Reply To: Black Anti-Semitism in the 1980s

Former NFL star running back Larry Johnson has posted a series of anti-Semitic tweets, one of which blamed “the Jewish cabal” for human trafficking, sex trafficking, pedophilia, ritualistic child torture, perversion [and] human sacrifice/murder.”

NOTE: Larry Johnson is [or was] African American.

SOURCE: article titled: “Former NFL Running Back
Blames ‘Jewish Cabal’ for Abuses in World”
2020 August 4 www (dot) JNS (dot) org

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Hannah E. Meyers said:

A few weeks ago, Brooklyn Nets point guard Kyrie Irving returned to the basketball court after his eight-game suspension for promoting the anti-Semitic film Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America — and initially refusing to denounce anti-Semitism.

Before his NBA reinstatement, Irving gave a 21-minute interview in which he spoke about how the controversy affected him: the discomfort he and his family have felt, how he loves all people, and finally, how he didn’t realize that it wasn’t safe to criticize certain groups.

The “deep apologies” that he did offer focused on how thoroughly he was misunderstood, saying that he didn’t “stand for anything close to hate speech or anti-Semitism or anything that is ‘anti,’ going against the human race.”

But Irving’s trespass did not consist in accidentally comporting himself like an anti-Semite. It involved tacitly promoting ideologies that call for violence and harassment specifically against Jews — such as have already been gaining in the U.S.

Over the past few years, attacks on American Jews have risen by almost a third.

Thirty-two percent of Jewish college students report having personally experienced anti-Semitism. As seen recently in Manhattan’s Central Park and Penn Station, credible threats on Jewish lives are multiplying.

In fact, Irving has neither apologized for any unintended incitement nor even acknowledged the phenomenon of growing animosity and violence toward Jews—especially among American blacks.

SOURCE: article titled: The Need to Curb Black Anti-Semitism
by Hannah E. Meyers 2023 January 5 www (dot) City-Journal (dot) org

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Charles Fain Lehman said:

“Black anti-Semitism is nothing new.

It has appeared in the works of black intellectuals since at least the early-20th-century black nationalist Marcus Garvey, as Elliot Kaufman observed in Commentary, and defined politics in New York City — the American metropolis where blacks and Jews most often rub shoulders — for generations.”

SOURCE: article titled: Black America’s Anti-Semitism Problem
by Charles Fain Lehman 2022 December 21 FreeBeacon (dot) com