Alex Odeh

March 25, 2024  /  Niall Cooper

9.2: ALEX ODEH

Alexander Odeh was a Palestinian Arab displaced by the 1967 Arab-Israel War. He moved to the United States in the 1970s, working as a college lecturer, as well as writing poetry. While engaged in political activism in support of Arab people, both in the Middle East and in the USA, he was killed in a bombing attack in 1985 that was widely attributed to a Jewish American terrorist cell.

The alleged perpetrators subsequently fled to Israel in order to evade murder and terrorism charges. One of the potential killers, Andy Green (who changed his name to Baruch Ben-Yosef), is back in the news in early 2024 as he seems to be a leader of protests by ultra nationalist Jewish people in Israel, which aim to prevent essential aid from reaching the malnourished Palestinian people living in war-torn Gaza.