 2009/67/CFSP|url=http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:023:0037:0042:EN:PDF|work=Official Journal of the European Union|publisher=European Union|page=L 23/41|date=26 January 2009}}</ref>
+'''Baruch Kopel Goldstein''' ({{langx|he|ברוך קאפל גולדשטיין}}; born '''Benjamin Carl Goldstein''';<ref>{{Citation |last=Martin |first=Gus |title=Goldstein, Baruch (1957–1994) |date=2011 |encyclopedia=The SAGE Encyclopedia of Terrorism |pages=233 |edition=2 |place=Thousand Oaks |publisher=SAGE Publications, Inc. |doi=10.4135/9781412980173 |isbn=9781412980166 |doi-access=free }}</ref> December 9, 1956 – February 25, 1994) was an [[Americans|American]]-[[Israelis|Israeli]] mass murderer, religious extremist, and physician who perpetrated the 1994 [[Cave of the Patriarchs massacre]] in [[Hebron]] in the [[Israeli-occupied territories|Israeli-occupied]] [[West Bank]], an incident of [[Zionist political violence|Jewish terrorism]].<ref>''Israel and the Politics of Jewish Identity: The Secular-Religious Impasse''. By Asher Cohen, Bernard Susser. p.59</ref><ref>[http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/08/26/2740644/cia-paper-cites-jewish-acts-of-terrorism "CIA paper cites Jewish acts of terrorism"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100829082156/http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/08/26/2740644/cia-paper-cites-jewish-acts-of-terrorism |date=August 29, 2010 }}, JTA, August 26, 2010</ref><ref>Kutler, Hillel. [https://archive.today/20130201051912/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/62534564.html?dids=62534564:62534564&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Apr+30,+1995&author=HILLEL+KUTTLER;+WASHINGTON&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=US+report+cites+increase+in+terrorism+deaths+in+Israel&pqatl=google "US report cites increase in terrorism deaths in Israel"], ''Jerusalem Post'', April 30, 1995</ref> Goldstein was a supporter of [[Kach (political party)|Kach]], a [[religious Zionist]] party that the [[United States]], the [[European Union]] and other countries designate as a terrorist organization.<ref name="eu-2009/67/CFSP">{{cite web|title=COUNCIL COMMON POSITION 2009/67/CFSP|url=http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:023:0037:0042:EN:PDF|work=Official Journal of the European Union|publisher=European Union|page=L 23/41|date=January 26, 2009}}</ref>
+Born in 1956 in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York (state)|New York]], to an [[Orthodox Jewish]] family, Goldstein received his education there, starting with Jewish scripture studies, and eventually studying medicine at [[Yeshiva University]]. In the United States, he was a member of the [[Jewish Defense League]] (JDL), a militant Jewish organization founded by his boyhood acquaintance [[Meir Kahane]]. In 1983, Goldstein immigrated to Israel, and served as a physician in the [[Israeli military]], during which he refused to treat Arabs, including those serving as soldiers. Later, he worked as a physician, and lived in the [[Israeli settlement]] of [[Kiryat Arba]] near [[Hebron]] in the [[Israeli-occupied territories|Israeli-occupied]] [[West Bank]]. Goldstein was active in Kahane's Kach party, and was third on the party list for the Knesset during the 1984 elections.
-On February 25, 1994, Goldstein, a resident of the [[International law and Israeli settlements|illegal]] [[Israeli settlement]] of [[Kiryat Arba]] near Hebron, entered a room in the [[Cave of the Patriarchs]] that was serving as a mosque. Dressed in Israeli military uniform, he opened fire on the 800 Palestinian Muslim worshippers praying during the month of [[Ramadan]], killing 29 and wounding 125&nbsp;worshippers, until he was beaten to death by survivors.<ref name=BBC/>
-Following the massacre, Jewish Israelis were barred from entering major Arab communities in Hebron. The Israeli government also took extreme measures against Palestinians following the deadly riots after the massacre,<ref name="mej">''The Middle East Journal''. "Chronology", vol 48, no 3 (Summer 1994) p. 511 ff.</ref> expelling them from certain streets near Jewish settlements in Hebron, such as [[Al-Shuhada Street]], where many Palestinians had homes and businesses, and allowing access exclusively to Jewish Israelis and foreign tourists.<ref name=shame>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/the-shame-of-shuhada-street-hebron/372639/|title=The Shame of Shuhada Street|author=Ayelet Waldman|magazine=[[The Atlantic]]|year=2014|access-date=2017-03-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171116214651/https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/the-shame-of-shuhada-street-hebron/372639/|archive-date=2017-11-16|url-status=live}}</ref>
+On February 25, 1994, Goldstein dressed in an Israeli military uniform, entered a mosque in the [[Cave of the Patriarchs]] and opened fire on the 800 Palestinian Muslim worshippers praying there during the month of [[Ramadan]], killing 29 and wounding 125&nbsp;worshippers, until he was beaten to death by survivors.<ref name=BBC/><ref name="mej">''The Middle East Journal''. "Chronology", vol 48, no 3 (Summer 1994) p. 511 ff.</ref><ref name="shame">{{cite magazine |last=Waldman |first=Ayelet |date=June 12, 2014 |title=The Shame of Shuhada Street |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/the-shame-of-shuhada-street-hebron/372639/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171116214651/https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/the-shame-of-shuhada-street-hebron/372639/ |archive-date=November 16, 2017 |access-date=March 5, 2017 |magazine=[[The Atlantic]]}}</ref>
+Goldstein's gravesite became a pilgrimage site for Jewish extremists.<ref name="Party"/> The following words are inscribed on the tomb: "He gave his life for the people of Israel, its Torah and land."<ref name=shame/> In 1999, after the passing of Israeli legislation outlawing monuments to terrorists, the Israeli Army dismantled the shrine that had been built to Goldstein at the site of his interment. The tombstone and its epitaph, calling Goldstein a martyr with clean hands and a pure heart, was left untouched.<ref name=dismantle>GreenBerg, Joel. [https://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/30/world/israel-destroys-shrine-to-mosque-gunman.html "Israel destroys shrine to mosque gunman"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170814222703/http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/30/world/israel-destroys-shrine-to-mosque-gunman.html |date=August 14, 2017 }}, December 30, 1999, ''The New York Times''.</ref> After the [[flagstone]]s around it were pried away under the eye of a military chaplain, the ground was covered with gravel.
