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'''Baruch Kappel Goldstein''' (]: '''ברוך גולדשטיין''', commonly pronounced as ''Barukh Goldshteyn'') (] or ], ] – ], ]) was an ]-] ] who killed 29 ] worshippers and wounded 125 in a 1994 shooting attack in the ] in ], ].
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| birth_name = Benjamin Carl Goldstein
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| occupation = Physician
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| date = February 25, 1994
| fatalities = 29
| injuries = 125
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'''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 ]-] mass murderer, religious extremist, and physician who perpetrated the 1994 ] in ] in the ] ], an incident of ].<ref>''Israel and the Politics of Jewish Identity: The Secular-Religious Impasse''. By Asher Cohen, Bernard Susser. p.59</ref><ref> {{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. , ''Jerusalem Post'', April 30, 1995</ref> Goldstein was a supporter of ], a ] party that the ], the ] 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>
==Background==
Born in ], to an ] family, Baruch Goldstein was a direct descendant of the Baal HaTanya, Rabbi ], the founder of the ] movement.{{fact}} Some members of his family were killed in the ]. {{fact}} Goldstein attended the ] religious ], ] and ]. He was a charter member of the ], founded by Rabbi ].


Born in 1956 in ], ], to an ] family, Goldstein received his education there, starting with Jewish scripture studies, and eventually studying medicine at ]. In the United States, he was a member of the ] (JDL), a militant Jewish organization founded by his boyhood acquaintance ]. In 1983, Goldstein immigrated to Israel, and served as a physician in the ], during which he refused to treat Arabs, including those serving as soldiers. Later, he worked as a physician, and lived in the ] of ] near ] in the ] ]. Goldstein was active in Kahane's Kach party, and was third on the party list for the Knesset during the 1984 elections.
After emigrating to ]<!---(year?)--->, he served as a physician in the ], first as a conscript, then in the reserve forces. Here, he gained notoriety for refusing to treat non-Jews, even those serving in the ]. When Goldstein was threatened with ] he declared: "I am not willing to treat any non-Jew. I recognize as legitimate only two authorities: ] and ]."<ref name="kizel">Arych Kizel in ''Yediot Aharonot,'' ] ]</ref> Goldstein's Certificate of Discharge<!--] ]]-->, which is given to every Israeli soldier after their compulsory military service, described him as "devoted, efficient, diligent, enterprising, thorough, disciplined and expert in his profession." Following the end of his active duty, Goldstein worked as a physician and lived in the ] settlement near Hebron, where he served as the Chief Medical Officer.


On February 25, 1994, Goldstein dressed in an Israeli military uniform, entered a mosque in the ] and opened fire on the 800 Palestinian Muslim worshippers praying there during the month of ], 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=]}}</ref>
The Shamgar Commission, which later investigated Goldstein's role in the Cave of the Patriachs massacre, noted that Goldstein had treated an Arab militant in October 1990. Also, Colonel Dr. ], Medical Officer of the Central Command<!---->, Major Nachman Ash, Medical Officer of the Judea and Samaria Division<!---->, and Moti Unger, the Night Security Officer of the Kiryat Arba Local Council <!---->all testified that to their knowledge Goldstein had treated Jew and Arab alike. Evidence was also given by Superintendent Uri Weisskop, who was acting Commander of the Hebron Police Station, that he had not come across any case of Goldstein refusing to give medical aid to a wounded Arab<!---->.


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. {{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 ]s around it were pried away under the eye of a military chaplain, the ground was covered with gravel.
==Cave of the Patriarchs massacre==
{{main|Cave of the Patriarchs massacre}}
On ], ], that year's ] day, Goldstein entered a room in the ] serving as a mosque, wearing "his army uniform with the insignia of rank, creating the image of a reserve officer on active duty" (Shamgar report). He then opened fire at Muslims, killing 29 and wounding 125. 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. After being subdued with a ], Goldstein was beaten to death by Muslim worshippers, notably after his rifle had been taken from him. <ref name="sham">Shamgar Commission: Report pp. 15, 47-48.</ref> Because of this, his official death certificate issued by the Israeli Ministry of the Interior lists the cause of his death as "murder". <ref name="dec">Death certificate (], ]). </ref>


