This was clearly staged as are almost all "confrontations" on the Jerry Springer show. The Jerry Springer "confrontations" are as authentic as professional wrestling.
Irv Rubin was not part of the JDL, just as his evil wife Shelly does not represent JDL.
Unless you think that cursing Jonathan Pollard and calling for his murder in front of 30 million Americans on the Merv Griffin Show represents JDL.
Or that endorsing Arik Sharon's expulsion of 10,000 Jews from Gush Katif represents JDL.
Or that telling the Village Voice that you "would not sit shiva if Meir Kahane dropped dead" represents JDL.
Or that condemning as "terrorism" all of the bombings and teargassing incidents that led to the liberation of over 1 million Soviet Jews represents JDL.
Or that condemning "Jews Against (Jesse) Jackson" as "racist" represents JDL.
The list of the Rubins' unforgivable crimes against the Jewish people is endless.
After Irv Rubin cursed Pollard and called for the death of Pollard on national television, and after Rubin cursed Rabbi Kahane and said that he would be happy if Rabbi Kahane dropped dead, I said on my radio program in the 1980s: "May Hashem (G-d) do to Irv Rubin and his evil supporters all of the terrible things that the Rubinites have said should happen to good Jews."
Hashem in His infinite wisdom and mercy has started this process:
Rubin said that Pollard should get the death penalty. Instead Hashem gave Rubin the death penalty. And Hashem also gave the death penalty to Rubin's evil codefendant and right hand man Earl Krugel, who became an informer when he and Rubin were arrested for a stupid offense.