League Jewish defense

The Jewish Defense League

The Jewish Defense League is founded in 1968 with New York (the United States) by the Rabbin, chief of the movement Israélien Kach, movement inspired by a radical vision of the religious Sionisme.

In the beginning, the Jewish Defense League was created like militant group of protection and self-defense of the orthodoxe Jews object of the attacks of various gangs of street, and to protest against the local demonstrations anti-semites. It widened then its sphere of activity, and defends the Jewish community of all threats which weigh on it, if need be by violent physical confrontation.

In practice, it gradually seemed an organization sister of Kach, organizing the support for Kach, and the Aliyah of its sympathizers.

In Israel, the Kach party sat at the Knesset of 1984 to 1988, then was interdict of election in 1988, and finally dissolved in 1994, for racism and incentive with violence. It is in addition listed like terrorist organization by the American State Department.

In 2001, the JDL was classified as terrorist organization by the FBI which indicated its responsibility in several bomb attacks made between 1980 and 1989. In December 2001, the president of the JDL, Irv Rubin, is stopped and put in examination to have projected attacks against a American Mosquée and the office of an American deputy of Lebanese origin. It commits suicide apparently in prison before its lawsuit; its family carried felt sorry for homicide, without success. Following this business, the JDL was the subject of a scission and a legal battle for the property of its initials and its logo.

The JDL was regarded as an active terrorist organization during two decades, according to the base of American knowledge TKB.

The French LDJ

In France, the LDJ consists of a few hundreds of active members, and according to its spokesperson Eliahou Tubiana, it gathers “former militants of the Betar”.

Their distinctive sign is the shield of David and a tight fist registered in black on yellow bottom. This emblem is a derivative of that of Kach.

According to the emission Complements of investigation devoted to the anti-semitism and diffused on France 2 on Monday, September 20, 2004, the members of the LDJ involve themselves with the combat in a French official building has Paris, where they follow courses of Krav maga, the martial art of the Israeli army.

The LDJ has an Internet site which belongs to association " Freedom Judaisme" democracy; domiciled in Paris 20th district. An association Liberté democracy Judaism (LDJ) having this address was declared in January 2001 with the prefecture of Paris but the dissolution of this association was declared on June 14th, 2003 with the prefecture of Paris. One can thus regard the LDJ as a grouping in fact.

Ideology

The ideology of the LDJ concerns the kahanism, of the name of the rabbi Meïr Kahana, Israeli deputy, author of nationalist writings ( The jewish idea , Never again! ). He was assassinated in 1990. She preaches the expulsion, which she names " transfert" , of the entirety of the Arab population of Eretz Israel. Its vision of Israel east that of large Israel asserting the annexation of Jordan, of Lebanon, of Syria and the Sinai. What would mean also the deportation of the populations of these countries outside the borders of this Large Israel.

The old movement of Meïr Kahana " Kach" was considered to be illegal in Israel.

The LDJ is opposed to ethnic co-education and categorically refuses the union of Jews with not-Jews. It estimates that the Jewish people must preserve his identity.

Apology for the self-defense

The Ligue of Jewish defense is presented in the form of a movement activist Zionist of self-defense. It thus encourages “the Jews of France to ensure by themselves their protection against their attackers” .

The basic thesis of LDJ , and the movements attached closely ideologically or by far to the movement of the Kach, is to affirm that the Jewish movement should not remain passive and subjected but defend itself. LDJ thinks thus that if the Jewish community, during the Thirties and Forties, had defended itself in a way radical and firm, if it had not remained passivates, there no would have been Jewish genocide and 6 million deaths.

LDJ thus gets busy with a true work of day before and defense Jewish community: muscular actions against the néo-Nazis, or other authors of matter or attitudes which she judges anti-semites or antisionists, in particular some Média S, personalities, or movements of extreme left or communautarists to the positions, according to her, antisionists or pro-Palestinian.

Contrary to the Betar which are close to the Likoud, and which regards the emigration towards Israel (the alyah) as “the result of the militancy” , the LDJ considers that the “Likoud is too soft” and does not incite the French Jews to emigrate towards the Hebrew State. “Jewish French and Israeli Juifs carry out the same fight against Islamic Fascism” . Showing the “Muslim population” to be “very mainly at the origin of the anti-Jewish actions” , it calls “the French Jews which remain in France to join the combat and to defend our ground and our culture never to have to undergo the Charia” . A speech which allures especially young disappointed Jews of the Betar.

