Jews have long been the useful idiots for black organizations. Starting with funding the creation of the NAACP, Jews have helped blacks. But the article overlooks something actually worse than what is described. Blacks have long been the most antisemitic identifiable group in the US. Pew polls as recently as 2023 showed 44% of black to have antisemitic views. That long predates October 7.
Blacks identify with Palestinian Arabs. Blacks are humiliated by Jewish history, where Jews suffered vastly more, but despite it all, accomplished what blacks could not, in nearly all fields of endeavor.
This is not news. It is merely confirmation of facts that were hidden in the misplaced Jewish tendency to empathize with all suffering -- except their own.
We tried repairing the world for 3000 years. You know the saying, it is insane to do the same thing over and over again and expect a different result.
For decades now, when Jews are violently assaulted in New York City, it's been by blacks. You know, bricks smashed into Jews' faces. Knifings. Subway attacks. Blacks aim for Jews, particularly "identifiable" Orthodox Jews.
Antisemitism on the part of blacks didn't just stop with Jesse Jackson's name-calling, "Hymietown." It was also pogroms in Crown Heights.
Well, that's what comes of marching with Martin Luther King Jr.
Don’t kid yourself—black anti-semitism is nothing new. It’s been going on in the US since the late 60s, at least and is the reason why former Jewish leftists Marty Peretz and David Horowitz changed sides.
My father ran into Stokeley Carmichael in Honolulu airport in the 60s. Stokely called my 6’5”, veteran father a “Jewboy” and threatened to riot in an affluent Jewish suburb in which he thought we lived. (Ours was actually very modest). The black-Jewish alliance that liberal Jews get so misty-eyed over was always a one-way alliance, on behalf on blacks.
The nation of Islam’s proliferation in the Black community opened the door. We and Black people are suffering the consequences of both being weakened by being played against each other. As horrible as it is to say, they have lost me as an ally. I am never going to fight against civil rights. I am too busy fighting against Jew hate, to focus on issues that don’t affect my community. When the cycle of jew hate subsides, I am not going to rejoin their fight. I’m autistic and don’t forgive betrayal.
James Clyburn, dem, House of Representatives, SC, told Jews to Get Over the Holocaust. He was echoing the words coming from The Nation of Islam, going back to the 1960s, “the inexcusable crime was the remembering of the Holocaust, it minimized, suppressed and extinguishes the humiliation of the Blacks.” This, while after the Holocaust about 245,000 Jewish survivors are still living across more than 90 countries.
We still do have many Black friends, and there are many Black Jews But the generational rise of belief in Marxism, Critical theory and Critical Race theory have severely damaged and misdirected the civil rights movement.
The primary historical periods of the transatlantic slave trade span from the 15th century (the 1400s) to the 19th century (the 1800s). Over these 400 years, the dynamics between European traders and African kingdoms evolved from sporadic coastal raiding to highly organized, state-level commercial networks.
Historical data archives like the Slave Voyages Database show how the scale of the trade shifted dramatically across these centuries.
Without the cooperation between African warrior tribes or kingdoms, the transatlantic slave trade could not have succeeded.
Don't forget the historical impact of Islam on the African slave trade.
For decades many black leaders have monopolized the victim label. It became an industry. After October 7th and before, when Jews became the oppressed, blacks had to share that seat at the table and weren’t happy. Their response was to turn against any who would challenge their exclusive narrative.
Antisemitism had been integrated into black activism for decades before oct 7. They didn’t suddenly turn against us. It was just the defining moment when we needed our friends most that we saw the extent. It’s important that how we talk about these issues be accurate- we need to be aware of the failures in our own perceptions about how bad it was earlier, when we might’ve had a chance to address what was going on. Jews have had our heads in the sand for too long, not understanding the nature of the threat
In the past through organizations like ADL and various Federations we preferred to reason together to understand them. I’m done trying to understand Jew Hatred. I refuse to use the term antisemitism.
