In response to a question about one of her previous judicial rulings, Biden Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson asserted that the Black Hebrew Israelite group is a cultural and not religious group that is based on veganism and a healthy lifestyle.
In fact, the group is far from being that. The Anti-Defamation League says the Black Hebrew Israelites are of a “fringe religious movement that rejects widely accepted definitions of Judaism and asserts that people of color are the true children of Israel.”
“BHI teachings become explicitly hateful when coupled with racial superiority and accusations against white individuals and specific hatred towards the Jewish community. Extremist Black Hebrew Israelites assert that white people are agents of Satan, Jews are liars and false worshipers of God, and Blacks are racially superior and the only true “chosen people,” the ADL says.
“Judaism is frequently referred to as the “synagogue of Satan.” Stolen identity is a central piece of the ideology and the basis of animosity towards Jews,” it adds.
Black Hebrew Israelites also attacked a Jew-owned grocery story in Jersey City in 2019, with religious animosity being the motive in the shooting which killed two innocent Jews, as well as a non-Jewish store employee.
The Black Hebrew Israelites have a long history of hate and violence. But apparently Kentaji Brown Jackson thinks otherwise.
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The Gemara Klers if androiginis is a min Befnei atzmoh they should of Klered the same thing about shchoirim..
Ignorant affermative action pick shoved down our throats.
The judge wasn’t discussing the group but a court case that revolved around a vegan restaurant that was founded an run by the group. She wasn’t discussing the group and their outrageous offensive beliefs should not enter into a determination in the case that was before the judge. Apparently a member of the group took over the business continuing to use the name of the Restaurant, the original sign and the recipes. The cult sought to prevent him from using the name and the recipes
She not raysist or no nuthin, she joost sayin, ya know! Iss a culcha! Them Black Hebrew Isralaahts.
13 miles from my home these innocent Yidin were cut down in cold blood because they were Yidin by these “culture” members. This apologist is going to sit on the Supreme Court?
She was also soft on Islamic jihadists of Gitmo and on s-x offenders.
IF THIS IS THE BEST BLACK WOMAN THAT BIDEN CAN COME UP WITH AS A CANDIDATE, THIS PROVES THEIR INFERIORITY!
This left wing Lunatic Judge is not playing with a full deck! I don’t care what color she is. An Idiot is an Idiot. Lock her away in a mental institution and throw away the keys.
The video as posted by YWN cuts off Judge Jackson’s testimony just as she apparently stops talking about veganism of the “African Hebrew Israelites” and says the whole community has “other aspects to it ….” I wonder what Judge Jackson thinks those other aspects are. Maybe she thinks the “other aspects” include the aspects that the Anti-Defamation League describes.
It was Jackson’s warm descriptions of the sect that outraged segments of conservative Twitter. Townhall, a far-right website, extracted 21 seconds of her testimony and posted it on Twitter, saying only “Judge Jackson just mentioned the ‘African Hebrew Israelites, calling them ‘a cultural community around healthy living.’”
A number of tweeters immediately seized on the abbreviated Townhall post to suggest that Jackson was soft-pedaling a separate, radical group that has been labeled a hate group by the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center. A member of the offshoot was involved in the deadly 2019 shooting at a kosher supermarket in New Jersey.
Among those amplifying the error, and the criticism, were Ben Domenech, co-founder of The Federalist, a conservative news and opinion site; Greg Price, a conservative political strategist, and Twitchy, a conservative news site. Domenech alone has over 176,000 followers.
The African Hebrew Israelite group in the case Jackson tried has nothing to do with the antisemitic offshoots, although they share roots in a late 19th century movement in which some Blacks embraced Judaism or aspects of it.
The group Jackson referred to maintains communities in three towns in southern Israel, descended from a number of African Americans who arrived in Israel from Chicago, via Liberia, in the late 1960s. In the community’s first years, relations with the Israeli authorities were tense, but the community eventually integrated into the country.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry dedicates a web page to the group, and says, “Today, community spokespersons are effective contributors to the national public relations effort, speaking to audiences on behalf of the State of Israel.”
i suppose the xian nazareth vegan community is also not a religious community, but rather a cultural community.