Israeli prosecutors have charged the leader of a Jewish extremist group with incitement to violence and terrorism on Tuesday for inflammatory remarks about Palestinians.
Justice Ministry officials said that Bentzi Gopstein had made public calls for committing acts of violence, published racially inciting material and voiced support for Baruch Goldstein, a Jewish extremist who massacred 29 Muslim worshippers in the Palestinian city of Hebron in 1994.
Gopstein is the leader of an anti-assimilation group that harasses Jewish-Arab couples. He is also a member of the radical Jewish Power party, which was barred earlier this year from running in parliamentary elections over his anti-Arab racism.