Mordechai Levy and the Jewish Defense Organization have a long record of crime and violence. For example, Levy served 18 months of a four-and-a-half year sentence for felony assault with a deadly weapon in a shooting incident in New York City in August 1989. Here, below, is a selection of news reports about Levy and the JDO. Click the image to view the entire article.
| |  | Mordechai Levy and the Jewish Defense Organization have a long record of crime and violence. For example, Levy served 18 months of a four-and-a-half year sentence for felony assault with a deadly weapon in a shooting incident in New York City in August 1989. Here, below, is a selection of news reports about Levy and the JDO. Click the image to view the entire article. |
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| | | The Village Voice
July, 1979Mordechai Levy and associates attack Fritz Berg, severely kicking and beating him inside St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. Mr. Berg had been involved with the Ridgewood Group, an organization that had filed a complaint and petition with the FCC against NBC's broadcast of the Holocaust miniseries. Levy, 19, is apprehended by authorities and charged with assault. | 
| | | The Spotlight
April, 1981Levy, then with the Jewish Defense League, leads a violent demonstration at the offices of the Institute for Historical Review in Torrance, CA. |
| | | The Spotlight
September, 1981Levy (looking tough with baseball bat) with JDL colleague Irv Rubin and other violence-prone cohorts. |
| | | | | The Spotlight
July 5, 1982A chronicle of Levy's exploits from the late seventies to 1982, at which time he founded the Jewish Defense Organization. He left the JDL because it was "not militant enough." | |
| | | | IHR Newsletter
January 1984Mr. Levy is manhandled out of a courtroom where he put in a special guest appearance to shriek obscenities at several Klansmen. |
| | | The Record -- New Jersey
August 1985Mr. Levy on the bombing of a 61-year old man (suspected by the intrepid Levy to be a war criminal) whose leg was amputated as a result: "The only thing I regret is that instead of losing his legs, he should have lost his life." |
| The New York Daily News
August, 1989A feud between Mr. Levy and his JDL rivals results in Levy's spraying of gunfire from a roof top shortly after noon in Manhattan. Miraculously only one innocent bystander is harmed. Levy is subsequently convicted of "wanton and reckless disregard for human life," and serves four months of a four year sentence. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | Washington Times
April, 1993The Jewish Defense Organization assaults David Willcox, founder of American Friends of Palestine, and four or five other peaceful protesters of the opening of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. |
| | | | Washington Post
April, 1993More on the JDO's vicious assault on Mr. Willcox... "I turned just in time to see this man with this big, heavy pipe slamming it down on my head." |
| | | The Forward
April, 2000JDO leader Mordechai Levy faces sentencing for kicking a 12-year old boy in the testicles. The boy was attending the JDO's summer camp. | | | | | | | | |
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