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A Jewish group calling itself the American
Anti-Slavery Group has focussed its attention on an alleged
trade in Black slaves in Africa. Better late than never, even
if they are tardy by a century-and-a-half. This Massachusetts-based
"organization," consisting of one Charles Jacobs,
a stack of stationery, a fax machine, and the combined power of
the Jewish press, call themselves "new abolitionists."
While their efforts have freed not a single "slave,"
they still have time to perform their true function which is to
attack The Hon. Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. [the real story in Sudan]
Arab slave trade has Jewish roots
The origin of the extensive slave trade in Black flesh, conducted
by Arabs at roughly the same time as the trans-Atlantic trade,
is worth examination. The predominant icons of Jewish philosophy,
Judah Halevi and Moses
Maimonides, both harbored the most vile anti-Black beliefs
and encouraged among the Jews the Curse of Ham myth which asserts
that the African is black-skinned and subhuman as a result of
a divine curse, appropriate only for service to White people.
The coveted Maimonides Award is given annually by the Anti-Defamation
League.
According to Dr.
Harold Brackman, the esteemed historian of the Simon Wiesenthal
Center, the Arab Muslims used the Jewish developed myth to justify
their own racist pursuit of African slaves and fully adopted this
pernicious myth which soon became custom. Winthrop Jordan concurs
in his seminal work, White Over Black. This Negrophobic
canon of Black inferiority, Brackman maintains, might have been
the only point on which the scholars of Judaism and Islam could
agree. An open and public repudiation by Jewish and Muslim clerics
of this wicked teaching upon which racism is based might help
rid all communities of racist exploitation.
But the real reason Mr. Jacobs is attacking the Nation of Islam
has nothing to do with saving shvartses (niggers) and everything
to do with the long-overdue correction of Black/Jewish history
in The
Secret Relationship. Lee M. Friedman, past president of the American
Jewish Historical Society, wrote that in Brazil, where most captive
Africans went, "the bulk of the slave trade was in the hands
of Jewish settlers." Marcus Arkin wrote that the Jews of
Surinam used "many thousands" of Black slaves. Herbert
I. Bloom wrote that "the slave trade was one of the most
important Jewish activities here (in Surinam) as elsewhere in
the colonies." Cecil Roth, writer of 30 books and hundreds
of articles on Jewish history, wrote that the slave revolts in
that region "were largely directed against [Jews] as being
the greatest slave-holders of the region."
But this is all a lie, say some Jews, even though it all flows
from the pens of their own scholars. In a clumsy attempt to obfuscate
the historical reality [that Jews were heavily involved in the
Atlantic slave trade] they simply call the descendants of slaves
in America, "slave traders." Though it is beyond the
outer bounds of all that is stupid and irrational, they will simply
marshal their media moguls to flood the world with this idiotic
claim. Abolition by press release has never freed a single human
being.
In 1989 the Los Angeles Times featured an expose on the questionable personal and business relationship between Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley and his "friend" Abraham Spiegel. A federal grant jury was in fact beginning a criminal investigation, also subpoenaing Bradley's campaign fund-raiser (also Jewish), Ira Distenfield. (For his part, Distenfield, a Republican, yet the largest personal campaign contributor to Democrat Bradley in 1985, was eventually "sued by five current and former city commissioners for allegedly misappropriating their investments in a limited partnership that included several other political insiders.") [CLIFFORD, F., 3-27-85, p. B1; KRIKORIAN, G., 9-3-90, p .B1] "The City Attorney," noted the Times, "found no illegality in ... the way a top mayoral aide cut through city red tape for three Spiegel [real estate] developments ... Nonetheless ... the relationship raises questions about the degree of access to the mayor enjoyed by political contributors and supporters who have dealings with the city ... The sheer number and personal nature of Spiegel favors for the mayor ensures that he shares an intimacy with Bradley that few others enjoy." [PASTERNAK/BUNTING, p. 1]
Spiegel even drew the African-American mayor of Los Angeles into the web of international activism for Israel. "Bradley," noted the Times, "has traveled twice to Israel to participate in ground-breaking, and dedication of museum and university buildings donated by Spiegel. And Spiegel in turn raised funds at a Los Angeles dinner to establish a Tom Bradley Chair in Social Integration at a college near Tel Aviv ... Spiegel has often invited local officials to galas for visiting Israeli dignitaries." The Times noted one especially disturbing meeting Bradley had with Spielberg; the other two guests were former Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban and Israel's Los Angeles consul general. "The discussion at their table," said the Times, "centered on two topics -- Bradley's friendship for Israel and Spiegel's construction projects in Los Angeles ... Spiegel became Bradley's 'point man' in Los Angeles' Jewish community, raising the mayor's profile among Israeli officials and thus among affluent local supporters of Israel." [PASTERNAK, J.; BUNTING, Glenn, F.; p. 1]
In Fall 1999, a Jewish Republican, Sam Katz, ran against an African-American, Democrat John Street, (who beat a Jewish opponent, Marty Weinberg, in the primary) to replace Ed Rendell as the (Jewish) mayor of Philadelphia. (Katz's dog, noted a Jewish journal, is even named Jabo, in honor of the famous right-wing fascist/Zionist Ze'ev Jabotinsky). 87% of the Jews of Philadelphia -- despite high nationwide Jewish proclivities to liberalism and the Democratic Party -- voted for Republican Katz. [FELDMAN, S., 3-2-2000, p. 1] Katz lost the mayoral contest, however, to the African-American by a narrow margin. A victory against Jewish political dominance? Hardly. Jews, after all, are central to the Democratic Party machine.