-The international community and the Israeli government condemned the massacre. Israel arrested followers of [[Meir Kahane]], criminalized the [[Kach movement]] and affiliated movements as terrorist, forbidding certain [[Israeli settlers]] to enter Palestinian towns, and demanding that those settlers turn in their army-issued rifles,<ref name = "NYT Haberman"/> although rejecting a [[Palestinian Liberation Organization]] demand that all settlers in the [[West Bank]] be disarmed and that an international force be created to protect Palestinians.<ref name = "NYT Haberman"/>
-Goldstein's gravesite became a pilgrimage site for Jewish extremists.<ref name = "Party"/> The following words are inscribed on the tomb: "He gave his life for the people of Israel, its Torah and land."<ref name=shame /> In 1999, after the passing of Israeli legislation outlawing monuments to terrorists, the Israeli Army dismantled the shrine that had been built to Goldstein at the site of his interment. The tombstone and its epitaph, calling Goldstein a martyr with clean hands and a pure heart, was left untouched.<ref name=dismantle /> After the [[flagstone]]s around it were pried away under the eye of a military chaplain, the ground was covered with gravel.
 ==Early life and education==
-Goldstein was born on December 9, 1956, as Benjamin Goldstein in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York (state)|New York]], to an [[Orthodox Jewish]] family. He attended the [[Yeshiva of Flatbush]] religious [[Jewish day school|day school]]. He studied medicine at [[Yeshiva University]],<ref>Precker, Michael. [http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/InfoWeb?p_action=doc&p_docid=0ED3D460D1AEC80A&p_docnum=1&p_queryname=NaN&p_product=NewsBank&p_theme=aggregated4&p_nbid=Q4CL4EJFMTE4NTg0NzQ0OS4yODY4NjU6MTo3OnJhLTE4ODg "Brooklyn's image as extremist hotbed disputed by some Borough defenders say ties to Israel cherished, but radical groups aren't"], ''[[The Dallas Morning News]]'', March 20, 1994. Accessed August 6, 2007. "'This is not what we are teaching,' said Rabbi David Eliach, principal at the Yeshiva of Flatbush, where Dr. Goldstein attended high school."</ref> receiving a medical degree from the [[Albert Einstein College of Medicine]]. He belonged to the [[Jewish Defense League]] (JDL), a militant Jewish organization founded by his boyhood acquaintance [[Meir Kahane]].<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/25/newsid_4167000/4167929.stm BBC News] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170706170942/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/25/newsid_4167000/4167929.stm |date=2017-07-06 }} "Goldstein had been a member of the Jewish Defense League."</ref>
+Goldstein was born on December 9, 1956, as Benjamin Goldstein in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York (state)|New York]], to an [[Orthodox Jewish]] family. He attended the [[Yeshiva of Flatbush]] religious [[Jewish day school|day school]]. He studied medicine at [[Yeshiva University]],<ref>Precker, Michael. [http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/InfoWeb?p_action=doc&p_docid=0ED3D460D1AEC80A&p_docnum=1&p_queryname=NaN&p_product=NewsBank&p_theme=aggregated4&p_nbid=Q4CL4EJFMTE4NTg0NzQ0OS4yODY4NjU6MTo3OnJhLTE4ODg "Brooklyn's image as extremist hotbed disputed by some Borough defenders say ties to Israel cherished, but radical groups aren't"], ''[[The Dallas Morning News]]'', March 20, 1994. Accessed August 6, 2007. "'This is not what we are teaching,' said Rabbi David Eliach, principal at the Yeshiva of Flatbush, where Dr. Goldstein attended high school."</ref> receiving a medical degree from the [[Albert Einstein College of Medicine]]. He belonged to the [[Jewish Defense League]] (JDL), a militant Jewish organization founded by his boyhood acquaintance [[Meir Kahane]].<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/25/newsid_4167000/4167929.stm BBC News] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170706170942/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/25/newsid_4167000/4167929.stm |date=July 6, 2017 }} "Goldstein had been a member of the Jewish Defense League."</ref>
 ==Immigration to Israel==
-Goldstein immigrated to [[Israel]] in 1983.<ref name="Time"/> He served as a physician in the [[Israel Defense Forces]] (IDF), first as a conscript, then in the reserve forces. Following the end of his active duty, Goldstein worked as a physician, and lived in the [[Israeli settlement]] of [[Kiryat Arba]] near [[Hebron]], where he worked as an emergency doctor, and was involved in treating victims of Arab-Israeli violence.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/25/newsid_4167000/4167929.stm BBC News] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170706170942/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/25/newsid_4167000/4167929.stm |date=2017-07-06 }} "Goldstein had lived in Israel for 11 years and was a doctor in the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba, just outside Hebron." "As the settlement's main emergency doctor, he was involved in treating victims of Arab-Israeli violence."</ref> He changed his name from Benjamin to Baruch, married a Soviet immigrant named Miriam,<ref>{{Cite journal |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/1994/1130/30081.html |title=Life in Hebron's cage of security |journal=[[Christian Science Monitor]] |access-date=2018-02-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180219090315/https://www.csmonitor.com/1994/1130/30081.html |archive-date=2018-02-19 |url-status=live |date=1994-11-30 }}</ref> and had four children. Israeli press reports claimed that Goldstein refused to treat Arabs, even Arab soldiers serving in the IDF, believing it was against Jewish laws to treat non-Jews even for payment.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://972mag.com/idf-jewish-soldiers-refuse-to-share-table-with-druze-comrades/40607/ | work=[[+972 Magazine]]| title=Jewish soldiers refuse to share Seder table with Druze comrades | first=Yossi | last=Gurvitz | date=2012-04-08 | access-date=2012-09-10 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121117050352/http://972mag.com/idf-jewish-soldiers-refuse-to-share-table-with-druze-comrades/40607/ | archive-date=2012-11-17 | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>[[Israel Shahak]], [[Norton Mezvinsky]], ''Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel''. (1999) 2nd edition Pluto Press 2004 p.96.</ref> This was also reflected in comments by his acquaintances.