==Early life and education==
Rioting immediately followed the shooting, leading in the following week to the deaths of another 25 Palestinians, four Jewish settlers (one shot by Israeli forces), and one Israeli in ]. <ref name="mej">Middle East Journal, ''Chronology'', vol 48, no 3 (Summer 1994) p511ff.</ref>
Goldstein was born on December 9, 1956, as Benjamin Goldstein in ], ], to an ] family. He attended the ] religious ]. He studied medicine at ],<ref>Precker, Michael. , '']'', 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 ]. He belonged to the ] (JDL), a militant Jewish organization founded by his boyhood acquaintance ].<ref> {{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==
Although the Israeli authorities know (via an Arab collaborator who was present that morning) the names of the Arabs who killed Goldstein, they were never brought to trial. <ref>Tel Aviv District Court Archives file I.S. 1160/94, Para. 4, 5 (], ]).</ref>
Goldstein immigrated to ] in 1983.<ref name="Time"/> He served as a physician in the ] (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 ] of ] near ], where he worked as an emergency doctor, and was involved in treating victims of Arab-Israeli violence.<ref> {{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=] |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=]| 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>], ], ''Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel''. (1999) 2nd edition Pluto Press 2004 p.96.</ref> This was also reflected in comments by his acquaintances.<ref> {{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 ] party, and was third on the party list for the ] during the 1984 elections.<ref> {{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 often wore a ] with the word ''JUDE'' on it.<ref>Ami Pedahzur, Arie Perliger. ''Jewish Terrorism in Israel''. Columbia University Press, 2011. p.71.</ref>


==Response== ==Massacre==
{{main article|Cave of the Patriarchs massacre}}
===Israel===
On February 25, 1994, that year's ] day, Goldstein entered a room in the ] that was serving as a mosque, wearing an ] 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=]|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>. Issacharoff, Avi. '']''. 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 ].<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=]}}</ref> According to ], "By mowing down Arabs he believed wanted to kill Jews, Goldstein was re-enacting part of the Purim story."<ref>]. ''For The Land and The Lord'', Council on Foreign Relations (1988) 2nd ed., 1994, Preface</ref>
Goldstein's actions were immediately condemned by the Israeli government, the mainstream Israeli parties and the Israeli populace in general. Spokespeople for all the organized denominations of ] denounced his act as immoral and as terrorism. The ] movement, to which he belonged, was outlawed. The victims of the shooting received financial compensation.
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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=] |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 ] telephoned ] (PLO) leader ], and described the attack as a "loathsome, criminal act of murder".<ref name=BBC20050225> {{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=]| 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 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. . ''British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies''. 34 (2): 203–213. (accessed August 29, 2010).</ref>


==Gravesite and shrine==
In an address to the ], Prime Minister ] denounced the US-born Goldstein as a "foreign implant" and an "errant weed." He continued, "We say to this horrible man and those like him: you are a shame on ] and an embarrassment to Judaism." ], head of the ] party declared, "This was a despicable crime. I express my unequivocal condemnation." <!--quotes from 'The Jewish Chronicle' (London) ] ], pages 1 and 2-->
]


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 ], a Jewish settlement adjacent to Hebron. The park is named in memory of Rabbi ], founder of the ] political party ], a group classified by the United States and Israeli governments as a ]. 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=]}}</ref>
A poll of 500 Israeli adults for the International Centre for Peace in the Middle East found that 78.8 percent of people condemned the Hebron massacre while 3.6 percent praised Goldstein. <!--source 'The Jewish Chronicle' (London) ] ], page 2-->


The gravesite has become a ] site for Jewish ]; 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 ], 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 ] 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> {{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 }}, ], November 22, 1996.</ref> In 1999, following passage of a law designed to prohibit monuments to ], and an associated Supreme Court ruling, the Israeli Army bulldozed the shrine and prayer area set up near Goldstein's grave.<ref>, ], 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/>
===Jewish diaspora===
In ] the Chief Rabbi ] stated "Such an act is an obscenity and a travesty of Jewish values. That it should have been perpetrated against worshippers in a house of prayer at a holy time makes it a ] as well." He continued, "Violence is evil. Violence committed in the name of God is doubly evil. Violence against those engaged in worshipping God is unspeakably evil." <ref> 'The Jewish Chronicle' (London) ] ], page 1 and then expanded on page 23 </ref>


==Veneration by extremists==
An editorial in ''] ''written by denounced the Kach organisation to which Goldstein belonged as ] and an U.S. creation, funded by American money and a product of American gun culture.<ref name="bermant">Chaim Bermant ''Has one settler settled the settlers future?'' in ''The Jewish Chronicle'' (London), ] ]</ref> The same edition also reported that some ] synagogues in the UK had begun fund-raising for Goldstein's victims.