"From mayor Ed Rendell to District Attorney Lynne Abraham to City Controller Jonathan Saidel to primary opponent Marty Weinberg to campaign co-finance chairman Robert Feldman to State Senator Allyson Schwartz -- it appeared clear that Street could not have gained his slim victory over Republican Sam Katz Tuesday without key Jewish supporters. Need more proof? Also on stage in the [victory] ballroom at the Warwick Hotel were campaign insiders Leonard Ross, Leonard Klehr and Mark Alderman; Rabbi Solomon Isaacson, who helped get the votes out in the far Northeast, and Philadelphia Federation of Teachers president Ted Kirsch, who prominently endorsed Street in September. In the back of the room, chief campaign spokesman Ken Snyder was busy fielding last-minute questions from reporters, and looking on was campaign media consultant David Axelrod." [FELDMAN, S., 11-4-99, p. 1] In a follow-up article, the Jewish Exponent noted that "As was the case during Street's campaign, Jews are playing prominent roles in the transition phase [to the new mayor]." Two co-chairs of the transition committee were Jewish: Leonard Klehr and Judith Rodin (the president of the University of Pennsylvania). Education Committee chiefs included Lee Annenberg, David Cohen, and Ralph Roberts; working under them were Lois Yampolsky and Deborah Kahn, who was later named to be Philadelphia's Secretary of Education. [FELDMAN, S., 3-9-2000, p. 15] The Government Organization Committee included Leonard Ross, Mark Adelman, and Alan Kessler. Marty Weinberg was in Policy and Programs. Jewish Task Force transition leaders also included Ed Schwartz, Emmanuel Freeman, Ira Lubert, Moshe Porat, Marciarose Shestack, David Marshall (Campaign Chairman for the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia), Harold Goldman (president of Jewish Family and Children's Services), Michael Blum, Harriet Dichter, Ken Jarin, Robert Feldman, John Binswanger, Steven Cozen and Rabbi William Kuhn. [FELDMAN, S., 12-2-99, p. 10] Two weeks later the Jewish Exponent featured another article about the many Jews in mayor Street's entourage, joking to its Jewish audience that "the Jewish community is well represented in this round of appointments. In fact, if your name is not on the list, you just might feel left out." Appointments of Jews in city government included: Education: Shelly Yanoff, Sandra Fellman, Ted Kirsch. Government Organization Specialists: Bennett Levin, Larry Silverman, Michael Sklaroff, Ronald Caplan, Sandy Fox. Policy and Programs: Stuart Shapiro, Ellen Solms, Neil Stein, Max Berger, Richard Green, Sharon Pinkenson, Roseann Rosenthal, Larry Cohen, Bart Blatstein, Marvin Block, Howard Asher, Joseph Zuritsky, Mike Masch, Deborah Kodish, Adele Manger, Stephanie Naidoff, Marjorie Sarnoff, Sandra Stein, Sallie Glickman, Brad Blumberg, Jeffrey Batoff, Judith Eden, Kenneth Goldberg, Wendy Rosen, Ted Hershberg, Paul Levy, Ronald Rubin, Connie Beresin, Howard Kessler, Larry Frankel, Michael Karp, Vicky Weitzman, Joel Posner, Rabbi Lina Grazier-Zerbarini and Sharon Weinberg. [FELDMAN, S., 12-16-99, p. 18]
In the same time frame, the Exponent also did an article about the visit of the Tel Aviv mayor to Philadelphia, noting that the two sites were "sister cities." "There has been, for a long time -- or as long as I can remember," noted the Chairman of the Jewish Federation, Joseph Smukler, "a special relationship between Tel Aviv and Philadelphia." [FELDMAN, S., 4-20-2000, p. 13]
Among new mayor John Street's ceremonial tasks was to cut the ribbon to open Philadelphia's new "National Liberty Museum: America's Home for Heroes." The museum's Executive Director is Gwen Borowsky. Wealthy media mogul Irwin Borowsky founded the organization. He also is the founder of the "American Interfaith Institute, which aims to expunge anti-Jewish sentiment from editions of the New Testament." Borowsky's museum, like so many these days, clearly aims to appropriate American patriotic heritage under the umbrella of Jewish Holocaust mythology. In the heart of Philadelphia, one of the icons of American heritage, the Liberty Museum features a second floor "hall of heroes [which] is studded with Holocaust memories." [MONO, B., 1-20-2000, p. 9]
And new Philadelphia mayor John Street's inevitable bending to Jewish Zionist concerns and their ties to Israel? In 1998, while still a city councilman, Street, his wife, and son were flown to Israel for eight days as a guest of a Philadelphia Jewish businessman, Joseph Zuritsky. Criticism of Israel, nor Jewish loyalties, was not the focus of a Philadelphia Daily News story about the trip. After all, as the paper observed, "Most of the potential candidates in the 1999 mayor's race, as well as Mayor Rendell, have traveled to Israel at some point in their careers -- and in most cases the trip was paid for or subsidized by one of several groups promoting closer U.S. ties to the Jewish state." These politicians courted by Zionists include Happy Fernandez, Doug Evans, and John White, Jr.) [BUNCH, W., 11-2-98] Rather, the Daily News piece examined the economic self-interests of Zuritsky (the CEO of the Parkway Corporation, Philadelphia's major "parking lot developer"), in sponsoring Street's trip to the Jewish state. The future mayor's journey "was paid for by a parking-lot magnate at the same time his firm was lobbying the [City] Council for millions of dollars in low-cost financing for a Center City development ... Zuritsky said he had no motive in sponsoring the trip -- which had planning assistance from several local Jewish community leaders -- other than to educate Philadelphia's highest-ranking black leader about Israel and Mideast politics. He said he wanted to promote ethnic harmony." [BUNCH, W., 11-2-98]
Among the critics of the trip was the president of the Philadelphia division of Common Cause, Barry Kaufmann,
Israeli propagandizing influence in the African-American community -- from Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley across the country to Philadelphia mayor John Street [the African-American mayor of Washington D.C. -- also included Washington DC mayor Marion Barry, famed when he was busted for cocaine possession in 1990. He also had a Jewish "longtime friend and campaign fundraiser": Jeffrey Cohen. [LAFRANIERE, S., 1-19-90]
Jewish/Israeli influence in the Black community was also noted by the Jerusalem Post in 1996, in a piece headlined "The Israeli "Secret" Diplomacy Inside the Afro-American Community." As the Post observed:
"There are 100 Black colleges and universities in this country but only 41 are members of the United Negro College Fund presided over by William H. Gray, III, the ex-congressman. And he is the 'secret weapon' of Israel ... Black scholars, intellectuals and students are the new Israeli target group."
