Symbol Type
Zionist Symbol
Also Known As
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Traditional Use/Origins
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Hate Group/ Extremist Organization
Xenophobics, isolationists, fundamentalists. Kahane, its former leader, consistently preached a radical form of Jewish nationalism which reflected violence and political extremism.
Extremist Meaning or Representation
A fist inside a Star of David, Israeli power symbol.
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Background/ History
The Jewish Defense League, also known as JDL, was established in 1968 for the declared purpose of protecting Jews by whatever means necessary in the face of what was seen by the group’s principals as their dire peril. The founder, national chairman and leader of the JDL was a then-38-year-old ordained rabbi from Brooklyn, New York, Meir Kahane, who, in 1990, was assassinated in New York by an Arab extremist.
In Rabbi Kahane’s mind, American Jews were living in a fiercely hostile society, facing much the same dangers as the Jews in Nazi Germany or those in Israel surrounded by 100-million Arab enemies. Rabbi Kahane believed that the major Jewish organizations in the United States had failed to protect America’s Jews from anti-Semitism, which he saw as “exploding” all over the country.
Aditional Information
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