David Sheen

David Sheen is a freelance investigative journalist reporting from Israel*Palestine for over a decade for dozens of local, regional and international journals, earning the support of journalist unions and human rights groups at home and abroad, amongst them the Rory Peck Trust and the Front Line Defenders.

As US Refuses to Act, Suspected Alex Odeh Assassins Enjoy Influential Role in Israeli Politics

Palestinian-American activist Alex Odeh was murdered outside his California office in October 1985. For decades, law enforcement officials have openly speculated that the perpetrators were members of the Jewish Defense League (JDL) – a terrorist group led at the time by the notorious militant Irv Rubin. It is widely alleged that three individuals – Robert […]

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JDF Alex Odeh Feature photo

Palestinian-American activist Alex Odeh was murdered outside his California office in October 1985. For decades, law enforcement officials have openly speculated that the perpetrators were members of the Jewish Defense League (JDL) – a terrorist group led at the time by the notorious militant Irv Rubin. It is widely alleged that three individuals –

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Alex Odeh Assassination: New Testimony Could Finally Bring Jewish Defense League to Justice

According to active agents still assigned to the case, pressing charges against Odeh’s killers 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.

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Alex Odeh JDL Feature photo

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

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