I agree, I am talking about the need to call out the lies and to push back on the corruption of the narrative in academic studies of the middle east, and to have been vocal about pushing back
None are so blind as those who refuse to see. I remember in 2020 my rabbi leading a contingent of our congregation on a march under the banner of Black Lives Matter. My Rabbi is an ardent Zionist but he is also a liberal. I flat out told him that BLM was a Marxist, Jew hating organization that we had no business supporting. I told him lead a march for justice for Floyd under our own banner if you want but keep away from BLM. He didn't listen. I moved away and he's retired but I am pretty sure he's woken up to some extent.
True. I remember we were told at work we could attend a BLM rally. This was a medical workplace at a children’s hospital. (White coats for Black lives) and bullshit. (I’m a retired pediatrician but was working during that time). I didn’t participate. I knew what BLM was. Many physicians masked and socially distanced held their posters and took a knee for ‘black lives’. The hospital photographer took pictures and these were used for marketing for residents and fellows. A big fucking performance.
BLM was formed in 2014, a branch of the Antisemitic Nation of Islam, home of Farrakhan. BLM supports the Antisemitic BDS, the boycott, divest and sanction of one county only, Israel. BDS leader Omar Barghouti acknowledged that the goal of the BDS is to destroy Israel.
It’s amazingly sad how many people today manage to learn the narratives that make them resentful, racist, or antisemitic, yet have little interest in learning history like the deep friendship between Martin Luther King Jr. and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel.
King and Heschel stood together, marched together, and viewed each other as moral partners in the fight for justice. That history should be taught far more than the division and resentment constantly pushed today.
One of the dumbest things I ever did was interrupt a long vacation and drive 7 hours each way with my wife to march in a George Floyd/BLM protest. I genuinely thought I was standing against all racism. Instead, I later realized I was supporting a movement where too many people openly spread, tolerate or excuse antisemitism against Jews like me.
The irony is hard to miss — marching against ignorance and racism alongside people who carried their own forms of hatred and prejudice. Never again.
No surprise—and it probably wouldn’t have changed anything. When someone is inclined to hate based on race, religion, skin color, sex, or similar, facts rarely matter except when they can be selectively used to reinforce that biased sickness and validate what is ultimately just prejudice.
It didn't change anything because it wasn't challenged from the get-go, at the root of the problem. How do you stop or deal with bullies, you put them in their place instantly.
"Jew Boy with the yarmalke on your head, I wish you waz dead." frm Harlem on my Mind at the Met Museum NYC in the mid sixties. I have never forgotten the dispute over that line in the catalog as worthy of inclusion for portraying the alleged oppression of Black people at the hands of Jews, especially the Jewish slum lords. My black coworker....we were "kids" was reading Julius Nyere for Black African Nationalism. Now we have a new generation of Black Jew hatred centered on "palestine activism." It simmered before...now it's roiling. There are Black people who speak out...not many but they are there. HLGates did a fair enough job with his recent PBS on Jews and Blacks. He didn't really get into today's full scale full blown anti Zionist hate, anti Israel hate and the Jew Hate. We may be happy for the scraps of kindness now being proffered to us from certain parties but full blown Jew Hate is part of the Black community as it long ago embraced Black Nationalism, Islam as authentically African, and Third world solidarity whch very much leaves "white" Israel to twist in the wind. Or fight like hell which it has done since Oct. 7th....with minimal support from USA Jews. I'll see what tomorrow's Yeshiva driven NYC parade has to offer in good spirits. As the racist mayor has made it "abundantly clear" how he feels about Israel.
This article makes an excellent point by relating Jewish success to Jewish behaviors which are shaped by Jewish culture. It's a point that does not receive wide attention yet other groups could learn from it. Instead people want to believe there is a conspiracy afoot.
The "mechanism for Jewish success" is hiding in plain sight. It's called belief in the one true G-d, educating yourself in the Torah, and trying the best that you can to follow it.
