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Sunday, November 30, 2014

BLACK AMERICAN ANTI-SEMITISM, INGRATITUDE AND BETRAYAL - Writer who fought along with many other Jews for Afro-American civil rights looks back feeling betrayed - Although quick to denounce "racism", blacks have a long history of anti-Semitism in America.

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Black American racism, ingratitude and betrayal
 
By Jack Engelhard 
No gratitude was expected -- but neither was scorn, contempt, derision and backstabbing.
 
Bigotry has no bounds. We hear that rioters in Ferguson, USA have found the enemy and it is…the Jews!  Yes the Jews. 
 
Protesters have been marching with signs equating the “suffering” of blacks with the “suffering” of “Palestinians.”

How Israel got into the picture, six thousand miles away, nobody knows. Reggie Bush ought to know. The football star was up there with the rest of them denouncing the police and while he was at it, denouncing Israel. Maybe someone ought to inform this millionaire athlete that, going back to the 1960s, Jews were front and center for the Civil Rights movement.

They marched with Martin Luther King Jr. The first name (among many) that comes to mind is Rabbi Abraham Heschel.

Many risked their lives and some even lost their lives for the sake of equality. Two (among many) come to mind. Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner.

These Jewish Civil Rights activists were murdered by the KKK near Philadelphia, Mississippi for their participation in the Freedom Summer of 1964.


This is the thanks for all that sacrifice-- and please, Reggie, name your “Palestinians” who risked their lives for Civil Rights.

Likewise, I also marched so that Blacks can share with Whites equality and harmony. I expected no gratitude. I did it in the name of justice. I would do it again. 
 
But right now I feel like a sucker, hoodwinked, sucker-punched and duped.

I just said, no gratitude expected -- but scorn, contempt, derision and backstabbing, this I did not expect.

Fortunately we can count on the silent majority of African Americans who know that we are brothers. They have no time for prejudice.

So I know that I was part of an idealistic generation that believed “we shall overcome” – and we did. To a large extent we did overcome. We succeeded. But only to find one set of prejudices shifted and parlayed onto another set of prejudices, the onus placed squarely and with a vengeance upon the usual suspects.
 
(The 1960s recaptured here.)

I cannot help but find myself depressed and disillusioned. Apparently people will always need someone else to accuse, however false or baseless the accusation.
 
Attacks against Israel on charges of racism, from the likes of Reggie Bush, Alice Walker et al, are particularly obnoxious considering the risky airlift named Operation Moses, which rescued some 8,000 Ethiopian Jews from Sudan. They were brought to Israel in 1984 to join a small Family that is big enough for everybody.

Israel is by far the most inclusive society in the entire region.

But the facts, the truth will never stop the hucksters and the multitudes that heed them. False prophets are playing with our world.

Into the teeth of all that promise of the 1960s, in some ways we are worse off than ever before. My generation’s Martin Luther King is this generation’s Al Sharpton. The world’s biggest liar, a punk named Mahmoud Abbas, is greeted around the world as if he were Winston Churchill. Shakedown artists seem to have the final word.

Banners demanding Boycott have replaced yesteryear’s banners entreating Love.

The music never died, but so many high hopes have been dashed and somewhere Martin Luther King’s Dream remains a pipe dream.
 
Source
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/16071#.VHtGNZstCM8
 
More columns by Jack Engelhard
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Author.aspx/18



Jack Engelhard writes a regular column for Arutz Sheva.
New from the novelist, the acclaimed anti-BDS thriller Compulsive.
Engelhard wrote the int’l bestseller Indecent Proposal that was translated into more than 22 languages and turned into a Paramount motion picture starring  Robert Redford and Demi Moore.
On the right see picture of his novel The Days of the Bitter End based on the Sixties.
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Website: www.jackengelhard.com


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How anti-Semitism found a receptive audience among Afro-Americans. 
The long history of black anti-Semitism in the USA.


A much heavier and bearded Sharpton (in blue) instigating a pogrom against Jews in Crown Heights back in 1991.

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and what they have in common is hatred for America
 and hatred for Israel and the Jews.

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ANTI-SEMITIC POGROM IN NEW YORK
led by Reverend Al Sharpton
 
 
The History of Black Anti-Semitism in America
 
Anti-Semitism has had a long history among African Americans. In the 1920s, for instance, the “buy-black” campaign of the black-nationalist leader Marcus Garvey was explicitly targeted against Jews, and Garvey later spoke admiringly of Adolf Hitler.

In February 1948 the black writer James Baldwin acknowledged how widespread anti-Semitism was in his community, writing: “Georgia has the Negro and Harlem has the Jew.”
 
 
 
Gratitude?

Fifty years ago two Jewish young men were murdered by the KKK while campaigning for black civil rights in the South. 
In spite of historic Jewish pro-black activism, blacks have turned viciously against Jews.
Even the NAACP has erased the name of its Jewish founder .
The 1991 black pogrom against Jews in Crown Heights NY
Read more
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/06/fifty-years-ago-two-jewish-young-men.html
 
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