Softening African-Americans to Israeli propaganda is expedited by "Israel Cultural Days" at Black American colleges, visits by Ethiopian Jews (who, never stated, face, as Blacks, omnipresent racism in Israel: see Israel chapter), and vacations to Israel for seven presidents of African-American colleges to build "a new bridge between the academic community in Israel and the black academic community in this country." [NAHSHON, G., 3-96]
In 2001, after the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington DC, even Al Sharpton, the controversial African-American religious leader who had long been at odds with Jewish organizations, visited Israel. As Rabbi Shmuley Boteach explained, Sharpton was known as "someone who was antagonistic to the Jewish community. But I think anyone who knew him privately, Rabbi Schneier, myself, [knew] that was clearly not the case ... After September 11 ... he said to me that he wanted to make a bold gesture of reconciliation to the Jewish community ... I hope that all my Jewish brothers and sisters will extend not just an olive branch, but a warm hand of familial friendship, seeing Rev. Sharpton as a friend of the Jewish community, as a friend of the State of Israel." [FORWARD, 10-26-01] The Village Voice also notes that Sharpton has also been courted by Jewish New York mayoral candidate Mark Green who "took Sharpton and his wife to the opening of a performance of Judgment at Nuremberg, a Broadway play about the Holocaust. At the same time Green was trying to kosher Sharpton, he was riding his coattails to popularity in the African American community." [NOEL, P. 10-22-01]
"The Weprin name is as synonymous with Jewish affairs as it is with Queens politics. So some members of the City Council's Black and Hispanic Caucus were understandably taken aback when a membership application arrived from Councilman David Weprin - whose mother is a Jewish-Cuban immigrant. Some of the caucus' 25 members are resisting, which is troubling because of the message it sends. Even if the Hollis Democrat has not identified as much with Hispanic causes, he is emblematic of a city in which many people claim multiple heritage. That he's extending his reach later in life is a poor excuse for discouraging him from joining the caucus, which is not some private club."
"If the Israeli Zionists believe their present occupation of Arab Palestine is the fulfillment of predictions made by their Jewish prophets, then they also religiously believe that Israel must fulfill its "divine" mission to rule all other nations with a rod of irons, which only means a different form of iron-like rule, more firmly entrenched even, than that of the former European Colonial Powers. These Israeli Zionists religiously believe their Jewish God has chosen them to replace the outdated European colonialism with a new form of colonialism, so well disguised that it will enable them to deceive the African masses into submitting willingly to their 'divine' authority and guidance, without the African masses being aware that they are still colonized ... The Israeli Zionists are convinced they have successfully camouflaged their new kind of colonialism. Their colonialism appears to be more 'benevolent,' more 'philanthropic,' a system with which they rule simply by getting their potential victims to accept their friendly offers of economic 'aid,' and other tempting gifts, that they dangle in front of the newly-independent African nations, whose economies are experiencing great difficulties ... The modern 20th century weapon of neo-imperialism is 'dollarism.' The Zionists have mastered the science of dollarism: the ability to come posing as a friend and benefactor, bearing gifts and all other forms of economic aid and offers of technical assistance. Thus, the power and influence of Zionist Israel in many of the newly 'independent' African nations has fast-become even more unshakeable than that of the 18th century European colonialists... and this new kind of Zionist colonialism differs only in form and method, but never in motive or objective."
"I have experienced Palestinians pointing to what were their homes, now occupied by Jewish Israelis. I was walking with Canon Naim Ateek (the head of the Sabeel Ecumenical Centre) in Jerusalem. He pointed and said: 'Our home was over there. We were driven out of our home; it is now occupied by Israeli Jews.' My heart aches. I say why are our memories so short. Have our Jewish sisters and brothers forgotten their humiliation? Have they forgotten the collective punishment, the home demolitions, in their own history so soon? Have they turned their backs on their profound and noble religious traditions? Have they forgotten that God cares deeply about the downtrodden? Israel will never get true security and safety through oppressing another people. A true peace can ultimately be built only on justice. We condemn the violence of suicide bombers, and we condemn the corruption of young minds taught hatred; but we also condemn the violence of military incursions in the occupied lands, and the inhumanity that won't let ambulances reach the injured. The military action of recent days, I predict with certainty, will not provide the security and peace Israelis want; it will only intensify the hatred ... My brother Naim Ateek has said what we used to say: "I am not pro- this people or that. I am pro-justice, pro-freedom. I am anti- injustice, anti-oppression." But you know as well as I do that, somehow, the Israeli government is placed on a pedestal [in the US], and to criticise it is to be immediately dubbed anti-semitic, as if the Palestinians were not semitic. I am not even anti-white, despite the madness of that group. And how did it come about that Israel was collaborating with the apartheid government on security measures? People are scared in this country [the US], to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful - very powerful. Well, so what? For goodness sake, this is God's world! We live in a moral universe. The apartheid government was very powerful, but today it no longer exists. Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Pinochet, Milosevic, and Idi Amin were all powerful, but in the end they bit the dust."
"Oscar Wright lit the fuse in December when he remarked that an attempt to oust the district's superintendent was a play for 'white and Jewish control' of the predominantly minority district. He has continued to make such comments at school board meetings and to the press, which has in turn given wide coverage to his statements. Wright, 76, is a community activist and the appointed co-chair of the school district's Task Force on African-American students. He has a a history of anti-Semitic speech dating back to at least 1993. 'Wright should be removed from the task force,' said Jan Malvin, who works for Oakland's Human Relation Commission and has been following Wright's case for several years. Malvin, who is Jewish, said, 'The issue is racist rhetoric at the school board in general. Anti-Semitism is part of the bigger picture.' In 1993, Wright told the board that a cadre of Jews from the schools to the government to businesses was responsible for some of the 'wickedest acts of institutional racism against black people.' Local Jews didn't want to hear it again. 'He's the wrong person to hold an official position,' said Barbara Bergen, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League ... Wright's anti-Semitic epithets, however, are apparently directed at school board member Dan Siegel and Alameda County Superintendent of Schools Sheila Jordan. Both are Jewish ... Wright has not been the only one to denounce Jews in the Oakland school district in recent history. Superintendent Jordan said that when she was on the school board from 1988 to 1992, a flurry of anti-Semitic remarks was hurled at Jewish board members. Some Jewish members ended up resigning."
