White Civil Rights : The Website for Europeans and Americans Wherever They May Live

by Jeff Davis

An especially obnoxious Jewish Defense League member named Earl Leslie Krugel, aged 62, was sentenced to twenty years in prison for planning to blow up a mosque and the office of a Lebanese U. S. Congressman. Krugel was convicted of targeting the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City, California and the office of Congressman (Rep) Darrell Issa.

One news article reports “A member of the Jewish Defense League was sentenced today to 20 years for his role in a plot to blow up a Los Angeles-area mosque, the office of an Arab-American congressman, and the office of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC). Earl Krugel and the militant group’s leader, Irv Rubin, were charged in December 2001 with conspiring in the bomb plot. Rubin died a year later from injuries suffered in what authorities said was a jailhouse suicide attempt. Under his 2003 plea bargain, Krugel admitted conspiracy to violate the civil rights of worshippers at the King Fahd Mosque and also a weapons count tied to explosives that prosecutors said were meant for the field office of Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA)… The JDL has been responsible for at least 40 terrorist acts in the United States… The JDL is also suspected in the 1985 murder of Alex Odeh, the Southern Regional Director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC). Odeh was killed when a bomb exploded as he entered ADC’s Santa Ana office… At today’s sentencing, Krugel also revealed one name linked to the Odeh investigation that had not been previously known. The judge seriously admonished Krugel for withholding this information and for repeatedly failing polygraph tests.”

The craven, broken Krugel groveled in front of the judge in Los Angeles and begged for mercy, saying he was a changed man and had given up his hateful ways, but for once, the judge wasn’t buying. Krugel got a twenty year sentence and was dragged away to prison by the bailiffs.

Krugel’s original co-defendant in the case was the late Irv Rubin. On November 13th, 2002, Rubin took a swan dive off the top tier of the prison in which he was being held prior to trial. Apparently he realized the government wasn’t going to look the other way this time and he would not be allowed to flee to Israel.

It is almost unknown for Jewish terrorists to be severely punished in any way in this country. For many years, the Jewish Defense League carried out conspiracies to assault and disrupt rallies and functions of groups they disagreed with and did so with almost complete immunity to the law, whereas if the Klan or Nazis had done anything remotely similar they would have been sentenced to long prison terms for conspiracy alone.

The JDL carried out a terrorist campaign against Muslims and far right political activists in the United States for decades. JDL terrorist activities were an expected additional evil that many patriotic Americans had to face. Far right political activists saw the JDL as one more reason to fight the Zionists for as long as it takes to defeat them. The failure of law enforcement to seriously pursue the JDL (until recently) was a glaring hypocritical double standard and a stain on the record of law enforcement in America.

One of the JDL’s many victims, The Institute for Historical Review, bravely withstood JDL abuse and continued to expose historical lies surrounding the Holocaust regardless of the threats against them. Eventually the JDL became an embarrassment for top level Jews and the federal government. The Feds were allegedly “fighting a war on terror” since Sep. 11th, 2001 while JDL terrorists had been caught red-handed plotting to bomb a US Congressman’s office and blow up a mosque. The suicide of Irv Rubin along with the twenty year sentence of Earl Krugel suggests the JDL has finally lost its immunity from prosecution.