* 1932 – Meir Kahane, American rabbi and activist, founder of the Jewish Defense League ( d. 1990 )

One of the unofficial slogans of the Jewish Defense League was " Bombs for balalaikas "..

Arab attacks on isolated Jewish settlements and the British failure to protect them led to the creation of the Haganah (" Defense "), a mainly socialist underground Jewish militia dedicated to defending Jewish settlements.

In 1972 Jewish Defense League leaflets were distributed around Hebron calling for the mayor to stand trial for the 1929 Hebron massacre.

Furthermore, the Jewish Defense League was suspected of plotting to bomb the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City, California.

Kahane founded both the Jewish Defense League ( JDL ) in the USA and Kach (" This is the Way "), an Israeli political party.

Kahane founded the Jewish Defense League ( JDL ) in New York City in 1968.

In 1972, Jewish Defense League leaflets were distributed in Hebron, calling for mayor to stand trial for the 1929 Hebron massacre.

Kahanism is an nationalist ideology based on the views of Meir Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense League and the Kach party in Israel, who said that the State of Israel must defend itself against its enemies.

* Jewish Defense League, American militant-activist group founded by Meir Kahane in 1968

Kahane Net, the Jewish Defense League and B ' nai Elim ( formed by former JDL activists ) are occasionally associated with Kahanism.

When Redgrave was nominated for an Oscar in 1978, for her role in Julia, members of the Jewish Defense League ( JDL ), led by Rabbi Meir Kahane, burned effigies of Redgrave and picketed the Academy Awards ceremony to protest against both Redgrave and her support of the Palestinian cause.

To this day some Jewish groups, such as the Jewish Defense League, consider Redgrave an opponent and a supporter of terrorism, citing remarks she has made such as, " Zionism is a brutal, racist ideology.

June-Violent confrontation between the Israel Defense Forces ( IDF ) under the command of David Ben-Gurion, and the paramilitary Jewish group Irgun known as The Altalena Affair results in the dismantlement of the Irgun, Lehi, and all Israeli paramilitary organizations operating outside the IDF.

Ben-Gurion led Israel during the 1948 Arab – Israeli War, and united the various Jewish militias into the Israel Defense Forces ( IDF ).

One of Rahman's followers, El Sayyid Nosair, was linked to the assassination of Israeli nationalist Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense League.

Irving D. Rubin ( April 12, 1945 – November 13, 2002 ) was chairman of the Jewish Defense League ( JDL ) from 1985 to 2002.

* Jewish Defense League Biography

Defense of others is called pikuach nefesh in Jewish law.

A group calling itself the " Jewish Armed Resistance Movement " claimed responsibility for the arson attack ; according to the Toronto Sun, the group had ties to the Jewish Defense League and to the extremist group Kahane Chai.

** Amicus Brief on the Merits ( American Jewish Congress, American Jewish Committee, Anti-Defamation League, and Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America )

Many Jewish academics and intellectuals studied and taught at CUNY in the post-World War I era when Ivy League universities, such as Yale University, discriminated against Jews.

He remained a devoted Catholic while a student, and spent most of his leisure time with members of his fencing fraternity, the " League of Apollo ", the president of which was Jewish.

Jewish fans in Detroit —- and around the American League for that matter — took to Greenberg almost at once, offering him everything from free meals to free cars, all of which he refused.

* Jewish Major League career leaders

He was playing a double-game, being just as much in contact with the Jewish authorities as with the Arab League.

It also was granted League of Nations mandates over Palestine, which was turned into a homeland for Jewish settlers, and Iraq, created from the three Ottoman provinces in Mesopotamia.

The university became a favored choice for bright Jewish students from New York in the 1920s and 1930s when the Ivy League schools had quotas restricting the number of Jews to be admitted.

As a result, Britain pooled its energy into winning over Arab opinions by abandoning the Balfour Declaration and the terms of the League of Nations mandate which had been entrusted to it in order to create a " Jewish National Home ".

The Anti-Defamation League and Chabad have also honored King Boris III for refusing to sacrifice his Jewish subjects to the Nazi juggernaut.

Her father, a pioneering interpreter who worked in the League of Nations, was a French-born Jewish army officer of Polish descent, who brought the family to Neuilly-sur-Seine on the outskirts of Paris.

JDL members led protests against anti-Semitic teachers in the public school system, provided escorts for elderly Jews and educated Jewish youth in the art of self-defense.

JDL organized mass rallies in New York against the Soviet Union's policy of persecuting Zionist activists and curbing Jewish immigration to Israel.

JDL also protested against the oppression of Jewish population in Muslim countries, fought Neo-Nazis in the United States and resisted Christian missionaries ' activity to convert Jews.

However, according to the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles, Gillis was a former JDL member who joined the organization due to conflicts with white skinheads.

After Dr. Dre left Ruthless Records, executives Mike Klein and Jerry Heller sought assistance from the Jewish Defense League ( JDL ).

Hashim Nzingh, Shabazz's chief of staff, blamed Jewish groups for the incident, stating in a telephone interview that " they let these groups like the ADL ( Anti-Defamation League ) and the JDL ( Jewish Defense League ), which is nothing but a bunch of gangsters, dictate what happens in the world today ," and " they told Canada not to let us in and Canada followed their rules, because this country is run from Israel.

In 1971, Colombo aligned the League with Rabbi and political activist Meir Kahane's Jewish Defense League ( JDL ), claiming that both groups were being harassed by the federal government.

On his way to an April 19, 2007 Ontario College of Teachers hearing into his conduct, Fromm was in a scuffle with Jewish Defense League ( JDL ) members in an elevator.

Members of the Jewish Defense League ( JDL ), led by Rabbi Meir Kahane, showed up carrying chains and clubs promising to confront Forman if he attempted to enter the synagogue.

Victor Vancier ( born December 25, 1956 ), commonly referred to by his Hebrew name, Chaim Ben Pesach () is an American political activist and the founder and director of the United States-based Kahanist organization, Jewish Task Force ( JTF ) and the former National Chairman of the Jewish Defense League ( JDL ) in the United

Schmidt claimed the Jewish Defense League carried out the attack, a claim the JDL rejected.

It is one of two United States offshoots of the Jewish Defense League ( JDL ) after a breaking with the JDL's former leader Meir Kahane.

The Kahanist movement – comprising the Jewish Defense League ( JDL ) and the Jewish Defense Organization ( JDO ) in the United States, the Kach ( Hebrew for " thus " or " this is the way ") Party in Israel, and the Kahane Chai (" Kahane Lives ") group, founded after Kahane's murder and operating both in Israel and in the U. S. – has spanned 26 years, reflecting a consistent agenda of hate, fear-mongering and intimidation.