The Jewish Task Force (JTF) is a very small Kahanist organization which is viewed by its opponents as extremist and which has two weekly television shows which both air twice on QPTV, a Queens, New York public access cable TV station. It is run by the former leader of the Jewish Defense League's New York branch, Victor Vancier (known by his Hebrew name Chaim Ben Pesach). It defines itself as "fighting to save The United States and Israel from Islamic and Third World invasion".

JTF makes no public effort to recruit members to the organization. Although Chaim claims JTF is made up of Jewish and "Righteous Gentile" Religious Zionists, it is not known how many members of JTF, if any, there are. Those who wish to support JTF are simply asked for cash donations. The only other known JTF members are David Ben Moshe (Who co-hosts one of the JTF programs with Chaim.), Yosef Ben Meir (Who used to co-host one of the JTF programs with Chaim.), and the webmaster. Occasionaly Chaim has other Jews as guests on the show and sometimes he has "Righteous Gentiles" as guests on the show.

The opinions expressed by the JTF are extreme, even by Kahanist standards, and are not supported by Kach, Kahane Chai, the JDL, or any other Kahanist organizations. They are Anti-Muslim — they supported Slobodan Milosevic's policies in Bosnia and Kosovo and always refer to Islam's holy book as the "Muslim Nazi Koran" since they claim that it commands all Muslims to kill all "Non-Muslim infidels". However the most vitriolic of the JTF's epithets are directed at their Jewish critics. For example, the JTF has referred to Ariel Sharon as a "bolshevik dictator", and Revlon CEO Ronald Perelman is referred to as an "ugly, bald, self-hating kike cockroach".

They also believe that Third World immigrants, are a threat to Western Civilization. They are against America becoming what they call a "Third World banana republic". Under the motto of "Saving America and Israel from Islamic Terrorism", JTF broadcasts two shows on New York public access. It supports right-wing Jewish dissidents in Israel such as the Hilltop Youth.

JTF claims to lead a "righteous struggle to defeat the Bolshevik Israeli government's evil plan to give away Jewish holy land to the Arab terrorists, which is a primary goal to which Chaim Ben Pesach has dedicated his life.". It also claims that "the opinions expressed by JTF are refreshing and inspiring". They believe that "not only is JTF a breath of fresh air, but also that it is one of the only news sources to give an accurate and factual account of the week's events in America and Israel".

Many people believe Chaim uses his television program and website to solicit funds he claims are used to finance JTF's battle to take control of the Israeli government, but they point out that very little proof of such exists. He says that "God will bless" those that donate to JTF. A visit to their website encourages you to send them donations and include JTF in your will, yet also says "We do not respond to e-mail addresses".

Since 1998, JTF has a website which updates every Wednesday morning which Chaim runs with the help of his webmaster. The website has articles among other things as well as the audio of the two weekly JTF TV shows. It also has two Hebrew sections on its website in which there are two weekly audio programs, one which is hosted by Noam Federman, the spiritual leader of the Hilltop Youth, and the other one since February, 2005, by Chaim Ben Pesach with Gil Avraham. JTF funds both Noam Federman and the Hilltop Youth, and Baruch Marzel and the Chayil Party.

According to their website (JTF.ORG), "In a JTF television program which aired in Manhattan on Sunday, September 11, 1994 - precisely seven years to the day before the horrendous Muslim Nazi attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon - Chaim Ben Pesach explicitly predicted that the Islamic terrorists who bombed the Twin Towers in 1993 would return to finish their bloody work, mercilessly murdering thousands of Americans.". This has not been proven and many believe it is simply a forged propaganda gimmick.

JTF claims to hope to raise enough money to help Baruch Marzel's Chayil Party come to power in Israel, where they would in turn fund a JTF program on national television in the United States to inspire a Right Wing "Righteous Gentile" movement to take over the U.S. government. Despite their pleas for donations, there is no accountability on the amounts of money recieved or what the money is being spent on. Chaim Ben Pesach admits that he is unemployed.

JTF's Seven-Point Plan

JTF also published their "Seven-Point Plan" on their website.

1. A ferocious retaliation against all Muslim nations which have in any way aided or abetted terrorism against American citizens.
2. The immediate destruction by the American or Israeli military of all Muslim nuclear reactors, plants and laboratories developing nuclear, chemical and/or biological weapons of mass destruction.
3. Total energy independence for America through a crash development program funded in the defense budget as a vital national security priority.
4. An immediate end to all U.S. foreign aid, even to a genuine friend and ally like Israel, which is harmed rather than helped by her counterproductive dependency on America's addictive welfare handouts.
5. An immediate end to all foreign immigration into the United States, combined with the complete expulsion of America's millions of illegal aliens and the stringent removal of her legal ones at the expiration of their work or residency visas.
6. An immediate recognition by the United States of little Israel’s G-d-given right and obligation to assert full and permanent sovereign control over all sacred Jewish Biblical lands, including Judea, Samaria, the Gaza District, the Golan Heights and eastern Jerusalem.
7. An immediate withdrawal from the fanatically anti-American United Nations (UN) and all organizations directly or indirectly affiliated with it, and the immediate banning of all UN-related activities on American soil.

Chaim Ben Pesach

Chaim Ben Pesach, a convicted felon, was the former Jewish Defense League leader in New York who led efforts to free Soviet Jewry by bombing Soviet diplomatic targets in New York and by tear-gassing a Soviet ballet performance at Lincoln Center in the 1980's. He was convicted of these acts and sentenced to 5 and a half years in jail and was on parole for a while after that. Chaim claims that while he was in jail, he became very thin because they wouldn't give him any kosher food until Senator Jesse Helms intervened on his behalf. This claim has not been proven and some people reject this. Upon his release, he started JTF.

Chaim Ben Pesach is banned from entering Israel. In 1997, Chaim tried to immigrate to Israel but was immediately detained in Ben-Gurion International Airport upon his arrival in Israel and was placed in administrative detention in a cell in the airport. He was not allowed to speak to an attorney nor an American Embassy official despite the fact that he is an American citizen.

On a personal note, Chaim Ben Pesach is the son of an Ashkenazic Jewish father and an Egyptian Jewish mother. He is a single and was never married. Chaim also strongly believes in eating only healthy food.

External link

• Jewish Task Force