Right-Wing Terrorist Group “Jewish Defense League” (JDL)

Does Not Represent Views of Jewish People

Right-Wing Terrorist Group “Jewish Defense League” (JDL) Does Not Represent Jewish People

The so called “Jewish Defense League” or “JDL” has been characterized as “a right-wing terrorist
group” by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and as a hate group involved in “anti-Arab
terrorism” by the Southern Poverty Law Center. According to the FBI, the JDL has been involved in
plotting terrorist attacks within the United States. The group is also involved in promoting hatred of
Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) people (Bosniakophobia), a widespread denials of the Srebrenica genocide,
and supporting former nazi collaborators – Serbian Chetniks.
The 1994 Cave of the Patriarchs Massacre, in which dozens of Palestinian civilians at prayer were
massacred by a gunman in the West Bank city of Hebron, was perpetrated by a one-time JDL member
who had emigrated from the United States, Baruch Goldstein. The JDL maintains, on its website, “we
are not ashamed to say that Goldstein was a charter member of the Jewish Defense League.”
According to Jewish anti-hate organization – Anti-Defamation League (ADL) – the “JDL” group
consists only of “thugs and hooligans.”
According to the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs,
“In a 1986 study of domestic terrorism, the Department of Energy concluded: ‘For more than a decade,
the Jewish Defense League (JDL) has been one of the most active terrorist groups in the United
States….Since 1968, JDL operations have killed 7 persons and wounded at least 22. Thirty-nine
percent of the targets were connected with the Soviet Union; 9 percent were Palestinian; 8 percent were
Lebanese; 6 percent, Egyptian; 4 percent, French, Iranian, and Iraqi; 1 percent, Polish and German; and
23 percent were not connected with any states. Sixty-two percent of all JDL actions are directed against
property; 30 percent against businesses; 4 percent against academics and academic institutions; and 2
percent against religious targets.” (Department of Energy, Terrorism in the United States and the
Potential Threat to Nuclear Facilities, R-3351-DOE, January 1986, pp. 11-16)
Read more: “Jewish Defence League”, Wikipedia