While mainstream Jewish religious leaders, including the chief rabbis of Israel, rejected the suggestion that killing Palestinians was authorized by the ], some extremist religious Jews have defended Goldstein's actions.<ref name="LATimes-022894"/>
On the other hand, there were also articles and letters in the U.S. Jewish press stating that Baruch Goldstein "pre-emptively struck, thus saving many Jewish lives."
<ref name="e.g.">e.g. "A Visitor to Israel...." article in "The Jewish Press" by Carl Bishop, ] ]; Letters to the Editor "The Jewish Week" from Dr. M. R. Lehmann, ]-] ]; "One Year Later...." article in "Algermeiner Journal" by Dr. M. R. Lehmann, ] ]; "In Retrospect" article in '']'' by Arnold Fine, ] ]. </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=] |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=]|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=] |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 ] of Kiryat Arba declared that Goldstein was "holier than all the martyrs of the Holocaust".<ref>Rachlevsky, Sefi. {{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 '']'', April 10, 2013</ref>
===Arab protests===
Numerous demonstrations, some violent, occurred across countries in the Middle-East and world. At one such protest in ], ], 77-year-old British tourist Howard Long was stabbed by Palestinian protestors. The attacker, Khalid Husni Al-Korashi, was subsequently arrested and the Jordanian Interior Ministry called for its citizens to show calm and restraint in their response.<ref name=Barsky>Barsky, Yehudit. . The American Jewish Committee. Nov. 2000. Accessed ], ].</ref>


In the weeks following the massacre, hundreds of Israelis traveled to Goldstein's grave to celebrate Goldstein's actions. Some ] danced and sang around his grave.<ref name="nyt">Haberman, Clyde. {{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 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/>
===Hamas===
On ], ] threatened suicide attacks against Jewish settlers unless the settlements of ], ], ], ] and ] were evacuated. Bus bombings were carried out on ] in ], and on ] in ]. <ref name="mej" />


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. {{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. {{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> {{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>
===New York===
On ] ], Lebanese born ], armed with a Glock 9-millimeter semi-automatic pistol and a 9-millimeter Cobray machine gun, shot at a van full of Hasidic Jewish rabbinical seminary students on the ].<ref name=Barsky /> Four students were injured in the attack, two seriously with gunshot wounds to the head. Ari Halberstam, a sixteen year old, died of his wounds four days later. While under arrest, Baz confessed to the shootings and was subsequently convicted of second-degree murder. He was sentenced to 141 years in prison. Although he stated the motive for the shooting was "road rage," a later report by Federal authorities described the shootings as "the crimes of a terrorist." Shortly before the attack, Baz attended the Islamic Center of Bay Ridge, whose imam frequently incited anti-Semitism and called for the support of groups such as Hamas. At Baz' trial, it was revealed that the imam told those in attendance, "This takes the mask off the Jews. It shows them to be racist and fascist and as bad as the Nazis. Palestinians are suffering from the occupation, and it’s time to end it." <ref name=Baz>Heilman, Uriel. , Middle East Quarterly. Summer 2001. Accessed ], ].</ref>


In 2010, Jewish settlers sang songs in praise of Baruch Goldstein's massacre demonstratively in front of their Arab neighbours, during celebrations of ]. 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>
===Supporters===
Goldstein is not known to have given any reasons for his actions. However, immediately after the attack, Mike Guzofsky, spokesman for ] in ] and a close friend of Goldstein said, "He wanted to stop the ] dead. He couldn't have picked a better day – ], when Jews fight back." <ref name="paulandfrazer">Geoffrey Paul (New York) and Jenni Frazer (Jerusalem) ''From Brooklyn to Kirya Arba'' in ''The Jewish Chronicle'' (London), ] ]</ref>


