Jewish Defense League attacks Arab-owned store in France

[Scurrilous]

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"Four French Jews, members of the Jewish Defense League, attacked and vandalized a book store in France owned by a pro-Palestinian Arab couple.

The four Jewish Defense League (JDL) members, age 16 – 26, were arrested after allegedly breaking into the store on Saturday wearing masks, smashing computers with clubs and setting fire to the books and merchandise.

On Wednesday, supporters of the store owners held a rally outside the store, saying that supporters of Palestinian rights refuse to be intimidated by the strong-arm tactics of the JDL.

The US branch of the Jewish Defense League has been described by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the US as a terrorist organization, due to the group’s use of violence to achieve political objectives."

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[LeftishBrit]

1. Disgusting

'The US branch of the Jewish Defense League has been described by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the US as a terrorist organization,'

They are also banned as terrorists in Israel. They should be banned everywhere.

[Ken Burch]

2. Their Israeli political grouping, the Kach Party, is also banned

Although a lot of Kachite ideas seem to be popular within Avigdor Lieberman's party.

[47of74]

3. The SPLC has also listed them as a hate group

The Southern Poverty Law Center has also listed the Jewish Defense League as a hate group for a number of years now.

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/map/type.jsp?DT=24

[Violet_Crumble]

5. They're not listed as a terrorist organisation by the EU?

If they're not, they definately should be...

[shira]

6. couldn't agree more. +1

[shaayecanaan]

4. The one Palestinian restaurant in New York...

describes itself as "middle Eastern cuisine with a Mediterranean flavour". Wink and nudge.

A Palestinian cafe owner called Sam actually rang the JDL's telephone number, wanting to know why he was being harrassed by Jewish roughs when he had, after all, done what Jewish ultranationalists had wanted him to do by leaving Palestine. JDL boss Irv Rubin was so impressed with that logic he took Sam under his arm, getting the local boys to leave him alone. All Arabs should do like Sam did and leave Israel for a better life elsewhere, said Irv. That was their moderate phase. Very BNPish. They seem to be back to harrassing Arabs again.