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    Ex-Jewish Defense League bomber's parole a 'gut punch' for Palestinian Americans

    by Gabriel San Román, Los Angeles Times Oct 30, 2023 4 minutes
    A statue dedicated to Alex Odeh, a Palestinian American activist killed in a 1985 bombing, stands outside Santa Ana, California's main library.

    Nearly 40 years ago, long before the latest conflagration between Israel and Hamas militants, a bomb ripped through the Santa Ana office of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, taking the life of the group's regional director, Palestinian American activist Alex Odeh.

    The FBI labeled the bombing a terrorist attack and early on identified the Jewish Defense League as "the possible responsible group." At the time, the JDL was the focus of numerous state and federal investigations and had gained notoriety as an underground network of radical militants, espousing a violent form of Jewish nationalism that mainstream Jewish leaders rejected.

    The FBI never formally charged anyone in Odeh's death, but for years the agency's investigation focused on , a burly

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