"The recent defeat of Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney of the 4th District of Georgia by Judge Denise Majette has caused vast soul searching among Black Americans. We may quibble over the causes of McKinney's defeat. Yes, there was a low Black voter turnout. Yes, White Republicans crossed over and voted against McKinney in the Democratic primary. Yes, certain prominent Black Americans withdrew their support for McKinney at a critical stage before the election. While all of the above were contributing factors to McKinney's defeat, the most significant cause was an outside force that mobilized strong support for her opposition. When asked to identify this force, Georgia state legislator and father of McKinney, Billy McKinney, stated to the media: "J-E-W-S." Indeed, it was the Jewish lobby that not only orchestrated, headed, mobilized and funded Congresswoman McKinney's defeat, these same organized Jews-particularly the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)-also defeated Alabama's five-term Black incumbent, Representative Earl Hilliard, earlier this year ... While I share the outrage of many Black Americans over this, the latest successful move by prominent Jews to silence outspoken Black leaders and to set the Black agenda, I also sense that there is greater indignation now than ever before over this ongoing affront. So much so that for many Blacks, THIS IS INDEED THE LAST STRAW!!! Consequently, it is high time-no, long past time-that Black Americans everywhere re-evaluate the so-called Black/Jewish alliance ... This tendency of prominent Blacks to placate Jews by ignoring their excesses or deflecting criticism from them is precisely why so many Jewish leaders and organizations have consistently criticized, defamed, degraded and defeated certain Black leaders with impunity-AND WILL DO SO AGAIN. Jewish leaders have clearly decided that, no matter how widespread the outrage among Black people, if Black leaders-fearing Jewish reprisals-continue to cower before them, to rationalize their racism and to apologize for their flagrant disrespect for Blacks, Jews will suffer no consequences for their actions ... In light of the crisis before us, Black leaders must close ranks and act on one accord. The defeat of McKinney and Hilliard is not the work of a disaffected ally, but of cold-blooded racists who are willing to block Black progress-no matter what the cost to Black Americans in a loss of power and influence-if it conflicts with the overall Jewish agenda. It is high time, at this historical juncture, for Black Americans-the long-suffering, ever-obliging buffer between Whites and Jews-to step aside and let Jews fend for themselves so that White people will, at long last, stop focusing on Black people and get a good look at American Jews, whose McCarthyistic tactics and stranglehold on Congress threaten to make this country the United States of Israel."
Blacks, Jews meet to mend relations, Washington Times, September 11, 2002 "The defeat last month of Rep. Cynthia A. McKinney has further widened the split between blacks and Jews, despite Democratic efforts to heal the rift dividing two key parts of an important coalition. Mrs. McKinney's loss in the Georgia primary was the second primary loss suffered by an incumbent black Democrat. Rep. Earl F. Hilliard of neighboring Alabama lost in June. In both elections, the incumbents blamed Jewish money flowing to their opponents ... Mrs. McKinney's father, state Rep. Billy McKinney, said before the Georgia primary that the effort against his daughter was a Jewish plot. 'Jews bought everybody. That's J-E-W-S,' he said."
Wither Congress, Wither America? Crushing Congressional Dissent: The Fall of Hilliard, Barr and McKinney, Counterpunch, August 22, 2002 "Hilliard and McKinney join a long list of politicians who were defeated after advocating an independent U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East: Senators Charles Percy, James Abourezk, James Abdnor, and J. William Fulbright, and Representatives Paul Findley and Paul McCloskey. The careers of Adlai Stevenson and William Scranton were similarly ended after they supported a Middle East policy less tied to the interests of Israel. Only Michigan's veteran Representative John Dingell was able to stave off a recent assault from the powerful American Israel Political Action Committee (AIPAC) in a match off with fellow Representative Lynn Rivers in a redrawn congressional district."
Splenetic Thoughts for Dog Days From Cynthia McKinney to Katha Pollitt, to the ILWU to Paul Krugman, Counterpunch, August 21, 2002 "One less radical black voice in Congress. One less champion of labor. One less brave soul unafraid to jump the traces of political orthodoxy. Cynthia McKinney, five-term US rep from Georgia's Fourth District, was beaten in Tuesday's Democratic primary by Denise Majette, also black, a former judge, put in with the help of lots of money from American Jewish groups and by a hefty Republican cross-over in Georgia's open primary. Don't you think that if Arab-American groups or African-American groups targeted an incumbent white liberal, maybe Jewish, congressperson, and shipped in money by the truckload to oust the incumbent, the rafters would shake with bellows of outrage. Yet when a torrent of money from out of state American Jewish organizations smashed Earl Hilliard, first elected black congressperson in Alabama since Reconstruction, you could have heard a mouse cough. Hilliard had made the fatal error of calling for some measure of even-handedness in the Middle East. So he was targeted by AIPAC and the others. Down he went, defeated in the Democratic primary by Artur Davis, a black lawyer who obediently sang for his supper of the topic of Israel. Then it was McKinney's turn. A terrific liberal black congresswoman. Like Hilliard she wasn't cowed by the Israel right-or-wrong lobby and called for real debate on the Middle East. And she called for a real examination of the lead-up to 9/11. So the sky fell in on her. Torrents of American Jewish money showered her opponent, a black woman judge called Majette. Buckets of sewage were poured over McKinney's head in the Washington Post and the Atlanta Constitution."
Impact of McKinney Loss Worries Some Democrats Tension Between Blacks, Jews a Concern , Washington Post, August 22, 2002 "Black and Jewish political leaders voiced concerns yesterday that the defeat of Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.), a critic of pro-Israel policies, by a challenger receiving extensive Jewish support might intensify ill feelings between two important Democratic constituencies. Any increase in tensions between Jewish and African American voters, political activists said, could damage Democratic hopes of taking back the House and keeping control of the Senate. Aided by hefty contributions from Jewish donors and big vote totals in predominantly white precincts, former state judge Denise Majette soundly defeated McKinney -- 58 percent to 42 percent -- in Tuesday's primary in Georgia. Majette is strongly favored to win the Nov. 5 general election in the solidly Democratic district near Atlanta. Although both Majette and McKinney are African American, the unusual interest in their primary by pro-Israel groups backing Majette and by pro-Muslim groups backing McKinney triggered talk yesterday of a potential for sharpened conflicts between blacks and Jews -- in Georgia and elsewhere. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Tex.), chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, said that 'at the grass roots' among African American voters, there is a growing perception that "Jewish people are attempting to pick our leaders. . . . There is some concern about that. It's concern about any candidate being targeted by a special-interest group for voting on any one issue.'"
"Gov. James E. McGreevey is seeking the power to fire the state's poet laureate, who has refused repeated calls to resign after writing a Sept. 11 memorial poem criticized as anti-Semitic. Legislation giving the governor the authority to end Amiri Baraka's two-year term could be introduced as early as Monday, McGreevey said Sunday. Last month, McGreevey demanded Baraka's resignation after the poet read 'Somebody Blew Up America' at an August festival. Then he tried to fire him, but the attorney general ruled he did not have the authority. The poem, written in October 2001, refers to an oft-repeated but long-discredited rumor, saying: 'Who told 4,000 Israeli workers at the Twin Towers to stay home that day? Why did Sharon stay away?'"
