Christian Defense League

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The Christian Defense League was founded as a white supremacist activist organization in California, and it later moved to Louisiana. According to the Anti-Defamation League, it also had a paramilitary function.^[1][2]

The initial history of the organization is unclear due to contradictory accounts. According to

The NAACP represents the negro, the ADL represents the Jews; who represents you--the white Christian? ^{[5]: 66 [6]: 6}

Following the death of

The CDL briefly received national attention in 1978 when it demanded NBC cancel the miniseries Holocaust. Warner threatened picketing and litigation and called the series "Zionist propoganda", claiming that NBC was run by "Zionist Jews".[8] This demand was ignored and the group then demanded "equal time" in the form of 3 hours of prime-time views to present their revisionist history of WWII, which NBC also ignored.^{[citation needed]}

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