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=xvvPh-ob6OQC&dq=terror+baruch+goldstein&pg=PA98 Mass-mediated Terrorism] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140814150225/http://books.google.com/books?id=xvvPh-ob6OQC&pg=PA98&lpg=PA98&dq=terror+baruch+goldstein&source=bl&ots=zWfWcegzBE&sig=A2-eodZSI3G8ulh1O9EZtscj4P8&hl=en&ei=b4exSfGmGZqqtQPtkfjXAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result#PPA98,M1 |date=2014-08-14 }} Brigitte Lebens Nacos, Rowman & Littlefield, 2002</ref> Goldstein was active in Kahane's [[Kach and Kahane Chai|Kach]] party, and was third on the party list for the [[Knesset]] during the 1984 elections.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=M23n0qDTvkQC&q=Goldstein+list&pg=PA259 "Brother Against Brother"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140628155519/http://books.google.com/books?id=M23n0qDTvkQC&pg=PA259&dq=Baruch+Goldstein+Brother+Against&hl=en&ei=LzW-TJ_yBYaZ4AaOn527AQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Goldstein%20list&f=false |date=2014-06-28 }} By Ehud Sprinzak pg. 242</ref>
+Goldstein immigrated to [[Israel]] in 1983.<ref name="Time"/> He served as a physician in the [[Israel Defense Forces]] (IDF), first as a conscript, then in the reserve forces. Following the end of his active duty, Goldstein worked as a physician, and lived in the [[Israeli settlement]] of [[Kiryat Arba]] near [[Hebron]], where he worked as an emergency doctor, and was involved in treating victims of Arab-Israeli violence.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/25/newsid_4167000/4167929.stm BBC News] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170706170942/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/25/newsid_4167000/4167929.stm |date=July 6, 2017 }} "Goldstein had lived in Israel for 11 years and was a doctor in the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba, just outside Hebron." "As the settlement's main emergency doctor, he was involved in treating victims of Arab-Israeli violence."</ref> He changed his name from Benjamin to Baruch, married a Soviet immigrant named Miriam,<ref>{{Cite journal |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/1994/1130/30081.html |title=Life in Hebron's cage of security |journal=[[Christian Science Monitor]] |access-date=February 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180219090315/https://www.csmonitor.com/1994/1130/30081.html |archive-date=February 19, 2018 |url-status=live |date=November 30, 1994 }}</ref> and had four children. Israeli press reports claimed that Goldstein refused to treat Arabs, even Arab soldiers serving in the IDF, believing it was against Jewish laws to treat non-Jews even for payment.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://972mag.com/idf-jewish-soldiers-refuse-to-share-table-with-druze-comrades/40607/ | work=[[+972 Magazine]]| title=Jewish soldiers refuse to share Seder table with Druze comrades | first=Yossi | last=Gurvitz | date=April 8, 2012 | access-date=September 10, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121117050352/http://972mag.com/idf-jewish-soldiers-refuse-to-share-table-with-druze-comrades/40607/ | archive-date=November 17, 2012 | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>[[Israel Shahak]], [[Norton Mezvinsky]], ''Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel''. (1999) 2nd edition Pluto Press 2004 p.96.</ref> This was also reflected in comments by his acquaintances.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=xvvPh-ob6OQC&dq=terror+baruch+goldstein&pg=PA98 Mass-mediated Terrorism] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140814150225/http://books.google.com/books?id=xvvPh-ob6OQC&pg=PA98&lpg=PA98&dq=terror+baruch+goldstein&source=bl&ots=zWfWcegzBE&sig=A2-eodZSI3G8ulh1O9EZtscj4P8&hl=en&ei=b4exSfGmGZqqtQPtkfjXAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result#PPA98,M1 |date=August 14, 2014 }} Brigitte Lebens Nacos, Rowman & Littlefield, 2002</ref> Goldstein was active in Kahane's [[Kach (political party)|Kach]] party, and was third on the party list for the [[Knesset]] during the 1984 elections.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=M23n0qDTvkQC&q=Goldstein+list&pg=PA259 "Brother Against Brother"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140628155519/http://books.google.com/books?id=M23n0qDTvkQC&pg=PA259&dq=Baruch+Goldstein+Brother+Against&hl=en&ei=LzW-TJ_yBYaZ4AaOn527AQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Goldstein%20list&f=false |date=June 28, 2014 }} By Ehud Sprinzak pg. 242</ref>
-He compared Israel's democracy to the Nazi regime, and was in the habit of wearing a [[yellow badge|yellow star]] with the word ''JUDE'' on it.<ref>Ami Pedahzur, Arie Perliger, ''Jewish Terrorism in Israel''. Columbia University Press, 2011. p.71.</ref>
+He compared Israel's democracy to the Nazi regime, and often wore a [[yellow badge|yellow star]] with the word ''JUDE'' on it.<ref>Ami Pedahzur, Arie Perliger. ''Jewish Terrorism in Israel''. Columbia University Press, 2011. p.71.</ref>
 ==Massacre==
 {{main article|Cave of the Patriarchs massacre}}
-On February 25, 1994, that year's [[Purim]] day, Goldstein entered a room in the [[Cave of the Patriarchs]] that was serving as a mosque, wearing an [[Israeli army]] uniform "with the insignia of rank, creating the image of a reserve officer on active duty".<ref name=BBC>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/25/newsid_4167000/4167929.stm|work=BBC|title=1994: Jewish settler kills 30 at holy site|date=25 February 1994 |accessdate=1 January 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Government/Law/Legal%20Issues%20and%20Rulings/COMMISSION%20OF%20INQUIRY-%20MASSACRE%20AT%20THE%20TOMB%20OF%20THE |title=Commission of Inquiry- Massacre at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron-26-Jun-94 |publisher=[[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Israel)|Ministry of Foreign Affairs]]|date=1994-06-26 |access-date=2013-08-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130112230634/http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Government/Law/Legal%20Issues%20and%20Rulings/COMMISSION%20OF%20INQUIRY-%20MASSACRE%20AT%20THE%20TOMB%20OF%20THE |archive-date=2013-01-12 }}</ref> He then opened fire, killing 29 worshippers and wounding more than 125.<ref name=haaretz_Issacharoff>[http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1152775.html "Settlers remember gunman Goldstein; Hebron riots continue"]. Issacharoff, Avi. ''[[Haaretz]]''. March 1, 2010.