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The '''Jewish Defense Organization''' is a [[militant]] [[Jew]]ish organization in the [[United States]]. It is right-wing in its stance on [[Israel]]i defense and foreign policy issues. Its positions on issues of Jewish concern in the United States are more nuanced, and it has criticized both right-wing and left-wing manifestations of what it sees as anti-Semitism and racism with equal rhetorical fervor. The JDO takes no stance on most domestic U.S. issues unless they relate directly to the fight against anti-Semitism, or [[Zionism]] -- the JDO has targeted other Jewish organizations that it deems to be insufficiently supportive of the [[Vladimir Jabotinsky|Jabotinskyite]] form of Zionism. Another exception is gun control, which the group strongly opposes. It has worked with both left-wing and right-wing Jews on problems involving bigotry. |
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The JDO's security team has occasionally patrolled Jewish neighborhoods in the aftermath of [[Anti-Semitism|anti-Semitic]] incidents, and has urged other Jewish groups to do likewise. <ref>Robert Fleming, "Jews Begin Patrol," New York Daily News, Jan. 4, 1988</ref><ref>"Jewish Militant Group Urges American Jews to Arm After Attempted Massacre of Jewish Children by Neo-Nazi Group," Jewish Press, Aug. 20, 1999</ref> JDO members attempted to help provide security in [[Crown Heights, Brooklyn|Crown Heights]] during the 1991 [[Crown Heights Riot]].<ref>Jonathan Mark, "Crown Heights: A Deadly Confrontation," Jewish Week, Aug. 23, 1991</ref> The group has engaged in fights against [[Neo-Nazism|neo-Nazis]] and [[white power skinhead]]s in [[Las Vegas, Nevada|Las Vegas]] and other cities.<ref>Joe Schoenmann, "White Fright: Is Las Vegas seeing an influx of skinheads?" Las Vegas Weekly, June 28, 2005 at [http://lasvegasweekly.com]</ref><ref>"Call to Arms Overreach," editorial, Las Vegas Review, March 29, 1989.</ref> It has also demonstrated, although without incident, against [[Louis Farrakhan]] in [[New York City]].<ref>[http://queenstribune.com/news/1129219471.html : 1129219471<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>"Protesting the Million Man March," King's Courier, Brooklyn, NY, Oct. 23, 1995</ref> The JDO often gives its demonstrations pseudo-military names such as "Operation Klan Kicker" or "Operation Nazi Kicker" |
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In 2004, the JDO held rallies at an apartment house on [[Manhattan]]'s Upper West Side, where a neo-Nazi activist and aggressive [[Holocaust denial|Holocaust denier]] ran his operation.<ref>Julie Satow, "Protestors Call for Eviction of Holocaust Revisionist," New York Sun, Oct. 25, 2004</ref> In 1989, it launched a boycott of the rap group [[Public Enemy (band)|Public Enemy]] in response to allegedly anti-Semitic remarks by [[Professor Griff]], its self-styled Minister of Information.<ref>Powell, Catherine T., "Rap Music: An Education with a Beat from the Street," 1991 Journal of Negro Education 60(3):245-259 quoted in [http://www.cas.sc.edu/socy/faculty/deflem/zzcens97.htm]</ref><ref>[http://robertchristgau.com/xg/music/pe-law.php Robert Christgau: The Shit Storm: Public Enemy<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> As a result of the media controversy, Griff was temporarily left the band, and Public Enemy apologized for his remarks. |
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The JDO has adopted a tactic of pressuring hotels and other public facilities to cancel meetings sponsored by anti-Semites such as [[David Duke]].<ref>[http://forward.com/issues/2003/03.02.28/news3.html Jewish News, Jewish Newspapers - Forward.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> In early 2004, the JDO waged a phone-in campaign to pressure a Florida company to remove billboard messages sponsored by the [[National Alliance (United States)|National Alliance]], an organization widely regarded as neo-Nazi. <ref>Jacob Ogles, "Neo-Nazis' Billboard to Come Down," Orlando Sentinel, Jan. 15, 2004</ref><ref>[http://jdo.org/archive.htm hibernate jdo cache persistence orm at jdo.org<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> In September 2006 Columbia University scrapped plans for an address by Iranian President [[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]] because of security and logistical problems. The move came as the JDO expressed outrage that the hard-line leader had been invited to speak. <ref>Columbia scraps plans for speech by Iranian president amid criticism from Jewish group |
