Talk:Jewish Defense League

JDL members have been accused of terrorist activity, beginning with bombing attacks on Soviet installations in the United States. More recently, its chairman, Irv Rubin, 56, and another member were arrested by members of a federal anti-terrorism task force (reported on December 12, 2001) on suspicion of plotting to bomb a Los Angeles mosque and the office of US Congressman Darrell Issa, a Christian of Arab-American descent.

Above would be improved by:

revealing who accused JDL members of terrorist activity.

saying something about the JDL's aims and history

As it is now, the article makes them sound like terrorists, no better than the 911 bombers. Was that the intent?

Now I have to fulfill Taw's pledge . . . Ed Poor

According to [1], JDL was originally founded as a vigilante group, and then progressed to burgulary against the PLO mission to the UN, and then on to terrorist bombings, shootings, arson and other attacks. I quote: "According to the FBI, the JDL was responsible for at least 37 terrorist acts in the United States in the period from 1968-1983, while the International Terrorism: Attributes of Terrorist Events (ITERATE) database developed on behalf of the United States Central Intelligence Agency by Edward F. Mickolus recorded 50 such incidents from 1968-1987, making the JDL second only to the Puerto Rican FALN (q.v.) as the major domestic terrorist group.... Bombings accounted for 78 percent of all JDL terrorist activities; shootings accounted for 16 percent; while arson attacks, vandalism, kidnapping, threats, and verbal harassment accounted for the rest." -- SJK

Thanks, I think. I am disappointed by what you added, because it is apparently true. I had wanted to think better of JDL. You've answered my "who accused" question, and all that remains is a couple of sentences on JDL's stated aims. Can we compromise on 25% JDL, 75% anti-JDL? (I'd call that NPOV enough for me.) --Ed Poor