</ref> Mosque guard Mohammad Suleiman Abu Saleh said he thought that Goldstein was trying to kill as many people as possible, and described how there were "bodies and blood everywhere".<ref name=BBC20050225/> Eventually, Goldstein was overcome and beaten to death by survivors of the [[massacre]].<ref name=Time19940307>{{cite magazine|author=George J. Church|author2=Lisa Beyer|author3=Jamil Hamad|author4=Dean Fischer|author5=J.F.O. McAllister|date=March 7, 1994|title=When Fury Rules|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,980291,00.html|access-date=24 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111214134757/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,980291,00.html|archive-date=December 14, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> According to [[Ian Lustick]], "By mowing down Arabs he believed wanted to kill Jews, Goldstein was re-enacting part of the Purim story."<ref>[[Ian Lustick]], ''For The Land and The Lord'', Council on Foreign Relations (1988) 2nd ed., 1994, Preface</ref>
+On February 25, 1994, that year's [[Purim]] day, Goldstein entered a room in the [[Cave of the Patriarchs]] that was serving as a mosque, wearing an [[Israeli army]] uniform "with the insignia of rank, creating the image of a reserve officer on active duty".<ref name=BBC>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/25/newsid_4167000/4167929.stm|work=BBC|title=1994: Jewish settler kills 30 at holy site|date=February 25, 1994 |access-date=January 1, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Government/Law/Legal%20Issues%20and%20Rulings/COMMISSION%20OF%20INQUIRY-%20MASSACRE%20AT%20THE%20TOMB%20OF%20THE |title=Commission of Inquiry- Massacre at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron-26-Jun-94 |publisher=[[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Israel)|Ministry of Foreign Affairs]]|date=June 26, 1994 |access-date=August 1, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130112230634/http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Government/Law/Legal%20Issues%20and%20Rulings/COMMISSION%20OF%20INQUIRY-%20MASSACRE%20AT%20THE%20TOMB%20OF%20THE |archive-date=January 12, 2013 }}</ref> He then opened fire, killing 29 worshippers and wounding more than 125.<ref name=haaretz_Issacharoff>[http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1152775.html "Settlers remember gunman Goldstein; Hebron riots continue"]. Issacharoff, Avi. ''[[Haaretz]]''. March 1, 2010.</ref> Mosque guard Mohammad Suleiman Abu Saleh said he thought that Goldstein was trying to kill as many people as possible, and described how there were "bodies and blood everywhere".<ref name=BBC20050225/> Eventually, Goldstein was overcome and beaten to death by survivors of the [[massacre]].<ref name="Time19940307">{{cite magazine |last=Church |first=George J. |last2=Beyer |first2=Lisa |last3=Hamad |first3=Jamil |last4=Fischer |first4=Dean |last5=McAllister |first5=J.F.O. |name-list-style=and |date=March 7, 1994 |title=When Fury Rules |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,980291,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111214134757/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,980291,00.html |archive-date=December 14, 2011 |access-date=July 24, 2011 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]}}</ref> According to [[Ian Lustick]], "By mowing down Arabs he believed wanted to kill Jews, Goldstein was re-enacting part of the Purim story."<ref>[[Ian Lustick]]. ''For The Land and The Lord'', Council on Foreign Relations (1988) 2nd ed., 1994, Preface</ref>
+[[File:Clashes following the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre, 1994 Dan Hadani Archive III.jpg|thumb|left|Civilian injured in the riots on the Temple Mount days after the massacre]]
-Palestinian protests and riots immediately followed the shooting; in the following week, twenty-five Palestinians were killed (by the Israel Defense Forces), as well as five Israelis.<ref name="mej"/> Following the riots, the Israeli government imposed a two-week curfew on the 120,000 Palestinian residents of Hebron. The 400 Jewish settlers of H2 were free to move around.<ref name = "Hindu">{{cite news| first = Bhaduri| last = Aditi| title = Fabled town, divided and bruised| url = http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mag/2006/05/21/stories/2006052100090100.htm| newspaper = [[The Hindu]]| date = May 21, 2006| access-date = October 19, 2009| quote = Still fresh in the memory of almost all the inhabitants was the Goldstein case of 1994, when a two-week curfew was imposed on the 1,20,000 {{sic}} Palestinian residents of the city, but not on the 400 Jewish settlers of H2.| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110228213534/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mag/2006/05/21/stories/2006052100090100.htm| archive-date = February 28, 2011| url-status = dead}}</ref> Israeli Prime Minister [[Yitzhak Rabin]] telephoned [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] (PLO) leader [[Yasser Arafat]], and described the attack as a "loathsome, criminal act of murder".<ref name=BBC20050225>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/25/newsid_4167000/4167929.stm "On This Day 1994: Jewish settler kills 30 at holy site"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170706170942/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/25/newsid_4167000/4167929.stm |date=2017-07-06 }}, February 25, 2005, BBC News.</ref> In an address to the Knesset, Rabin, addressing not just Goldstein and his legacy but also other militant settlers, stated: You are not part of the community of Israel&nbsp;... You are not part of the national democratic camp which we all belong to in this house, and many of the people despise you. You are not partners in the Zionist enterprise. You are a foreign implant. You are an errant weed. Sensible Judaism spits you out. You placed yourself outside the wall of Jewish law&nbsp;... We say to this horrible man and those like him: you are a shame on Zionism and an embarrassment to Judaism." The Israeli government condemned the massacre, and responded by arresting followers of Meir Kahane, forbidding certain settlers from entering Arab towns, and demanding that those settlers turn in their army-issued rifles, though rejecting a PLO demand that settlers be disarmed and that an international force be created to protect Palestinians.