According to Robert Tunics, one of his persons in charge, “the French government does not do anything to protect its citizens from Jewish confession and encourages the pogromists of the suburbs” . This situation, according to them, largely legitimates the recourse to the self-defense.

Controversies

In the United States, the League of Jewish defense was denounced a long time by its detractors like a movement Raciste and violent one, before even the charges of terrorism.

In France, taking into account violent acts charged to members of the French LDJ and ideological bringings together which are lent to this movement, certain associations like the Mouvement against racism and for the friendship between the people (MRAP) or the Ligue of the human rights (LDH) claim its dissolution.

Activities in France

March 26th, 2002 : A hundred people, according to the police force, expressed with the call of the League of Jewish defense, in front of the seat of the Agence France-Press in Paris, showing the agency of “misinformation” in the cover of the israélo-Palestinian conflict, brought back the AFP. The LDJ estimated that “AFP is the primary source of the misinformation in France”. The “Goebbels price of the misinformation” was given by a collective of organizations gathering the Association for the Wellbeing of the Israeli soldier, Avocats without borders (French association, distinct from ONG éponyme), the League of Jewish defense, Migdal, UPJF at the Agency France-Press (AFP) and the journalist of France 2 in load of the israélo-Palestinian Conflit, Charles Enderlin.

In October 2002 , certain movements Zionists extremists such as the Ligue of Jewish Defense allotted to Charles Enderlin, the " Goebbels price of Désinformation" for its report diffused on France 2 allotting the death of small Mohammed to Tsahal.

on November 1st, 2004 , manifest about fifty people in front of the Percy hospital of Clamart (Hauts-de-Seine) to denounce the presence of Yasser Arafat, come to be made look after, by stressing “Arafat, bastard, the Jews will have your skin”, “Arafat assassin”, “Israel will overcome”. They were finally pushed back by of CRS. According to police officers on the spot, the demonstrators would belong to the League of Jewish defense. (Source: AFP November 1st, 2004)

Judgments

the United States, February 4th, 2003 : Earl Krugel, stopped at the same time as Irv Rubin, pleads guilty preparation of attacks and is condemned to twenty years of prison. He is assassinated in prison by a fellow-prisoner in 2005.

France, December 30th, 2003 : students of an association antisionist of extreme left of Nanterre (AGEN), were violently attacked inside the administrative court of Paris by members of the LDJ according to AGEN, the Observatoire of the communautarism, indymedia, the CAPJPO. The victims of the aggression recognized active elements of the UEJF Nanterre, of which one of the persons in charge, accompanied by the LDJ within the group of the attackers. The 10th Criminal Court of the Court of Bankruptcy of Paris condemned, on September 16th, 2004, a militant of the LDJ in 10 months of suspended sentence and 2 years of testing period. He had been recognized by the four students victims as joint author of the aggression. A student of Palestinian origin had been seriously wounded with the right eye. The militant was defended by Master Gilles-William Goldnadel. Moreover, it will have to pour with the four civil parts of the sums rising of 1300 to 3000 euros. The 10 months of suspended sentence and two years sorrow of “testing period” of a member of the League of Jewish defense will be confirmed on March 1st, 2005, with the court of Paris, the interested party and his lawyer, having given up appealing.

Supposed violences

The name of the LDJ was quoted in connection with the violent acts listed below by various sources (associations, police sources, journalists and other witnesses), without a legal decision not being able to confirm the effective membership of the authors with the LDJ.

