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Jewish Defence League in France Organising Militia to West Bank in September

By Sergio Yahni | Alternative Information Center | 12 September 2011

The Jewish Defence League in France published an ad on 3 September calling on activists with a military background to join a solidarity trip to “Judea and Samaria” between 19-25 September 2011.

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According to the notice, published on the website of the Jewish Defence League (JDL), the trip “is intended for those with military experience in order to assist our brethren struggling with the attacks of the Palestinian occupiers and thus to contribute to the security of the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria”.

The JDL is a radical right-wing movement founded in the United States by Rabbi Meir Kahane in 1968. Members of the JDL were involved in violent actions in the United States, including the 1985 murder of the regional director of the Arab American Committee against Discrimination, Alex Odeh. In 2001 the organization was defined as a terrorist group by the US federal authorities after a connection to the murder of Republican Congressman from California, Darrell Issa, was discovered.

The French branch of the JDL was founded in 2000 under the name “Liberty, Democracy and Judaism”. In 2002, Channel 2 France published a piece which exposed that members of the French group were undergoing military training.

After the immigration of Rabbi Kahane to Israel, and Israeli branch of the JDL was established under the name Kach (this is the way). The movement was banned in 1988 and in 1994, after the slaughter in Hebron’s Ibrahimi Mosque,the movement was defined as a terrorist organization.

The enlistment of activists with a military background to assist the settlers represents a serious escalation of the activities of radical settler groups.

Translated to English by the Alternative Information Center (AIC)

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