<ref name = "NYT Haberman">{{cite news| first=Clyde| last=Haberman| author-link=Clyde Haberman| title=West Bank Massacre; Israel Eases Curfew in Territories; Ensuing Riots Deepen Pessimism| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/03/world/west-bank-massacre-israel-eases-curfew-territories-ensuing-riots-deepen.html?scp=1&pagewanted=all| work=[[The New York Times]]| page=A1| date=March 3, 1994| access-date=October 19, 2009| quote=Faced with rage in the territories and its own revulsion over the Hebron massacre, the P.L.O. has dug in on its demands that all settlers be disarmed and that an international force be created to protect Palestinians. Mr. Rabin has said no to both demands. But he [Rabin] has imposed tougher measures against a relatively small number of the most militant settlers, which, while far from what the Palestinians want, represents a significant shift for the Government. Several days after ordering the arrest of five people faithful to the anti-Arab preaching of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, the army began today to carry out other measures, telling 18 settlers to stay out of Arab towns and to turn in their army-issued rifles.| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140716165357/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/03/world/west-bank-massacre-israel-eases-curfew-territories-ensuing-riots-deepen.html?scp=1&pagewanted=all| archive-date=July 16, 2014| url-status=live}}</ref> Goldstein was immediately "denounced with shocked horror even by the mainstream Orthodox",<ref name="ethics">''The Ethics of War in Asian Civilizations: A Comparative Perspective'' By Torkel Brekke, Routledge, 2006, p.&nbsp;44.</ref> and many in Israel classified Goldstein as insane.<ref name="wilson">Wilson, Rodney. 2007. [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13530190701427933 "Review Article: Islam and Terrorism"]. ''British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies''. 34 (2): 203–213. (accessed 29 August 2010).</ref>
+Palestinian protests and riots immediately followed the shooting; in the following week, twenty-five Palestinians were killed (by the Israel Defense Forces), as well as five Israelis.<ref name="mej"/> Following the riots, the Israeli government imposed a two-week curfew on the 120,000 Palestinian residents of Hebron. The 400 Jewish settlers of H2 were free to move around.<ref name="Hindu">{{cite news |last=Aditi |first=Bhaduri |date=May 21, 2006 |title=Fabled town, divided and bruised |url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mag/2006/05/21/stories/2006052100090100.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110228213534/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mag/2006/05/21/stories/2006052100090100.htm |archive-date=February 28, 2011 |access-date=October 19, 2009 |newspaper=[[The Hindu]] |quote=Still fresh in the memory of almost all the inhabitants was the Goldstein case of 1994, when a two-week curfew was imposed on the 1,20,000 {{sic}} Palestinian residents of the city, but not on the 400 Jewish settlers of H2.}}</ref> Israeli Prime Minister [[Yitzhak Rabin]] telephoned [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] (PLO) leader [[Yasser Arafat]], and described the attack as a "loathsome, criminal act of murder".<ref name=BBC20050225>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/25/newsid_4167000/4167929.stm "On This Day 1994: Jewish settler kills 30 at holy site"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170706170942/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/25/newsid_4167000/4167929.stm |date=July 6, 2017 }}, February 25, 2005, BBC News.</ref> In an address to the Knesset, Rabin, addressing not just Goldstein and his legacy but also other militant settlers, stated:
+<blockquote>"You are not part of the community of Israel&nbsp;... You are not part of the national democratic camp which we all belong to in this house, and many of the people despise you. You are not partners in the Zionist enterprise. You are a foreign implant. You are an errant weed. Sensible Judaism spits you out. You placed yourself outside the wall of Jewish law&nbsp;... We say to this horrible man and those like him: you are a shame on Zionism and an embarrassment to Judaism."</blockquote>
+The Israeli government condemned the massacre, and responded by arresting followers of Meir Kahane, forbidding certain settlers from entering Arab towns, and demanding that those settlers turn in their army-issued rifles, though rejecting a PLO demand that settlers be disarmed and that an international force be created to protect Palestinians.<ref name="NYT Haberman">{{cite news| first=Clyde| last=Haberman| author-link=Clyde Haberman| title=West Bank Massacre; Israel Eases Curfew in Territories; Ensuing Riots Deepen Pessimism| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/03/world/west-bank-massacre-israel-eases-curfew-territories-ensuing-riots-deepen.html?scp=1&pagewanted=all| work=[[The New York Times]]| page=A1| date=March 3, 1994| access-date=October 19, 2009| quote=Faced with rage in the territories and its own revulsion over the Hebron massacre, the P.L.O. has dug in on its demands that all settlers be disarmed and that an international force be created to protect Palestinians. Mr. Rabin has said no to both demands. But he [Rabin] has imposed tougher measures against a relatively small number of the most militant settlers, which, while far from what the Palestinians want, represents a significant shift for the Government. Several days after ordering the arrest of five people faithful to the anti-Arab preaching of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, the army began today to carry out other measures, telling 18 settlers to stay out of Arab towns and to turn in their army-issued rifles.| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140716165357/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/03/world/west-bank-massacre-israel-eases-curfew-territories-ensuing-riots-deepen.html?scp=1&pagewanted=all| archive-date=July 16, 2014| url-status=live}}</ref> Goldstein was immediately "denounced with shocked horror even by the mainstream Orthodox",<ref name="ethics">Brekke, Torkel. ''The Ethics of War in Asian Civilizations: A Comparative Perspective''. Routledge, 2006, p.&nbsp;44.</ref> and many in Israel classified Goldstein as insane.<ref name="wilson">Wilson, Rodney. 2007. [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13530190701427933 "Review Article: Islam and Terrorism"]. ''British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies''. 34 (2): 203–213. (accessed August 29, 2010).</ref>