"Jews are now perceived not as a vulnerable minority, but as “white,” “privileged,” or “oppressors.” This is nonsense. Jews are not “white” (though some are European or have European ancestry)"
Definition of "White:" of European origin and Christian religeo-cultural heritage.
Definition of "Jewish:" of Levantine origin and Jewish religeo-cultural heritage.
For some reason, historian John Hunwick overlooked the brisk Barbary slave trade conducted by Black Slavers who emptied whole coastal European villages into the cargo holds of their ships.
" 'oppression”'is treated as uniquely 'white' and uniquely European — both labels that many Black people place onto Jews, often inaccurately."
When and where are these labels accurate? Inquiring minds want to know.
"modern coalition politics"
A softened depiction of Intersectionality, a key component of Critical Race Theory.
"Zionism is the belief that Jews, like every other people, have the right to self-determination in their ancestral homeland."
Accurate definition of political Zionism, one of the many manifestations of the phenomenon. It goes back to Psalm 137 composed between 597 and 538 BCE.
"Groups like Hamas and Hezbollah are not civil rights organizations; they are Islamist movements rooted in extremist ideologies."
And here is the fundamental Western error of ethnocentrism. Islamist movements are rooted in Islam and Islam is based on the Qu'ran and Hadiths. Those following the instructions of their sacred texts are not extremists. They are zealots, devotees, purists, pietists doing what their religion demands of them if they are to be True Believers.
"That narrative destroys agency. "
Might a more forthright description be that it denies free will.
"Historically, successful minority groups almost always develop strong internal cultures"
Jewish assimilation is destroying that internal culture, and we are witnessing the tragic consequences of it today as intermarriage bleeds Jewish identity into the dominant culture and increasing numbers of Jewish youth find cannot identify with Israel, thus rejecting a crucial element of Jewish meaningfulness that united us together down through the ages and ensured our survival and continuity.
Sadly, what MLK preached was NEVER espoused by most Blacks who were encouraged by their Democrat party to feel "oppressed" --and ultimately they feel (with of course there are exceptions like Thomas Sowell) to feel ONLY their OWN "pain". If you happen to be Black--but ALSO Gay or Trans--then a Black extends that sympathy to another minority group. "Double indemnity".
My widowed mother immigrated to the USA with me from Israel after my dad was killed by the Arabs. She remarried in America--another immigrant-- but a man who was already an American citizen. My mom then had two more children. She was appalled by her American born Jewish daughter who ONLY gave to Black charities and eventually worked in a dangerous neighborhood as a mid-wife/nurse for Black women. Her car was constantly vandalized-- she eventually quit.
My sister insisted her kids give 10% of their allowance to charities she espoused. Blacks, Planned Parenthood--and dogs. Today, her daughter is a Far Left activist. Her son a devoted "liberal". The "road to hell is paved by good intentions" OR the delusion that you are doing "good" or Tikkun Olam.
"They" (my sister, husband, their daughter) voted for Mamdani.
Dem Jews in particular were avid to promote BLM. But they were part of a larger "White" group that suffer from a tendency toward "guilt" that is purely an emotional response --and BTW why Europe has become Islamized. Douglas Murray describes it so well in "War on the West".
Minorities fail to see how they are being used politically by the Dem Party. It causes inexcusable division via Identiy.
Jews have long been the useful idiots for black organizations. Starting with funding the creation of the NAACP, Jews have helped blacks. But the article overlooks something actually worse than what is described. Blacks have long been the most antisemitic identifiable group in the US. Pew polls as recently as 2023 showed 44% of black to have antisemitic views. That long predates October 7.
Blacks identify with Palestinian Arabs. Blacks are humiliated by Jewish history, where Jews suffered vastly more, but despite it all, accomplished what blacks could not, in nearly all fields of endeavor.
