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JDL branded one
terrorist groups
by Winston Pickett
SAN FRANCISCO(JTA)—Five
mainstream Bay Area Jewish or
ganizations have expressed a re
sounding approval of state Attor
ney General John Van de Kamp’s
report last month singling out the
Jewish Defense League as one of
the most active terrorist groups in
California.
The San Francisco offices of the
American Jewish Congress, the
American Jewish Committee, and
the Anti-Defamation League of
B'nai B’rith joined the Jewish
Community Relations Council of
San Francisco, the Peninsula.
Marin and Sonoma, and the JCRC
of the Greater East Bay in con
demning the Los Angeles-based
Jewish militant organization.
Said AJCongress director Joel
Brooks in an interview, “There is
no question that the JDL has con
tributed to an atmosphere of ter
ror; its members have been tried,
convicted and sentenced, often to
long prison terms, for their active
participation in terrorist activities
in this country and abroad.”
Brooks cited as “the most notor
ious, egregious example” the Jan.
26, 1972 bombing in New York
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ted States on tour. Hurok, who
was of Jewish descent, was in jured,
as were 13 others, and his com
pany’s Jewish receptionist. Iris
Kones, later died of smoke inhala
tion.
A 1982 report prepared by the
State Department's Threat Analy
sis Unit listed 99 acts it believed
were committed by JDL members
from 1969 to 1982, ranging from
bombing to an airplane hijacking
attempt.
They included three in San
Francisco, according to the report:
In 1978, the JDL allegedly ignited
flammable liquid at the entrance to
the Egyptian Consulate; a year
later, 13 J DL demonstrators reput
edly kicked in the front of the gate
of the Soviet Consulate during a
demonstration; and in 1981, the
JDL claimed credit for a bombing
at an Iranian bank.
This year, in his annual report to
the state legislature. Van de Ramp
linked the JDL w'ith the October
1985 bombing of the headquarters
of the American-Arab Anti-Dis
crimination Committee (ADC) in
Santa Ana that killed the group’s
regional director, Alex Odeh, and
wounded eight others. The night
before the bombing, Odeh had
appeared on television to defend
the Palestine Liberation Organiza
tion’s role in negotiating an end to
the hijacking of the Italian cruise
ship, the Achille Lauro.
JDL director Irving Rubin denied
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any connection with, and little re
morse over, Odeh’s death. “I’m not
sitting shiva for him,” he said, cit
ing the FBI’s recent retraction from
its earlier allegation that the JDL
was involved.
July 16, the FBI’s assistant ex
ecutive director, Oliver Revell, told
a House subcommittee that his
organization now is focusing its
investigation into the Odeh murder
on unspecified “Jewish extremists.”
“If the FBI has the evidence,
they should do something about it
instead of simply talking,” Rubin
said, adding, “I’m devastated by
Van de Kamp’s report, which
doesn’t have the decency to men
tion the FBI’s retraction. To put us
in the same league as neo-Nazis,
drug dealers, the syndicate and
motorcycle gangs is downright
obscene.”
Rubin, who was chosen in I985
by JDL founder Rabbi Meir Ka-
hane as the militant organization’s
head, admitted the JDL’s invol
vement in the New York City
bombing but claimed it was “an
accident.” In the case of the chief
tain of the ADC, who he main
tained had close ties to the PLO,
the 40-year-old JDL leader asked:
“Why would we take an unknow'n
figure like Alex Odeh and make,
him a martyr? It’s sheer insanity.”
The Jewish Defense Organiza
tion, a splinter group of the JDL
formed in 1982 because it felt that
the JDL wasn’t militant enough,
has been active in California in the
past, Sanderson admitted, but he
contended that “lately, they’ve been
quiet.”
Meanwhile, representatives of
mainstream Jewish organizations
in the Bay Area said they also think
the JDL merits close scrutiny,
voicing stern opposition to the
content and tactics of its activities.
“1 understand their theme of‘never
again,”’ said Robert Jacobitz, head
of the JCRC of the Greater East
Bay, “but in case after case, their
vigilante actions and their aggres
sive behavior actually hinder the
causes they're fighting for.
Winston Pickett is a staff w riter
for the Northern California Jew ish
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