 ==Gravesite and shrine==
 [[Image:Baruch Goldstein tomb.jpg|thumb|right|Goldstein's tomb]]
-Israeli military authorities refused to allow Goldstein to be buried in the Jewish cemetery in Hebron.<ref>{{cite web|title=Supreme court decision|url=http://elyon2.court.gov.il/files/98/950/061/G13/98061950.G13.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20141227155120/http://elyon2.court.gov.il/files/98/950/061/G13/98061950.G13.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2014-12-27}}</ref> He was buried opposite the Meir Kahane Memorial Park in [[Kiryat Arba]], a Jewish settlement adjacent to Hebron. The park is named in memory of Rabbi [[Meir Kahane]], founder of the Israeli [[far-right]] political party [[Kach and Kahane Chai|Kach]], a group classified by the United States and Israeli governments as a [[List of designated terrorist groups|terrorist group]]. Goldstein was a long-time devotee of Kahane.<ref name="Time">{{cite magazine |last=Lacayo |first=Richard |author2=Lisa Beyer |author3=Massimo Calabresi |author4=Eric Silver |date=March 7, 1994 |title=The Making of a Murderous Fanatic |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,980282,00.html |access-date=October 19, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090210225849/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,980282,00.html |archive-date=February 10, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
+Israeli military authorities refused to allow Goldstein to be buried in the Jewish cemetery in Hebron.<ref>{{cite web|title=Supreme court decision|url=http://elyon2.court.gov.il/files/98/950/061/G13/98061950.G13.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20141227155120/http://elyon2.court.gov.il/files/98/950/061/G13/98061950.G13.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 27, 2014}}</ref> He was buried opposite the Meir Kahane Memorial Park in [[Kiryat Arba]], a Jewish settlement adjacent to Hebron. The park is named in memory of Rabbi [[Meir Kahane]], founder of the [[Far-right politics in Israel|Israeli far-right]] political party [[Kach (political party)|Kach]], a group classified by the United States and Israeli governments as a [[List of designated terrorist groups|terrorist group]]. Goldstein was a long-time devotee of Kahane.<ref name="Time">{{cite magazine |last=Lacayo |first=Richard |last2=Beyer |first2=Lisa |last3=Calabresi |first3=Massimo |last4=Silver |first4=Eric |name-list-style=and |date=March 7, 1994 |title=The Making of a Murderous Fanatic |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,980282,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090210225849/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,980282,00.html |archive-date=February 10, 2009 |access-date=October 19, 2009 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]}}</ref>
-The gravesite has become a [[pilgrimage]] site for Jewish [[extremists]]; a plaque near the grave reads, "To the holy Baruch Goldstein, who gave his life for the Jewish people, the Torah, and the nation of Israel". According to [[Baruch Marzel]], about 10,000 people had visited the grave by the year 2000.<ref name="Party">{{cite news |title=Graveside party celebrates Hebron massacre |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/685792.stm |work=BBC News |date=March 21, 2000 |access-date=October 19, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090801045341/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/685792.stm |archive-date=August 1, 2009 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1996, members of the [[Labor Party (Israel)|Labor Party]] called for the shrine-like landscaped prayer area near the grave to be removed, and Israeli security officials expressed concern that the grave would encourage extremists.<ref>[http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/4961/edition_id/91/format/html/displaystory.html "Goldstein's grave draws extremists"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930035045/http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/4961/edition_id/91/format/html/displaystory.html |date=2007-09-30 }}, [[Jewish Telegraphic Agency]], November 22, 1996.</ref> In 1999, following passage of a law designed to prohibit monuments to [[terrorists]], and an associated Supreme Court ruling, the Israeli Army bulldozed the shrine and prayer area set up near Goldstein's grave.<ref>[http://archives.cnn.com/1999/WORLD/meast/12/29/israel.goldstein/index.html "Israel removes shrine to mosque murderer"], [[CNN]], 29 December 1999. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051114140828/http://archives.cnn.com/1999/WORLD/meast/12/29/israel.goldstein/index.html |date=14 November 2005 }}</ref> A new tomb has been built, and still receives visits from Jewish pilgrims.<ref name=shame/>
+The gravesite has become a [[pilgrimage]] site for Jewish [[extremists]]; a plaque near the grave reads, "To the holy Baruch Goldstein, who gave his life for the Jewish people, the Torah, and the nation of Israel". According to [[Baruch Marzel]], about 10,000 people had visited the grave by the year 2000.<ref name="Party">{{cite news |title=Graveside party celebrates Hebron massacre |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/685792.stm |work=BBC News |date=March 21, 2000 |access-date=October 19, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090801045341/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/685792.stm |archive-date=August 1, 2009 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1996, members of the [[Israeli Labor Party|Labor Party]] called for the shrine-like landscaped prayer area near the grave to be removed, and Israeli security officials expressed concern that the grave would encourage extremists.<ref>[http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/4961/edition_id/91/format/html/displaystory.html "Goldstein's grave draws extremists"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930035045/http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/4961/edition_id/91/format/html/displaystory.html |date=September 30, 2007 }}, [[Jewish Telegraphic Agency]], November 22, 1996.</ref> In 1999, following passage of a law designed to prohibit monuments to [[terrorists]], and an associated Supreme Court ruling, the Israeli Army bulldozed the shrine and prayer area set up near Goldstein's grave.<ref>[http://archives.cnn.com/1999/WORLD/meast/12/29/israel.goldstein/index.html "Israel removes shrine to mosque murderer"], [[CNN]], December 29, 1999. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051114140828/http://archives.cnn.com/1999/WORLD/meast/12/29/israel.goldstein/index.html |date=November 14, 2005 }}</ref> As of 2014, a new tomb has been built, and still receives visits from Jewish pilgrims.<ref name=shame/>