This is not news. It is merely confirmation of facts that were hidden in the misplaced Jewish tendency to empathize with all suffering -- except their own.
We tried repairing the world for 3000 years. You know the saying, it is insane to do the same thing over and over again and expect a different result.
—Jews suffered vastly more, but despite it all, accomplished what blacks could not, in nearly all fields of endeavor.
This is the root of the hatred: envy and resentment.
That’s the root of Arab hate of Israel also.
no doubt
For decades now, when Jews are violently assaulted in New York City, it's been by blacks. You know, bricks smashed into Jews' faces. Knifings. Subway attacks. Blacks aim for Jews, particularly "identifiable" Orthodox Jews.
Antisemitism on the part of blacks didn't just stop with Jesse Jackson's name-calling, "Hymietown." It was also pogroms in Crown Heights.
Well, that's what comes of marching with Martin Luther King Jr.
Let no good deed go unpunished.
People forget.
That's all true. And Jackson was a bad guy to the end. It's as if Theodore Herzl had hated blacks.
Don’t kid yourself—black anti-semitism is nothing new. It’s been going on in the US since the late 60s, at least and is the reason why former Jewish leftists Marty Peretz and David Horowitz changed sides.
My father ran into Stokeley Carmichael in Honolulu airport in the 60s. Stokely called my 6’5”, veteran father a “Jewboy” and threatened to riot in an affluent Jewish suburb in which he thought we lived. (Ours was actually very modest). The black-Jewish alliance that liberal Jews get so misty-eyed over was always a one-way alliance, on behalf on blacks.
The dirty little secret is that a huge amount of anti-semitic incidents in NYC and likely other cities is well are conducted by blacks.
No secret. Not even to this non-Jew. You have to try hard not to notice who's been attacking New York City Jews all these years.
More like the truth that dare not be spoken.
The nation of Islam’s proliferation in the Black community opened the door. We and Black people are suffering the consequences of both being weakened by being played against each other. As horrible as it is to say, they have lost me as an ally. I am never going to fight against civil rights. I am too busy fighting against Jew hate, to focus on issues that don’t affect my community. When the cycle of jew hate subsides, I am not going to rejoin their fight. I’m autistic and don’t forgive betrayal.
James Clyburn, dem, House of Representatives, SC, told Jews to Get Over the Holocaust. He was echoing the words coming from The Nation of Islam, going back to the 1960s, “the inexcusable crime was the remembering of the Holocaust, it minimized, suppressed and extinguishes the humiliation of the Blacks.” This, while after the Holocaust about 245,000 Jewish survivors are still living across more than 90 countries.
We still do have many Black friends, and there are many Black Jews But the generational rise of belief in Marxism, Critical theory and Critical Race theory have severely damaged and misdirected the civil rights movement.
The primary historical periods of the transatlantic slave trade span from the 15th century (the 1400s) to the 19th century (the 1800s). Over these 400 years, the dynamics between European traders and African kingdoms evolved from sporadic coastal raiding to highly organized, state-level commercial networks.
Historical data archives like the Slave Voyages Database show how the scale of the trade shifted dramatically across these centuries.
Without the cooperation between African warrior tribes or kingdoms, the transatlantic slave trade could not have succeeded.
Don't forget the historical impact of Islam on the African slave trade.
For decades many black leaders have monopolized the victim label. It became an industry. After October 7th and before, when Jews became the oppressed, blacks had to share that seat at the table and weren’t happy. Their response was to turn against any who would challenge their exclusive narrative.
Antisemitism had been integrated into black activism for decades before oct 7. They didn’t suddenly turn against us. It was just the defining moment when we needed our friends most that we saw the extent. It’s important that how we talk about these issues be accurate- we need to be aware of the failures in our own perceptions about how bad it was earlier, when we might’ve had a chance to address what was going on. Jews have had our heads in the sand for too long, not understanding the nature of the threat
In the past through organizations like ADL and various Federations we preferred to reason together to understand them. I’m done trying to understand Jew Hatred. I refuse to use the term antisemitism.