N.J. Poet Strikes Back at Critics, By Michael Weissenstein, Newsday, October 17, 2002 "Stung by accusations of anti-Semitism, New Jersey poet laureate [and African-American] Amiri Baraka struck back at critics from the stage of a downtown poetry cafe, saying he wanted to know 'why the Anti-Defamation League is not registered as an agent of a foreign power.' The Jewish civil rights organization and the governor of New Jersey have called for Baraka's resignation over his poem, 'Somebody Blew Up America,' which implies that Israel had prior knowledge of the Sept. 11 attacks. In a nearly hour-long monologue and question-and-answer session Thursday at the Bowery Poetry Club, Baraka criticized Israeli and Jewish groups' involvement in U.S. politics and reiterated that he would not give up his post ... New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey has sought Baraka's resignation as official state poet. A pending bill in the state legislature would give the state Council for the Humanities authority to remove the laureate. The title cannot currently be rescinded. Baraka also blasted McGreevey for appointing Golan Cipel, an Israeli national, as his unpaid liaison to New Jersey Jews. 'In New Jersey, there is an Israeli national shaping the opinion of the state's Jewish community,' Baraka said."
"An employee working for the Broward County supervisor of elections may find himself having difficulty with more than helping manage the election, Channel 10 News has learned ... Channel 10 reporter Jeff Weinsier has been looking into [African-American Jimmy] Davis' background and performance. Here's a sample of Davis' writing that Weinsier found in the Westside Gazette published in late 2000: 'How dare the Jews ask or have the nerve to demand an apology or compensation from their oppressors.' 'The Jews must turn that money over to blacks because they accumulated their wealth through the slave trade.' And later: 'It is difficult for me to find sympathy for what the Jews are calling a holocaust' ... Channel 10 News has learned that soon after Davis was hired, there were problems on the job. Elections officials found what they describe as anti-Semitic e-mails on Davis' computer in the supervisor's office. After less than two weeks on the job, personnel records show Davis' pay was cut, he lost his supervisor's position, and he was demoted. Weinsier was told that the reason Davis was not fired was because the evidence against Davis was 'second and third hand.'"
"The Rev. Al Sharpton hosted a delegation of Israeli students at his Harlem offices last week in what many saw as a bit of image-polishing ahead of his intended run for president in 2004. The controversial civil rights leader, who antagonized many Jews and others in the past decade with his comments during several racially fraught episodes in the Empire State, welcomed the two Ethiopian-born and two native Israeli students at his National Action Alliance headquarters in a meeting arranged by the Israeli consulate. They discussed how terrorism had changed life in Israel and America, while the reverend showed the students some gifts he had received at an absorption center for Ethiopians during his trip to Israel last year. The consulate billed the meeting as 'another show of solidarity with the people of Israel' and a 'look at the human price of terrorism' ... Sharpton's relations with New York Jews also have ramifications for national Democratic politics ... Sharpton's consultant Ramirez said the minister had not yet decided to make a presidential run ... The Jewish vote is a crucial factor in Democratic primaries in New York and California. Dismissing any political concerns, the Israelis, for their part, professed themselves to be pleased with the Sharpton meeting. David Nekrutman, the consulate's director of community relations, said the consulate had staged two previous events with Sharpton: a meeting before his trip to Israel and a September 11 memorial prayer service six months ago. As far as Israel is concerned, such meetings serve to 'bring a face of Israel not shown in the media... meaning a black face' to the attention of Americans, Nekrutman said."
[Alan Keyes is African-American and a former member of the United States delegation to the United Nations] "Alan Keye's quixotic run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2000 may not have attracted many voters, but it made him a leading figure among conservative intellectuals. The protests, particularly among American Jews, over the cancellation of his talk show on MSNBC earlier this year showed his popularity broadening among at least one more liberal constituency ... Q: What is behind the love affair behind American Jews and Alan Keyes? How do you react to headlines this one in a recent Jewish newspaper: 'Jews Go Ga-Ga for Pro-Israel TV Host?' A: I've simply tried to talk about issues in a way that I think has integrity ...Q: Does the concept of Israel being a light unto the nations have meaning for you? A: The twentieth century and the culmination of the aeons-long saga of the Jewish people in the Holocaust set the stage for one of the most breathtaking demonstrations of the inextinguishable quality of the human spirit. Israel is the tangible manifestation of the truth that I see in Jewish people all the time and marvel at."
"It's odd to say the least --Joe Lieberman, first ever Jewish-American presidential candidate, leading the Democratic field in support from black voters. But according to a recent USA Today/Gallup poll asking black Democrats who they liked best from a list that included Al Sharpton, that's exactly what is happening today. The first explanation most political observers give for this popularity is also the most obvious: name identification. A former vice presidential candidate gets a head start from having his name on the leftover blue and red bumper stickers that still decorate the rear ends of cars across the country ... And since the 2000 campaign ended, even before he knew for sure he would run in 2004, Lieberman spent time cultivating support among African-American leaders in Washington and around the country ... Last spring, as he waited for Al Gore to decide whether to make another bid for the White House, Lieberman telephoned Eddie Bernice Johnson, then head of the Congressional Black Caucus, to ask which caucus members he might support with his PAC. She gave him a list of the CBC members thought to be most vulnerable, and Lieberman contributed to almost 20 of them. Among his contributions was a $1,000 check to the reelection effort of Rep. Earl Hilliard of Alabama. Hilliard had a long record of hostility to Israel. He refused to sign a resolution in support of Israel's war on terrorism, and sponsored a bill, after September 11, that would have lifted sanctions on states that sponsor terrorism. Columnist Cynthia Tucker called Hilliard 'a loose cannon, a dimwit, and perhaps a crook' who 'gained a reputation for trying to persuade his colleagues to vote against pro-Israeli initiatives.' Hilliard lost in a nasty June primary in which his opponent solicited and received large sums from Jewish Democrats. After the race, he warned of a 'future with a great deal of conflict between African Americans and Jews in this country' and suggested African Americans would seek 'retribution' for his loss. Lieberman's advisers point out that the money was given in late March, several weeks before the primary turned into a bitter referendum on the Middle East. But the senator's critics say the Hilliard contribution is one example of just how far Lieberman is willing to go to win support among black politicians and voters. Another, they say, came last week, when Lieberman blasted the Bush administration for filing a brief with the Supreme Court opposing the University of Michigan's affirmative action program. 'I am deeply disappointed by the president's decision today,' Lieberman said. 'This was an opportunity for the president to demonstrate his commitment to achieving real equality in education. Instead, he sided with the right wing of his party, and sent a signal that equal opportunity in higher education is a low priority for his administration.' It's a shot that might be expected from any of the other Democrats running for president. But Lieberman's own views on racial preferences in the mid-1990s put him arguably to the right of where President Bush is today ... Lieberman went further. He infuriated many in his own party when he said he would support California's Proposition 209--a 1996 statewide ballot initiative that banned racial preferences--taking a step then Governor George W. Bush would not ... [African-American] Representative Maxine Waters said Lieberman must be 'vigorously opposed' because 'what he's doing is dangerous.' A local Connecticut Democratic party chapter circulated a petition to oppose Lieberman's efforts, and Jesse Jackson teamed with the National Organization for Women to sponsor an anti-Lieberman rally at Yale University, Lieberman's alma mater. Jackson also fired off a four-page letter to Lieberman calling the senator's remarks 'particularly irresponsible,' later adding that on affirmative action 'Lieberman and Jesse Helms are indistinguishable.'"