Prior to entering the Knesset, ] party leader and current Israeli ] ] 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>
At Goldstein's eulogy Rabbi Dov Lior of Kiryat Arba, another of his close friends in the Kach group, stated, "Goldstein could not continue to bear the humiliations and shame nowadays inflicted upon us; this was why he took action for no other reason than to sanctify the holy name of God." <ref name="baum">Ilana Baum and Tzvi Singer in ''Yediot Aharonot,'' ] ]</ref>


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Goldstein is buried at the Meir Kahane Memorial Park in Kiryat Arba, a Jewish settlement next to Hebron. The park is named in memory of Rabbi Meir Kahane, Goldstein's spiritual mentor. The Goldstein family had requested that he be buried in the ancient Jewish Cemetery of the Martyrs in Hebron, but this request was denied.
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Over the years, the site became a pilgrimage site for those with right-wing political leanings. The Local Religious Council of Kiryat Arba declared the gravesite a memorial and a properly constituted cemetery. Sidewalks, spotlights, streetlights, a cupboard with prayer books and pedestals with candles were installed by supporters. Many of these were paid for by ]. Eventually, the site had the appearance of a small shrine.
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Incensed by the homage being paid to Goldstein, the government sought to have the mini-shrine declared illegal. A bill was passed by the ] in 1998 forbidding the erection of monuments to people whom it considered terrorists. This led to a long battle in the High Court of Israel, which the government ultimately won. In 2000, several hundred police were dispatched to dismantle the shrine. After a battle with Goldstein-supporters that lasted several hours, resulting in many arrests, the appurtenances around the grave were dismantled.

At the time, it was also declared that a discussion of the inscription on his tombstone was pending; however ,no revisions have yet been made (as of 2006).

A support group, the Friends of Baruch Goldstein, hold celebrations and yearly feasts in commemoration near the gravesite.


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American-Israeli mass murderer (1956–1994)

Baruch Goldstein
BornBenjamin Carl Goldstein
(1956-12-09)December 9, 1956
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
DiedFebruary 25, 1994(1994-02-25) (aged 37)
Cave of the Patriarchs, Hebron, Israeli-occupied West Bank
Cause of deathBeating
Alma mater
OccupationPhysician
Known forCave of the Patriarchs massacre
MotiveAnti-Palestinian racism, Zionist extremism
Details
DateFebruary 25, 1994
Location(s)West Bank
Killed29
Injured125
WeaponIMI Galil

Baruch Kopel Goldstein (Hebrew: ברוך קאפל גולדשטיין; born Benjamin Carl Goldstein; 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. 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.

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.

Goldstein's gravesite became a pilgrimage site for Jewish extremists. The following words are inscribed on the tomb: "He gave his life for the people of Israel, its Torah and land." 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. 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, 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.

Immigration to Israel

Goldstein immigrated to Israel in 1983. 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. He changed his name from Benjamin to Baruch, married a Soviet immigrant named Miriam, 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. This was also reflected in comments by his acquaintances. Goldstein was active in Kahane's Kach party, and was third on the party list for the Knesset during the 1984 elections. He compared Israel's democracy to the Nazi regime, and often wore a yellow star with the word JUDE on it.

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". He then opened fire, killing 29 worshippers and wounding more than 125. 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". Eventually, Goldstein was overcome and beaten to death by survivors of the massacre. According to Ian Lustick, "By mowing down Arabs he believed wanted to kill Jews, Goldstein was re-enacting part of the Purim story."

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. 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. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin telephoned Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) leader Yasser Arafat, and described the attack as a "loathsome, criminal act of murder". 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. Goldstein was immediately "denounced with shocked horror even by the mainstream Orthodox", and many in Israel classified Goldstein as insane.

Gravesite and shrine

Goldstein's tomb

Israeli military authorities refused to allow Goldstein to be buried in the Jewish cemetery in Hebron. 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.

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. 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. 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. As of 2014, a new tomb has been built, and still receives visits from Jewish pilgrims.

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.

At Goldstein's funeral, Rabbi Yaacov Perrin claimed that even one million Arabs are "not worth a Jewish fingernail". 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". Rabbi Dov Lior of Kiryat Arba declared that Goldstein was "holier than all the martyrs of the Holocaust".

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. According to one visitor to the gravesite in the wake of the attacks, "If stopped these so-called peace talks, then he is truly holy because this is not real peace." Some visitors declared Goldstein a "saint" and "hero of Israel".

The phenomenon of the veneration of Goldstein's tomb persisted for years. 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.

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."

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.

See also

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