 ==Veneration by extremists==
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 While mainstream Jewish religious leaders, including the chief rabbis of Israel, rejected the suggestion that killing Palestinians was authorized by the [[Torah]], some extremist religious Jews have defended Goldstein's actions.<ref name="LATimes-022894"/>
-At Goldstein's funeral, Rabbi Yaacov Perrin claimed that even one million Arabs are "not worth a Jewish fingernail".<ref name="LATimes-022894">{{cite news |last1=Kraft |first1=Scott |title=Extremists Pay Tribute to Killer of 48 at Funeral |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-02-28-mn-28250-story.html |access-date=17 January 2020 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=28 Feb 1994}}</ref><ref name="wrmea-0399">{{cite journal|title=Growing Intolerance Threatens the Humane Jewish Tradition|last=Brownfeld|first=Allan C.|journal=[[Washington Report on Middle East Affairs]]|date=March 1999|pages=84–89|access-date=2011-04-11|url=http://www.wrmea.com/component/content/article/175/1866-growing-intolerance-threatens-the-humane-jewish-tradition.html}}</ref><ref name="TheNewCrusades">{{cite book|title=The new crusades: constructing the Muslim enemy|author=Emran Qureshi|author2=Michael Anthony Sells|page=129|publisher=[[Columbia University Press]]|isbn=978-0-231-12667-0|year=2003}}</ref> Samuel Hacohen, a teacher at a Jerusalem college, declared Goldstein the "greatest Jew alive, not in one way, but in every way", and said that he was "the only one who could do it, the only one who was 100 percent perfect".<ref name="wrmea-0399"/><ref name="TheNewCrusades"/> Rabbi [[Dov Lior]] of Kiryat Arba declared that Goldstein was "holier than all the martyrs of the Holocaust".<ref>Sefi Rachlevsky, [http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/ruth-calderon-in-the-wonderland-of-mutilated-israeli-ideology.premium-1.514589 "Ruth Calderon in the wonderland of mutilated Israeli ideology"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130410131439/http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/ruth-calderon-in-the-wonderland-of-mutilated-israeli-ideology.premium-1.514589 |date=2013-04-10 }} at ''[[Haaretz]]'', 10 April 2013</ref>
+At Goldstein's funeral, Rabbi Yaacov Perrin claimed that even one million Arabs are "not worth a Jewish fingernail".<ref name="LATimes-022894">{{cite news |last=Kraft |first=Scott |title=Extremists Pay Tribute to Killer of 48 at Funeral |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-02-28-mn-28250-story.html |access-date=January 17, 2020 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=February 28, 1994}}</ref><ref name="wrmea-0399">{{cite journal|title=Growing Intolerance Threatens the Humane Jewish Tradition|last=Brownfeld|first=Allan C.|journal=[[Washington Report on Middle East Affairs]]|date=March 1999|pages=84–89|access-date=April 11, 2011|url=http://www.wrmea.com/component/content/article/175/1866-growing-intolerance-threatens-the-humane-jewish-tradition.html}}</ref><ref name="TheNewCrusades">{{cite book |last=Qureshi |first=Emran |title=The new crusades: constructing the Muslim enemy |last2=Sells |first2=Michael Anthony |publisher=[[Columbia University Press]] |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-231-12667-0 |page=129}}</ref> Samuel Hacohen, a teacher at a Jerusalem college, declared Goldstein the "greatest Jew alive, not in one way, but in every way", and said that he was "the only one who could do it, the only one who was 100 percent perfect".<ref name="wrmea-0399"/><ref name="TheNewCrusades"/> Rabbi [[Dov Lior]] of Kiryat Arba declared that Goldstein was "holier than all the martyrs of the Holocaust".<ref>Rachlevsky, Sefi. [http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/ruth-calderon-in-the-wonderland-of-mutilated-israeli-ideology.premium-1.514589 "Ruth Calderon in the wonderland of mutilated Israeli ideology"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130410131439/http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/ruth-calderon-in-the-wonderland-of-mutilated-israeli-ideology.premium-1.514589|date=April 10, 2013}} at ''[[Haaretz]]'', April 10, 2013</ref>
+In the weeks following the massacre, hundreds of Israelis traveled to Goldstein's grave to celebrate Goldstein's actions. Some [[Hasidic Judaism|Hasidim]] danced and sang around his grave.<ref name="nyt">Haberman, Clyde. [https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/01/world/hundreds-of-jews-gather-to-honor-hebron-killer.html?pagewanted=1 "Hundreds Of Jews Gather To Honor Hebron killer"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218054609/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/01/world/hundreds-of-jews-gather-to-honor-hebron-killer.html?pagewanted=1|date=February 18, 2017}}, April 1, 1994, ''The New York Times''.</ref> According to one visitor to the gravesite in the wake of the attacks, "If [Goldstein] stopped these so-called peace talks, then he is truly holy because this is not real peace."<ref name=nyt/> Some visitors declared Goldstein a "saint" and "hero of Israel".<ref name=nyt/>
+The phenomenon of the veneration of Goldstein's tomb persisted for years.<ref name="Party"/> Even after the dismantling of Goldstein's shrine in 1999, radical Jewish settlers continued to celebrate the anniversary of the massacre in the West Bank, sometimes even dressing up themselves or their children to look like Goldstein.<ref name="Party"/><ref name=bou>Bouckaert, Peter. [https://books.google.com/books?id=6aLsz14aKJsC&dq=Center+of+the+storm:+a+case+study+of+human+rights+abuses+in+Hebron+District+Goldstein&pg=PT91 ''Center of the Storm: a case study of human rights abuses in Hebron District''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170103114845/https://books.google.com/books?id=6aLsz14aKJsC&pg=PT91&dq=Center+of+the+storm:+a+case+study+of+human+rights+abuses+in+Hebron+District+Goldstein&as_brr=3&client=firefox-a&cd=1 |date=January 3, 2017 }}, 2001, page 82.</ref><ref>Horowitz, Elliott. [http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/i8213.html Reckless Rites: Purim and the Legacy of Jewish Violence] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905092638/http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/i8213.html|date=September 5, 2015}} pp. 8, Princeton University Press</ref><ref>[http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/goldstein-purim-party-spark-mks-protests-1.15800 Purim Party Sparks MKs Protests] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924221726/http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/goldstein-purim-party-spark-mks-protests-1.15800 |date=September 24, 2015 }}, ''Haaretz'', March 19, 2003</ref>
