David Sheen
July 11th, 2022
In an incident that shocked a state and still reverberates decades later, Palestinian-American activist Alex Odeh was brutally murdered in public. Odeh, the regional director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), was killed when a bomb exploded as he entered the ADC’s Santa Ana, California offices on October 11, 1985.
It is widely believed that the culprits were Robert Manning, Keith Israel Fuchs, and Baruch Ben Yosef (also known as Andy Green). The trio were members of the Jewish Defense League (JDL), a Jewish supremacist domestic terrorist group that had repeatedly harassed and threatened Odeh. From 1984 until his death in 2002, the group was led by the notorious militant Irv Rubin. Manning is currently serving life in prison for the murder of another individual. Fuchs and Ben Yosef, however, fled to Israel and live there freely to this day.
Law enforcement officials told me that the FBI has always considered the three men its top suspects. But despite significant evidence of the trio’s guilt, the bureau has never pressed for charges. Many have alleged high government interference. According to active agents still assigned to the case, pressing charges against Manning, Fuchs, and Ben Yosef would require testimony from a witness who heard at least one of those very men discussing their own involvement in Alex Odeh’s murder.
We now have it.
That witness is “Moshe V”. Moshe V (not his real name) is an inmate at a California penitentiary and a former longtime associate of Rubin and the JDL. V is Jewish and is currently jailed for serious crimes unrelated to either Rubin or his organization. In a series of interviews with me, he revealed that Rubin admitted to ordering the Odeh killing and credited the murder to the same three American-Israeli JDL members the FBI has long suspected. He also disclosed that Rubin presided over a portfolio of illegal activities, ranging from a profitable bordello nestled into a bourgeois San Diego suburb to a cross-country car-theft-and-resale scam.
Moshe V is willing to testify to authorities in order to finally crack the case that has hung over the Palestinian American community for over 36 years. Some details about V and his criminal record have been redacted in order to protect his identity.
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