I agree, I am talking about the need to call out the lies and to push back on the corruption of the narrative in academic studies of the middle east, and to have been vocal about pushing back
Blacks turned on Jews in 1968.
None are so blind as those who refuse to see. I remember in 2020 my rabbi leading a contingent of our congregation on a march under the banner of Black Lives Matter. My Rabbi is an ardent Zionist but he is also a liberal. I flat out told him that BLM was a Marxist, Jew hating organization that we had no business supporting. I told him lead a march for justice for Floyd under our own banner if you want but keep away from BLM. He didn't listen. I moved away and he's retired but I am pretty sure he's woken up to some extent.
I too always knew that BLM would never stand up for Jews. I don’t get why people are surprised.
More than not stand up for Jews. Was deeply anti-semitic from the getgo.
True. I remember we were told at work we could attend a BLM rally. This was a medical workplace at a children’s hospital. (White coats for Black lives) and bullshit. (I’m a retired pediatrician but was working during that time). I didn’t participate. I knew what BLM was. Many physicians masked and socially distanced held their posters and took a knee for ‘black lives’. The hospital photographer took pictures and these were used for marketing for residents and fellows. A big fucking performance.
BLM was formed in 2014, a branch of the Antisemitic Nation of Islam, home of Farrakhan. BLM supports the Antisemitic BDS, the boycott, divest and sanction of one county only, Israel. BDS leader Omar Barghouti acknowledged that the goal of the BDS is to destroy Israel.
https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/mlk-and-heschel-deep-interfaith-friendship?utm_source=chatgpt.com
It’s amazingly sad how many people today manage to learn the narratives that make them resentful, racist, or antisemitic, yet have little interest in learning history like the deep friendship between Martin Luther King Jr. and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel.
King and Heschel stood together, marched together, and viewed each other as moral partners in the fight for justice. That history should be taught far more than the division and resentment constantly pushed today.
One of the dumbest things I ever did was interrupt a long vacation and drive 7 hours each way with my wife to march in a George Floyd/BLM protest. I genuinely thought I was standing against all racism. Instead, I later realized I was supporting a movement where too many people openly spread, tolerate or excuse antisemitism against Jews like me.
The irony is hard to miss — marching against ignorance and racism alongside people who carried their own forms of hatred and prejudice. Never again.
Selma the 2014 remake directed by Ava DuVernay completely erased any Jewish connection to this period in history.
No surprise—and it probably wouldn’t have changed anything. When someone is inclined to hate based on race, religion, skin color, sex, or similar, facts rarely matter except when they can be selectively used to reinforce that biased sickness and validate what is ultimately just prejudice.
It didn't change anything because it wasn't challenged from the get-go, at the root of the problem. How do you stop or deal with bullies, you put them in their place instantly.
Excellent article. Also— there is such a thing as black supremacy and Islamic supremacy.
"Jew Boy with the yarmalke on your head, I wish you waz dead." frm Harlem on my Mind at the Met Museum NYC in the mid sixties. I have never forgotten the dispute over that line in the catalog as worthy of inclusion for portraying the alleged oppression of Black people at the hands of Jews, especially the Jewish slum lords. My black coworker....we were "kids" was reading Julius Nyere for Black African Nationalism. Now we have a new generation of Black Jew hatred centered on "palestine activism." It simmered before...now it's roiling. There are Black people who speak out...not many but they are there. HLGates did a fair enough job with his recent PBS on Jews and Blacks. He didn't really get into today's full scale full blown anti Zionist hate, anti Israel hate and the Jew Hate. We may be happy for the scraps of kindness now being proffered to us from certain parties but full blown Jew Hate is part of the Black community as it long ago embraced Black Nationalism, Islam as authentically African, and Third world solidarity whch very much leaves "white" Israel to twist in the wind. Or fight like hell which it has done since Oct. 7th....with minimal support from USA Jews. I'll see what tomorrow's Yeshiva driven NYC parade has to offer in good spirits. As the racist mayor has made it "abundantly clear" how he feels about Israel.