"Reverend Al Sharpton is seeking campaign contributions from the Jewish community like any other presidential candidate, according to his political adviser. Former Bronx Democratic Party chairman Roberto Ramirez told the Forward that Sharpton's 'progressive, populist and clear message' would attract Jewish campaign dollars despite his often dicey relations with the community. The civil rights firebrand is anathema to many New York Jews because of conduct many Jews viewed as inflammatory during two local racial incidents: the 1991 Crown Heights riots and the demonstrations that preceded the 1995 torching of a Jewish-owned clothing store in Harlem. Eight people died in those incidents ... 'I would hope and argue that in there lies a wealth of support,' Ramirez said in an interview in his New York office Monday. Jewish donors supply a vastly disproportionate share of the millions raised by Democratic presidential candidates; the amount has never been measured, but political operatives say that it is more than half. Ramirez said that Sharpton, who plans on creating a presidential exploratory committee later this month, did not need as much money as some others would ... Rabbi Marc Schneier, president of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding and a Sharpton confidant, said the minister would have 'limited' support in the Jewish community. 'He has sought rapprochement with the Jewish community,' Schneier said, but "the Jewish community at large is very suspect and remains very much on edge when it comes to Al Sharpton and his candidacy.'"
"The Zionist Organization of America has denounced two universities for inviting Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu to speak on their campuses. Citing at least half a dozen instances in which the anti-apartheid activist spoke out against Israel, ZOA president Morton Klein criticized Yeshiva University's Cardozo School of Law for hosting Tutu last week and the University of Pennsylvania for inviting Tutu to be its commencement speaker in May. Tutu, said Klein, 'is viciously anti-Israel. To give a podium [to a] man who hates Israel, who compared Israel to Hitler, is shameful.' In a speech last year in Boston, Tutu was quoted by the Israeli daily Ha'aretz as saying the Palestinian experience 'reminded me so much of what happened to us black people in South Africa.... I say why are our memories so short? Have our Jewish sisters and brothers forgotten their humiliation?' Tutu has also voiced support for efforts to convince American universities and municipalities to divest from Israel. The ZOA is not alone in objecting to Tutu. 'Many students would have preferred that Tutu not be chosen as commencement speaker,' said Rabbi Howard Alpert, executive director of Hillel of Greater Philadelphia. 'That being said, since he is coming, most students are hoping that their commencement, that their one graduation, will go on unimpeded.' Tutu could not be reached for comment by press time, but other Jews have defended Tutu against charges of antisemitism. 'He's the chief patron of the Holocaust museum' in South Africa, said Yehuda Kay, national director of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies 'In no way is... Archbishop Tutu an antisemite.'"
"Tonight's Michigan Democratic Party Black Caucus awards dinner is drawing fire from some Republican state lawmakers who object to the group's choice of a keynote speaker. Led by Rep. Marc Shulman, R-West Bloomfield Township, a group of House Republicans has called on caucus chair Derek Albert to rescind the group's invitation to the Rev. Al Sharpton to speak at its awards dinner 'because of (Sharpton's) long history of intolerance, racism and anti-Semitic statements.' In a letter dated May 1 and signed by 27 House Republicans, Shulman cites examples where Sharpton, a 2004 Democratic presidential candidate, was quoted making derisive comments linking ancient Greeks with homosexual behavior and Jews with 'diamond merchants.' In another quote, Sharpton reportedly referred to former New York Mayor David Dinkins as 'that n----- whore turning tricks in City Hall.' 'I'm disappointed,' said Rep. Shelley Goodman Taub, a Bloomfield Hills Republican who signed the letter. 'This is a really insensitive choice by the caucus, very insensitive to other minorities. Some of the things Rev. Sharpton said about Jews and Greeks and white people are just very offensive.'"
[Buying the Black vote:] After controversial election battles, AIPAC reaches
out to black caucus, By Eli Kintisch, Jewish Telegraphic Agency,
May 13, 2003 "As it gears up for a struggle over the 'road
map' toward Israeli-Palestinian peace, the American Israel Public
Affairs Committee is making special overtures toward the Congressional
Black Caucus, a group with which it has had rough relations in
the recent past. As part of its annual Washington convention,
the pro-Israel lobby honored the caucus chair, Elijah Cummings
(D-Md.), and the rest of the caucus at a special dinner March
30, attended by roughly 1,000 AIPAC donors from around the country.
Then, on April 24 in New York, AIPAC's executive director, Howard
Kohr, joined other Jewish community leaders for a lunch with rap
mogul Russell Simmons, who has tried to promote better relations
between the caucus and the Jewish community. With Congress focused
on domestic affairs, it may be too early to judge how effective
AIPAC's efforts have been to improve support from the black caucus
on Middle East-related resolutions and initiatives. But the first
test of that support suggests a decidedly mixed result: An April
letter to President Bush that AIPAC backed, expressing concerns
about aspects of the U.S.-supported road map, was signed by 313
House members - but only 18 of 39 members of the black caucus.
