Overview
- On October 11, 1985, Alex Odeh, a Palestinian‑American regional director of the American‑Arab Anti‑Discrimination Committee, was killed by a tripwire bomb at his Santa Ana office.
- The documentary Who Killed Alex Odeh? opened Friday, October 30, 2026, and revisits decades of evidence using archival records, interviews, and undercover reporting in Israel and the West Bank.
- Filmmakers and journalist David Sheen identify three long‑named suspects from the Jewish Defense League — Robert Manning, Keith Fuchs, and Andy Green (Baruch Ben Yosef) — but the film produces no new prosecutable evidence.
- The film presents allegations, including on‑camera anecdotes from a retired U.S. detective, that Mossad and U.S. officials discouraged fuller pursuit of leads; jurisdictional limits from suspects living in Israel and the West Bank are shown as a practical barrier to U.S. prosecution.
- Odeh’s widow and daughter remain without legal closure, and the film connects the killing to Meir Kahane’s Kahanism to show how hardline ideology from the 1980s can echo in today’s politics and public debate.