-In the weeks following the massacre, hundreds of Israelis traveled to Goldstein's grave to celebrate Goldstein's actions. Some [[Hasidic Judaism|Hasidim]] danced and sang around his grave.<ref name=nyt>Haberman, Clyde.[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/01/world/hundreds-of-jews-gather-to-honor-hebron-killer.html?pagewanted=1 "Hundreds Of Jews Gather To Honor Hebron killer"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218054609/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/01/world/hundreds-of-jews-gather-to-honor-hebron-killer.html?pagewanted=1 |date=2017-02-18 }}, April 1, 1994, ''The New York Times''.</ref> According to one visitor to the gravesite in the wake of the attacks, "If [Goldstein] stopped these so-called peace talks, then he is truly holy because this is not real peace."<ref name=nyt /> Some visitors declared Goldstein a "saint" and "hero of Israel".<ref name=nyt />
+In 2010, Jewish settlers sang songs in praise of Baruch Goldstein's massacre demonstratively in front of their Arab neighbours, during celebrations of [[Purim]]. A phrase from one song reads, "Dr. Goldstein, there is none other like you in the world. Dr. Goldstein, we all love you&nbsp;... He aimed at terrorists' heads, squeezed the trigger hard, and shot bullets, and shot, and shot."<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3857671,00.html |title=Sheikh Jarrah Jews praise Baruch Goldstein on Purim |newspaper=Ynetnews |date=March 4, 2010 |access-date=August 26, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101004072523/http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3857671,00.html |archive-date=October 4, 2010 |url-status=live |last=Medzini |first=Ronen }}</ref>
-The phenomenon of the veneration of Goldstein's tomb persisted for years.<ref name = "Party" /> The grave's epitaph said that Goldstein "gave his life for the people of Israel, its Torah, and its land".<ref name=dismantle>GreenBerg, Joel. [https://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/30/world/israel-destroys-shrine-to-mosque-gunman.html "Israel destroys shrine to mosque gunman"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170814222703/http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/30/world/israel-destroys-shrine-to-mosque-gunman.html |date=2017-08-14 }}, December 30, 1999, ''The New York Times''.</ref> In 1999, after the passing of Israeli legislation outlawing monuments to terrorists, the Israeli Army dismantled the shrine that had been built to Goldstein at the site of his interment. In the years after the dismantling of the shrine, radical Jewish settlers continued to celebrate the anniversary of the massacre in the West Bank, sometimes even dressing up themselves or their children to look like Goldstein.<ref name = "Party" /><ref name=bou>Bouckaert, Peter. [https://books.google.com/books?id=6aLsz14aKJsC&dq=Center+of+the+storm:+a+case+study+of+human+rights+abuses+in+Hebron+District+Goldstein&pg=PT91 ''Center of the Storm: a case study of human rights abuses in Hebron District''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170103114845/https://books.google.com/books?id=6aLsz14aKJsC&pg=PT91&dq=Center+of+the+storm:+a+case+study+of+human+rights+abuses+in+Hebron+District+Goldstein&as_brr=3&client=firefox-a&cd=1 |date=2017-01-03 }}, 2001, page 82.</ref><ref>Elliott Horowitz, [http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/i8213.html Reckless Rites: Purim and the Legacy of Jewish Violence] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905092638/http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/i8213.html |date=2015-09-05 }} pp. 8, Princeton University Press</ref><ref>[http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/goldstein-purim-party-spark-mks-protests-1.15800 Purim Party Sparks MKs Protests] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924221726/http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/goldstein-purim-party-spark-mks-protests-1.15800 |date=2015-09-24 }}, ''Haaretz'', March 19, 2003</ref>
+Prior to entering the Knesset, [[Otzma Yehudit]] party leader and current Israeli [[Ministry of National Security (Israel)|Minister for National Security]] [[Itamar Ben-Gvir]] displayed a portrait of Goldstein in his living room. It was removed when Ben-Gvir entered politics.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20221027-israel-s-far-right-leader-ben-gvir-wins-adoring-young-fans|title=Israel's far-right leader Ben-Gvir wins adoring young fans|work=France24.com |date=October 27, 2022|access-date= November 2, 2022}}</ref>
-In 2010, Jewish settlers sang songs in praise of Baruch Goldstein's massacre demonstratively in front of their Arab neighbours, during celebrations of [[Purim]]. A phrase from one song reads, "Dr. Goldstein, there is none other like you in the world. Dr. Goldstein, we all love you&nbsp;... He aimed at terrorists' heads, squeezed the trigger hard, and shot bullets, and shot, and shot."<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3857671,00.html |title=Sheikh Jarrah Jews praise Baruch Goldstein on Purim |newspaper=Ynetnews |date=4 March 2010 |access-date=2010-08-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101004072523/http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3857671,00.html |archive-date=2010-10-04 |url-status=live |last1=Medzini |first1=Ronen }}</ref>
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 *[[Jewish fundamentalism]]
 *[[Kahanism]]
-*[[Terrorism in Israel]]
+*[[Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict|Terrorism in Israel]]
 *[[Zionist political violence]]
 *[[List of rampage killers (religious, political, or ethnic crimes)]]
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Leadership	Meir Kahane Earl Krugel Chaim Ben Pesach Irv Rubin Shelley Rubin Meir Weinstein
Notable members	Baruch Goldstein Mordechai Levy William R. Perl
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