FBI files on the Tupac Shakur murder show that he received death threats from a Jewish gang

Files released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur state that the star had received death threats from the Jewish Defense League (JDL), an organization that has been characterized as a terrorist group. Shakur was shot dead in Las Vegas in September 1996, in a murder case which remains unsolved. The report then goes on to describe how the Jewish group would make the death threats, and then call the rap star and offer protection for a fee. According to the documents, Shakur was a victim of this scheme, as was another late rapper, Eazy-E. The JDL was founded by Rabbi Meir Kahane, who once served in the Knesset, but whose party was later banned for its extreme right-wing beliefs, which included transferring Arabs out of Israel.