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  • About Right-Wing Monitor
  • American College of Pediatricians
  • American Family Association
  • American Freedom Party
  • Arizona Border Recon
  • Arizona Viper Militia
  • Boogaloo Movement
  • Council of Conservative Citizens
  • Family Watch International
  • Hammerskins
  • Hutaree Militia
  • Idaho Light Foot Militia
  • Jewish Defense League
  • Kentucky Viper Militia
  • Ku Klux Klan
  • League of the South
  • Michigan Militia
  • New York Light Foot Militia
  • Not Fucking Around Coalition
  • Nuwaubian Nation of Moors
  • Oath Keepers
  • Patriot Front
  • Proud Boys
  • Three Percenters
  • Westboro Baptist Church
  • Wolverine Watchmen
Jewish Defense League (JDL) is a JJewish religious-political organization in the United States, whose stated goal is to "protect Jews from antisemitism by whatever means necessary". JDL is classified as "a right wing terrorist group" by the FBI since 2001,[2] and has been designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.[3]

According to the FBI, the JDL has been involved in plotting and executing acts of terrorism within the United States.[2][4] Most terrorism watch groups classify the group as inactive.

Founded by Rabbi Meir Kahane in New York City in 1968, the JDL's self-described purpose was to protect Jews from local manifestations of antisemitism.[1][6] Its criticism of the Soviet Union increased support for the group, transforming it from a "vigilante club" into an organization with a stated membership numbering over 15,000 at one point.[7]

The group took to bombing Arab and Soviet properties in the United States,[8] and targeting various alleged "enemies of the Jewish people", ranging from Arab-American political activists to neo-Nazis, for assassination.[9] A number of JDL members have been linked to violent, and sometimes deadly, attacks in the United States and in other countries, including the murder of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee regional director Alex Odeh in 1985, the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre in 1994, and a plot to assassinate Congressman Darrell Issa in 2001.[10]

Several JDL members and leaders died violent deaths, including Kahane himself, who was assassinated by an Arab-American gunman.[11]
According to the Anti-Defamation League, the JDL consists only of "thugs and hooligans".[12]

The group's founder, Meir Kahane, "preached a radical form of Jewish nationalism which reflected racism, violence and political extremism," attitudes that were replicated by Irv Rubin, the successor to Kahane.

Allies: Kentucky Viper Militia, Tri-States Coalition
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