This article makes an excellent point by relating Jewish success to Jewish behaviors which are shaped by Jewish culture. It's a point that does not receive wide attention yet other groups could learn from it. Instead people want to believe there is a conspiracy afoot.
The "mechanism for Jewish success" is hiding in plain sight. It's called belief in the one true G-d, educating yourself in the Torah, and trying the best that you can to follow it.
"Jews are now perceived not as a vulnerable minority, but as “white,” “privileged,” or “oppressors.” This is nonsense. Jews are not “white” (though some are European or have European ancestry)"
Definition of "White:" of European origin and Christian religeo-cultural heritage.
Definition of "Jewish:" of Levantine origin and Jewish religeo-cultural heritage.
For some reason, historian John Hunwick overlooked the brisk Barbary slave trade conducted by Black Slavers who emptied whole coastal European villages into the cargo holds of their ships.
" 'oppression”'is treated as uniquely 'white' and uniquely European — both labels that many Black people place onto Jews, often inaccurately."
When and where are these labels accurate? Inquiring minds want to know.
"modern coalition politics"
A softened depiction of Intersectionality, a key component of Critical Race Theory.
"Zionism is the belief that Jews, like every other people, have the right to self-determination in their ancestral homeland."
Accurate definition of political Zionism, one of the many manifestations of the phenomenon. It goes back to Psalm 137 composed between 597 and 538 BCE.
"Groups like Hamas and Hezbollah are not civil rights organizations; they are Islamist movements rooted in extremist ideologies."
And here is the fundamental Western error of ethnocentrism. Islamist movements are rooted in Islam and Islam is based on the Qu'ran and Hadiths. Those following the instructions of their sacred texts are not extremists. They are zealots, devotees, purists, pietists doing what their religion demands of them if they are to be True Believers.
"That narrative destroys agency. "
Might a more forthright description be that it denies free will.
"Historically, successful minority groups almost always develop strong internal cultures"
Jewish assimilation is destroying that internal culture, and we are witnessing the tragic consequences of it today as intermarriage bleeds Jewish identity into the dominant culture and increasing numbers of Jewish youth find cannot identify with Israel, thus rejecting a crucial element of Jewish meaningfulness that united us together down through the ages and ensured our survival and continuity.
Sadly, what MLK preached was NEVER espoused by most Blacks who were encouraged by their Democrat party to feel "oppressed" --and ultimately they feel (with of course there are exceptions like Thomas Sowell) to feel ONLY their OWN "pain". If you happen to be Black--but ALSO Gay or Trans--then a Black extends that sympathy to another minority group. "Double indemnity".
My widowed mother immigrated to the USA with me from Israel after my dad was killed by the Arabs. She remarried in America--another immigrant-- but a man who was already an American citizen. My mom then had two more children. She was appalled by her American born Jewish daughter who ONLY gave to Black charities and eventually worked in a dangerous neighborhood as a mid-wife/nurse for Black women. Her car was constantly vandalized-- she eventually quit.
My sister insisted her kids give 10% of their allowance to charities she espoused. Blacks, Planned Parenthood--and dogs. Today, her daughter is a Far Left activist. Her son a devoted "liberal". The "road to hell is paved by good intentions" OR the delusion that you are doing "good" or Tikkun Olam.
"They" (my sister, husband, their daughter) voted for Mamdani.
Dem Jews in particular were avid to promote BLM. But they were part of a larger "White" group that suffer from a tendency toward "guilt" that is purely an emotional response --and BTW why Europe has become Islamized. Douglas Murray describes it so well in "War on the West".
Minorities fail to see how they are being used politically by the Dem Party. It causes inexcusable division via Identiy.