Word: jdl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dershowitz said he may also defend Miler Kahane, head of the Jewish Defense League (JDL), against a U.S. government attempt to revoke his parole for a crime he was convicted of in Israel...
Dershowitz two years ago headed the defense of two JDL members charged with the murder, by bombing, of a secretary in the New York office of ballet and art entreprneur Sol Hurok...
...still agrees in general with the JDL's politics and programs, which include training New York children in military tactics and hand-to-hand combat and demonstrating against and occupying the Russian embassy...
However, Bloom's old friends from the Jewish defense League haven't been very active in supporting the Israeli war effort; most of them prefer to work through the more established channels of Hillel. The JDL is not an official undergraduate organization at Harvard, and although at times it has been very active it is rather loosely organized now. Bloom left the JDL last year because, he says, "I was spending more time on the JDL than on school...
...kids in those camps are from the Lower East Side, and they have to know how to protect themselves. We were working in Boston on protecting elderly Jews in Mattapan and Dorchester who were getting attacked on the street just like the kids in the camps were. The JDL has done a lot to inspire the young Jews in America and to get Russia to let the Soviet Jews emigrate." Defending world Jewry is, for Bloom, a very important and very serious business, especially where Israel is involved. Bloom called Israel "the only country in the world faced with total...