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Alex Odeh
Alex Odeh (April 4, 1944 – October 11, 1985) was an Arab-American (specifically, Palestinian American) anti-discrimination activist who was killed in a bombing as he opened the door of his office at 1905 East 17th Street, Santa Ana, California. Odeh was west-coast regional director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC).
==Life and murder==
Born into a Palestinian Christian (Latin rite Catholic) family in Jifna, the West Bank, Odeh immigrated to the United States in 1972.〔(ADC Remembers Alex Odeh ), American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee website, October 11, 2005 .〕 He was a lecturer and poet who had published a volume of his poetry, ''Whispers in Exile.''〔
The Boston office of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee suffered a bombing on August 16, 1985, injuring two officers.〔Harvey W. Kushner, (Encyclopedia of Terrorism ), SAGE, 2003, 192-193 ISBN 0-7619-2408-6〕 The Santa Ana bombing came the day after the ending of the Palestine Liberation Front–sponsored Achille Lauro attack in which Jewish American Leon Klinghoffer was killed.〔Michael K. Bohn, ''The Achille Lauro Hijacking: Lessons in the Politics and Prejudice of Terrorism'', Brassey's Inc., 2004, 67, ISBN 1-57488-779-3〕 The night before his death Odeh denied to the media that the PLO was involved in the hijacking and portrayed Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat as being ready to make peace.〔Andrew I. Killgore, (Alex M. Odeh: American Martyr ), Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, November 4, 1985, 16.〕 The day of his murder he had been scheduled to speak at Friday prayer services at a synagogue in Fountain Valley, California.〔(ADC Observes “Alex Odeh Day”: Organization Calls on FBI and State Department to Redouble Effort in Ongoing Investigation of Terrorist Attack ), ADC web site, October 2008.〕
Shortly before his killing, Odeh appeared on the television show ''Nightline''. The program featured a back-and-forth between Odeh and a representative from the Jewish Defense League, a Jewish armed militant organization which has been characterized by the FBI as a terrorist group involved in numerous attacks within the United States.〔Juergensmeyer, Mark. ''Terror in the mind of God''. 2003, page 56〕
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