Meir Kahane speaking at UCLA 12/3/1970

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my name is bob elias and as chairman of the associate as chairman of the associated student speakers program i'd like to welcome you to our condom 22nd lecture of the fall quarter our speaker today rabbi mayor kohani was born in brooklyn new york in 1932. his education includes ordination as rabbi at the mirror yeshiva in brooklyn a ba from brooklyn college an llb from new york new york law school and an m.a in international law from new york university a few years ago rabbi kahane founded the jewish defense league in new york to provide auxiliary police protection in jewish neighborhoods recently the jewish defense league has expanded its activities to other parts of the united states and to other areas of endeavor critics say the jewish defense league is a bunch of goons and vigilantes they they've also been called a lot of other names other names that aren't unprintable rabbi kahane says the group is only fighting anti-semitism and trying to destroy the image of jews as patsy's his lecture today is entitled the crisis for american jury and the question answer period will follow immediately it is now my pleasure to introduce the rabbi panther rabbi amir khan one of the great problems about coming here as just about any other campus is that everybody knows about jdl they think and therefore it's quite an important thing for us to first find out what we are not and afterwards to find out what we are why jdl in a country with so many jewish in a country with so many jewish organizations why one more jewish organization i think to understand why jdl it's imperative to go back some 25 26 28 years ago to the years 1942 and 1943 when the jews of this country first learned about auschwitz i think it's difficult for anybody who

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