Thanks to American Jew, Jacob Forrest, for his amazing research on the history of terrorism made by Zionist party aka JDL (Jewish Defense League).
The Jewish Defense League, a timeline of terrorism
The Jewish Defense League (JDL) is a far-right religious Zionist, terrorist organization founded by Brooklyn-born Rabbi Meir Kahane in 1968.
Kahane formed the organization in response to tensions between Jews and black people on the streets of Brooklyn, forming militias to patrol Jewish neighborhoods. From its outset, the JDL has been involved in numerous acts of terrorism and violence both in the United States and occupied Palestine.
October 6th 1970: JDL bombs the New York office of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Appromixately a half hour before the explosion, an anonymous person called the office and proclaimed the JDL slogan, "Never again."
January 8th 1971: Soviet cultural center in Washington, D.C. is bombed, followed by a phone call to the including the JDL slogan "Never again." A JDL spokesperson denied the group's involvement in the bombing, but refused to condemn it. Soon-to-be Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, praises the act.
September 1971: Following charges and conviction of conspiring to manufacture explosives, Rabbi Kahane flees to Israel with his family and forms the "Kach" party. Kach adopts the JDL logo as their own.
January 26th, 1972: The Manhattan offices of talent impresario Sol Hurok were firebombed by the JDL for this role in importing Soviet artists. His Jewish secretary, 27 year-old Iris Jones, dies from smoke inhalation and 13 others are injured.
July 17th, 1980: a mail bomb linked to members of the JDL exploded at a Manhattan Beach, California, computer firm, killing 35 year-old secretary Patricia Wilkerson, JDL member Robert Manning had intended the bomb to be for the company's owner, whom he was involved in a business dispute with. He eventually flees to the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
October 26th, 1981: Two firebombs damage the Egyptian tourist office at Rockefeller Center in New York. The next day an anonymous caller claimed responsibility on behalf of the JDL.
April 11th, 1982: American born JDL member and immigrant to Israel, Alan Harry Goodman, opens fire with his military issue rifle at the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, killing 1 Palestinian and injuring 4.
July 1984: JDL founder Rabbi Meir Kahane wins 25,000 votes and a seat in the Israeli Knesset. The Kach part promises to expel all Palestinians from "Israel" and the occupied territories and establish Jewish theocracy.
October 11th, 1985: Palestinian activist and regional director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Alex Odeh, is assassinated by mail bombing at his office in Santa Ana, California. Robert Manning, and other JDL members living in the settlement of "Kiryat Arba" are suspected of the murder.
November 5th, 1990: Rabbi Meir Kahane is assassinated at a Marriott Hotel on Manhattan's East Side at the end of a speech in front of his supporters.
February 25th, 1994: Baruch Goldstein, an American-born JDL member and Kach supporter, murders 30 Palestinians at the Ibrahimi Mosque. Israel and the United States outlaw the JDL and Kach movement as terrorist organizations.
November 4th, 1995: Yigal Amir, a Kach sympathizer assassinates Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin for his signing of the Oslo Accords with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
November 2001: Two months after 9/11, the JDL plotted to bomb the King Fahad Mosque in Culver City, California. Their plot would be foiled by FBI informants.
February 2009: Israeli politician Michael ?Ben-Ari is elected a member of the Knesset on an openly Kahanist platform.
November 2012: Michael Ben-Ari forms "Otzma Yehudit", or the "Jewish Power" party in Hebrew. They advocated for deporting "all enemies of Israel", including Palestinians who are "disloyal". They are the ideological descendant of Kach.
March 2021: Itamar Ben-Cvir, (banned from the IDF for convictions of supporting terrorism) wins a seat in the Knesset for the Jewish Power party.
November 2022: Jewish Power and the Religious Zionist party merge and win 14 seats. Itamar Ben-Gvir becomes Israeli Minister of National Security.
October 2023-present day: Israeli settlers and right-wing Zionist politicians embrace Kahanist rhetoric as state sanctioned pogroms surge across the West Bank.
May 2024: Reuven Kahane, a second cousin of the late Meir Kahane, is charged with driving his car into a crowed of pro-Palestinian protestors in New York. The charges are eventually dismissed.
March 26th, 2026: JDL members in New Jersey attempt to assassinate Palestinian activist Nerdeen Kiswani at her home in New York. The FBI foils the plot.
The legacy of the Jewish Defense League has been terrorism, and it continues to unfold to this very day.
The letter "D" is a joke from the Zionist party.
Come on like seriously? That group don't seem like defending themselves from Hamas or PLO. More like terrorizing their Muslim neighbor over the years.