An AIPAC official said the purpose of the March dinner was to
continue efforts to 'strengthen relations between our community
and members of the Congressional Black Caucus.' Another goal was
to honor Cummings 'and the members of the CBC for their long-standing
support of Israel and to reaffirm to our own community that most
members of the caucus support a strong and secure Israel.' Since
the Palestinian intifada began in September 2000, some CBC members
have been among the most outspoken critics of resolutions they
consider too biased in Israel's favor. These include John Conyers
(D-Mich.) and Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), as well as former members
Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) and Earl Hilliard (D-Ala.). In May 2002,
only 22 members of the caucus - which then numbered 38 - voted
for a resolution expressing 'solidarity with Israel.' Five voted
against the resolution, and 11 skipped or voted 'present.' The
resolution, which made only a brief reference to Palestinian suffering
from Israel's anti-terror measures, passed the House by a vote
of 352-21 ... Experts say that blacks and Jews agree on many political
issues. The two groups strengthened their ties during the civil
rights era, when Jews were an important ally to black groups,
but they have frayed in recent years over such issues as affirmative
action. In the 2002 election cycle, wealthy Jewish donors from
around the country, many of them AIPAC members, supported Democratic
primary challengers against incumbents McKinney and Hilliard.
After bitter and expensive primary fights, the pair were ousted
by black challengers, leading to accusations from black congressmen
that outsiders were meddling in their elections. U.S. Reps. Denise
Majette (D-Ga.) and Artur Davis (D-Ala.), the winners in those
elections, signed the road map letter to Bush. Majette said her
backing of Israel had nothing to do with the financial support
she received from the Jewish community ... Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.)
... is helping organize a trip to Israel for black and Jewish
members of Congress, which would be a first. The trip, spearheaded
by Hastings, Howard Berman (D-Calif.), Henry Waxman (D-Calif.)
and Cummings, is tentatively scheduled for this summer."
Los Angeles - A Black radio broadcaster
was removed from his position by KPFK-FM after mentioning
the contents of the book, The Secret Relationship
Between Blacks and Jews, during a thirty hour program
entitled "Afrikan Mental Liberation Weekend." The weekend
broadcast, an annual affair produced by Dr. Kwaku Person-Lynn
of California State University, featured thirty hours of taped
lectures and discussion with progressive Black thinkers who provide
a perspective that is rarely heard in media.
The Anti-Defamation League filed a complaint with the Federal
Communications Commission charging that the station had engaged
in a "lengthy diatribe against the Jewish community"
and violated the FCC's personal attack rule. "It's been an
extremely unfair attack based on scholarship that they did not
want broadcast to the public," said Person-Lynn and added
in an editorial response, that the "main issue" is that
Blacks are rising to the point "where it will no longer depend
on outside communities for the manufacture and distribution of
its goods." He indicated that those whom Blacks depend on
profit from our dependency and are the most resistant to independent
voices.
Person-Lynn went on to challenge two Jewish officials in Los Angeles
to a debate saying that he "was willing to face either in
a public forum. I would present my evidence and they could present
theirs. Both declined. What are they trying to hide?," he
asked.
"Those who are so willing to condemn me, are really trying
to dismiss the potency of universal Afrikan scholarship, which
is liberating many minds from much of the Western propaganda."
A memorandum addressed to Civil Rights leaders authored by White Jewish Rabbi David Saperstein and marked "Confidential and Personal" threatened Jewish reprisals if Minister Farrakhan were allowed to speak at the 1993 March on Washington. Though invited to speak Minister Farrakhan was dis-invited at the last minute by negro organizers based on this memo. Mrs. Coretta King, Rev. Lowery of SCLC, NAACP's Ben Chavis, Jesse Jackson, Walter Fauntroy and others could all be heard chanting a collective "YESSUH BOSS" even before the White rabbi could get the order through his fax machine.
Here are excerpts from the August 13, 1993 memo:
CONFIDENTIAL AND PERSONALTo: Mrs. Coretta Scott King, Rev. Walter Fauntroy, Bill Lucy, Rev. Jesse Jackson, William Gibson, Rev. Ben Chavis, Lane Kirkland
From: Rabbi David Saperstein
cc: Rabbi Alexander Schindler, Lawrence Rubin
...In the past 24 hours, however, two major problems have arisen. The first is that I understand that a tentative decision was made yesterday to invite Rev. Louis Farrakhan. I do not need to tell you what a devastating blow this would be to the solidarity of the coalition supporting the March.
While he participated in 1983, that was before all of the blow-up over his extreme statements generally, and his anti-Semitic statements in particular, beginning with his "Judaism is a gutter religion." For a decade, these problems have escalated....I thought this issue was resolved in 1988 when the decision was made not to invite him. The controversy over Rev. Farrakhan's participation will overwhelm the entire March. The media's obsession with such controversies, and Black-Jewish tensions particularly (around Rev. Farrakhan above all) will become the major story of the March. The substance of your talks and what the March represents will be totally drowned out. Obviously, all of the Jewish groups, (and, I suspect, other groups) will be forced to withdraw from participation in the March....I am exceedingly disappointed, considering how closely I have worked with all of you over the years and how strongly you must have known the Jewish community would react to these decisions, that these decisions were not only made without my participation and ability to share my community's concerns, but without even the courtesy of prior consultation. This feels like a major breach of good faith. Please reach me at my office 202-387-2800 or my home 202-263-4375 any time that is convenient for you to discuss this further.
The Black African Holocaust Conferrence
was held November 7 & 8, 1993 despite threats against organizers.
The conference was convened to develop strategies to overcome
the problems confronting the ex-slave in America. Originally scheduled
to be held at Medgar Evers College the contract was cancelled
on November 5 by college officials. When moved to a community
center the center's administration recieved a "special delivery"
letter on November 6 from funders warning not to rent the space
to the Holocaust Conference. The conference was then moved to
the Slave Theater where participants dealt with issues including
the Black/Jewish relationship. "It was precisely because
of the agenda which included the book, The Secret Relationship,
that the college shut us down," said Muhammad. "The
pressure to hide the truth of Jewish slave dealing was unbearable
for some in the administration to handle."
The Holocaust survivors are planning more discussion and activities
in the future, said Muhammad.
Bloodsuckers?