April 7th, 2002 : at the time of the manifestation of CRIF “ against terrorism and the anti-semitism with Israel, for peace and its safety ”, which gathered more than 50.000 people in Paris according to the police force, a police superintendent was seriously wounded with the knife. The presumed author would be an extremist pro-Israeli of Betar or LDJ, according to various witnesses. The Minister of Interior Department, Daniel Vaillant reaffirmed his “ whole support for the police force which has the delicate mission of ensuring public peace ”. Reporters without borders asked for to the public prosecutor of Paris the opening of an investigation, following violences whose several journalists covering the demonstration were victims. According to association, a cameraman of Spanish television Antena 3 was passed to tobacco “ through members of the service of order of the demonstration who carried arm-bands ”. Ten journalists and technicians of the chain France 2 were taken with part, of which a cameraman of origin inhabitant of Guadeloupe, which underwent racist insults. A photographer working for an Internet site was struck with kicks. A demonstrator was more slightly reached of a stab with Marseilles where 10 000 people ravelled. Jean-Paul Proust, prefect of police of Paris deplores that “a core from 400 to 500 people belonging to movements extremists pro-Israelis, organized as very mobile commandos, did not cease causing during several hours. They attacked at the security service of CRIF, the police officers, the journalists and with all those which in the ethnic plan they did not like”
Dix people were challenged but only an activist was condemned to four months of prison including two with deferment and two years of setting to the test with care obligation psychiatric and prohibition to hold a weapon. He was judged in immediate appearance, Tuesday, April 9, 2002, in front of the 23e room of the Court of Bankruptcy of Paris, for prohibited wearing of weapon. The presumed author of the aggression against the police superintendent was not arrêté.
Le MRAP asks, on Monday, April 8, the dissolution of the League of Jewish defense, showing this organization to have led a “ true hunting to the facies ” and “ Ratonnade S in the streets of Paris ”. Several testimonys report, indeed, that young people vêtus of the yellow Tee-shirt of the LDJ continued and struck people of Maghrebian origin in margin of the demonstration, the place of the Bastille and in the close streets. The demonstrators of a gathering organized by the pacifist movement peace now also were taken with part (source: Le Monde April 9th, 2002) .

September 30th, 2003 : witnesses of the lawsuit of Alexandre Attali, manager of the amisraelhai.org site which called with the tabassage Jews openly hostile in the State of Israel in particular Rony Brauman and Michel Warschawski - would have been threatened in the enclosure even of the court of Paris by members of the LDJ, according to AGEN, CAPJPO and certain witnesses with the court.

October 7th, 2003 : during a demonstration framed by organizations pro-Israelis in front of the seat of the Palestinian delegation in France in Paris, of the members of the LDJ and Betar, according to the CAPJPO and the Observatory of the communautarism, pro-Palestinian militants and pacifist Jewish militants of organization would have attacked.

November 13rd, 2003 : the president of the Movement against racism and for the friendship between people (MRAP) Mouloud Aounit was attacked at the institute of the Valley Mandé (Holy Mandé, Val de Marne). Before penetrating in the room, and apart from the enclosure, of the helmeted individuals insulted it and spit to him above, before striking two punches to him. Mouloud Aounit since carried felt sorry for. The MRAP declared that it was members about the LDJ, but without bringing the proof of it.

September 28th, 2004 : a group made up from 20 to 30 “young people” attacked the bookstore With the Country of Feast , street Vieille of the Temple in Paris, where the writer Alain Soral took part in a meeting of dedications. These young people, who according to the information brought back by the newspaper Release, the proche-orient.info site and the Observatory of the communautarism, would belong to the League of Jewish defense (LDJ) or to Betar, put at bag the bookstore after having broken its window, and having attacked the people come to be made dedicate a book, making six slightly injureds. A complaint was deposited. At the day of October 5th, 2004, no interpellation took place. The aggression was condemned by the Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë. '' (See it video) '' (Source: release, observatory of the communautarism, proche-orient.info )

March 2nd, 2005 : 4 individuals who would be, according to Proche-orient.info and the Observatory of the communautarism, members or close to the LDJ, attacked the humorist Dieudonné the day of its arrival in Martinique for a/>Deux tournée.
In the vehicle used by the attackers to track since the airport and to attack Dieudonné knives were which were recovered by the police force: flick knifes, American blow-of-fist, nunshaku; all bought the very same day.
( source: Proche-orient.info and observatory of the communautarism )

See too

Kach
Betar
Tagar

External bonds

==> Site of the League of French Jewish Defense
the Observatory of the communautarism which denounces the activities of the LDJ
fascinating part against the LDJ
of the League of Jewish defense
Reportage on the League of Jewish defense

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