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Originally posted by MisterEbola
Jewish Defense League - hate group???
And, what is a "neo-confederate"???
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From the JDL's web site, outlining one of the five principles the JDL stands for:
BARZEL -- IRON
"JDL upholds the principle of Barzel -- iron -- the need to both move to help Jews everywhere and to change the Jewish image through sacrifice and all necessary means -- even strength, force and violence. The Galut image of the Jew as a weakling, as one who is easily stepped upon and who does not fight back is an image that must be changed. Not only does that image cause immediate harm to Jews but it is a self-perpetuating thing. Because a Jew runs away or because a Jew allows himself to be stepped upon, he guarantees that another Jew in the future will be attacked because of the image that he has perpetuated. JDL wants to create a physically strong, fearless and courageous Jew who fights back. We are changing an image, an image born of 2,000 years in the Galut, an image that must be buried because it has buried us. We train ourselves for the defense of Jewish lives and Jewish rights. We learn how to fight physically, for it is better to know how and not have to, than have to and not know how. "
The JDL is a political and paramilitary organization that advocates the use of violence and terror to silence those it labels as anti-semitic. I'll let you decide if that qualifies them as a hate group.
(You may be confusing them with folks like the Anti-Defamation League, an organization that tirelessly fights discrimination in ways most of us admire).
(edited to move the "Barzel" heading where it belongs)