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The Associated Press FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2006 </ref> |
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In late 2006 the JDO initiated Operation Screwball, aimed at the small [[Haredi Judaism|Haredi Jewish]] group [[Neturei Karta]]. In 2007, the JDO helped organize a demonstration in which several hundred Orthodox Jews protested against Neturei Karta, some of whose members had attending a [[Holocaust denial]] conference in [[Iran]]. The protesters shouted "Nazi traitors! Go back to Iran! You are killing Jews!" at members of Neturei Karta in the Rockland County community of Monsey.<ref>fernanda Santos. [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/15/nyregion/15rabbi.html?_r=1&fta=y&oref=slogin Friends in Iran Make for Discord at Home.] ''The New York Times''. January 15, 2007</ref><ref>By ABBY LUBY<BR>SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Sunday, January 7th, 2007 </ref> On January 14, 2007 some 200 JDO members and sympathizers gathered outside a Brooklyn hotel to protest the presence of [[Moshe Aryeh Friedman]], an anti-Israel rabbi who spoke at a Holocaust-denial conference in Iran. <ref>RALLY RIPS HOLOCAUST-DENY RABBI By ERIN CALABRESE NY POST January 14, 2007</ref> |
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In June 2007, [[New York City Police]] investigated the JDO after it plastered fliers over Brooklyn Councilman Charles Barron's office, calling him an anti-Semite for voting for a defeated proposal to name a street after controversial [[Black nationalism|black nationalist]] activist Sonny Carson. <ref>NY Post June 14, 2007 JEWISH GROUP VS. BARRON By PATRICK GALLAHUE and PHILIP MESSING </ref> |
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===Allegations of fueling racial unrest=== |
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Levy and the JDO's involvement led to accusations that the group inflamed divisions at Rutgers University in 1995, where African American students had protested against comments made by then-President [[Francis_L._Lawrence#Presidency_of_Rutgers|Francis L. Lawrence]] that were perceived as anti-Black. The JDO accused the protesting Black students of themselves being racist and anti-Semitic. Levy's involvement was met apprehension by some members of the Rutgers Jewish community. Rabbi Norman Weitzner of Rutgers Hillel felt there was no anti-Semitism involved and noted "The JDO sees anti-Semitism at the drop of a hat, when it may not actually exist." The interim director of Rutgers Hillel said at the time that Levy "thinks he's going to wake up the Jewish students. What's going to happen is that he's going to start a racial war."<ref>Raff, Lisa. JDO refuels racial fire at Rutgers University. ''MetroWest Jewish News''. Mar 2, 1995</ref> |
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==Mordechai Levy== |
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{{main|Mordechai Levy}} |
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Mordechai" Levy is the founder and current leader of the JDO, and the only JDO member to receive substantial notice in the press. He spends much of his time promoting the JDO's [[Camp Jabotinsky]], which provides self-defense and gun training for young Jews at a facility in the Catskills. Levy is an avid follower of [[Ze'ev Jabotinsky]], after whom the camp is named, and often repeats Jabotinsky's motto: "Better to know how to shoot and not need to, than to need to and not know how."<ref>[http://jdo.org/jab.htm hibernate jdo cache persistence orm at jdo.org<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> |
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==External links== |
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* http://jewishdefense.org/ |
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==Footnotes== |
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{{reflist}} |
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[[Category:Jewish political organizations]] |
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[[Category:Militant Zionist groups]] |
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