Long before Minister Farrakhan made any reference to this phenomenon Jack Nusan Porter, a Jewish sociologist was very clear about it in his article entitled "Mr. Goldberg and John Henry: The Relationship Between Afro-Americans and American Jews":
"The common stereotype of Jews owning the businesses in Black ghettos is based on solid evidence, not fantasy. Jews in the East and Midwest own a disproportionate number of businesses in Black areas. [Two Jewish researchers have shown] that some 40 percent of the stores are owned by Jews. [Another] study of 458 merchants in 15 cities (14 of the largest plus Gary, Indiana but not including Los Angeles, Miami, Houston, or any other Southern city) had the following religious breakdown of retail merchants: 37.9% were Jewish; 36.0% were Protestant; and 22.9% were Catholic... The breakdown by religion, when race is considered, increases the number: 51.3% of the white merchants are Jewish; 18.7% are Protestant; and 27.0% are Catholic."
ADL uses Farrakhan
to raise funds: Past president admits
anti-Blackism makes $
"The ADL, like the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, has built its financial appeal to Jews on its ability to portray the Jewish people as surrounded by enemies who are on the verge of launching threatening anti-Semitic campaigns. It has a professional stake in exaggerating the dangers, and sometimes allows existing racial or political prejudices in the Jewish world to influence how it will portray the potential dangers."
This is Michael
Lerner's description of the deceitfully racist Anti-Defamation
League (ADL) in a newly released book feebly co-authored by Cornel
West entitled Jews and Blacks: Let the healing begin. Lerner is not the
first Jew to accuse the ADL of Black-baiting for money. Former
ADL directors have made similar charges. In its own publication,
"Not the Work of a Day": ADL of B'nai B'rith Oral
Memoirs, Vol. 1, former ADL director Nathan Perlmutter
reminisces:
"A few weeks ago I had an expose [sic] on Jesse
Jackson. Quite, by coincidence, I wasn't aware of it,
we had one of those mass mailings going out for fund raising.
It was one of those mailings to lists that were not our usual
givers. The fund raising people tell me that in the several weeks
following these were small gifts, $20.00, $100.00, but there
were many of them we never had the response to a mailing
that we had in our July, 1984 mailing. Why? I think there are
several reasons.
Probably, one that is far from being the last reason, is that
in the last several weeks on matters that count to Jews, Jesse
Jackson, Mr. Farrakhan, and the Democratic Party's unresponsiveness,
we were seen and heard from....I believe that one of the strongest
things Jews have going for them is the anti-Semitic notion of
Jewish power. It is the image of Jewish power that is, in fact,
our strength not the reality of Jewish power...."
Why is Jerry Falwell symbolically the devil, but not Jesse
Jackson? Because we really have a greater animus against religion,
re Falwell, than we do against blacks who by definition are underdogs.
In this kind of racist thinking who will be forgiven or who will
be blamed is determined by race. Jesse Jackson gets away with
rhetorical murder."
Court Rules on Dr. Jeffries
A federal appeals court ruled on April 4 that City College of
New York Black Studies chairman Dr. Leonard Jeffries could
be demoted for making a 1991 speech where he mentioned the Jewish
involvement in the African slave trade and decried Jewish Hollywood
portrayals of Blacks. The decision overturns a 1994 decision upholding
Jeffries' First Amendment rights.
New book pretends to be a "dialogue" between
Jews and Blacks
Harvard professor Cornel West (see the Open
Letter to West by the African United Front) reprises the role
of Morgan Freeman in his latest literary equivalent to Driving
Miss Daisy. In Jews and Blacks, West drives Reform
Jew Michael Lerner all around town stopping at every anti-Farrakhan
canard, with ne'er an adequate rejoinder. With all the depth of
an Israeli travel brochure, West concedes every point, indeed
has no points, in this monument to unreserved negro submission.
Both are touring the lecture circuit under the guise, "Let
the healing begin."
Israeli scholar charges Jews with Dr. King were
'racists'
A new book by Jewish scholar, Israel Shahak, Jewish
History, Jewish Religion, casts doubt on rabbis in the Civil
Rights Movement:
"Surely one is driven to the hypothesis that quite a few
of Martin Luther King's rabbinical supporters were either anti-Black
racists who supported him for tactical reasons of Jewish interest...or
were accomplished hypocrites, to the point of schizophrenia, capable
of passing very rapidly from a hidden enjoyment of rabid racism
to a proclaimed attachment to an anti-racist struggle and
back and back again."
U.S. gov't teams with Jew in plot against Farrakhan
The daughter of Malcolm X has been indicted by the U.S.
for allegedly conspiring to assassinate Min. Louis Farrakhan.
Qubilah Shabazz, 34, is widely believed to have been set-up
by Michael Fitzpatrick, a Jewish crack-dealing con man
and member of the Jewish Defense League. Nation of Islam
chief of staff Leonard F. Muhammad immediately cast doubt
on the government account of the "plot," and announced
a fundraiser to assist Ms. Shabazz in her legal defense.
Disney's Pocahantas & Michael Jackson's
slurs
Michael Jackson apologized for using "anti-Semitic slang"
in the lyrics to a song on his new HIStory album. The song, "They
Don't Care About Us," included phrases like, "Jew me,
sue me" and "Kick me, kike me." Michael returned
to the studio to substitute "Strike me" for "kike
me" and "do me" for "Jew me." But do
you think Disney's Michael Eisner will be changing anything
in his Pocahantas movie? The G-rated animated film for America's
six-year-olds contains some of the most brutally hateful anti-Indian
language that can be imagined. Indians are routinely called "savages,"
"beasts," "filthy heathens," and "vermin."
The pernicious twisting of the historical record of the Jamestown,
Virginia, settlement is another story altogether. The story opens
in early 17th century England where a Virginia Company vessel
is loading to sail for the "New World."
Seemingly, they are going on the voyage to kill Indians. "You
can't fight Indians without Capt. John Smith," says one of
the crew. "That's right I'm not going to let you boys
have all the fun," retorts Capt. John Smith, his voice provided
by actor Mel Gibson. With their hearts of murder firmly
established, they set sail for America.
According to the movie's creators, Gabriel, Goldberg, Binder,
LaZebnik, Menken, Shwartz and Eisner, the Indians are
"bloodthirsty savages." If one of the savages gets in
the way in his lust for gold, "I'll blast him." A "proper
English greeting" for the "filthy heathens" is,
of course, bullets. It is an "act of betrayal" to see
an Indian and not to kill him, according to characters in this
children's movie. Song writers Menken and Shwartz's kiddie song
lyrics are as follows: "We shot ourselves an Indian, or maybe
2 or 3." "They are only good when they are dead."
And this classic ditty: "Kill this evil race,/Until there's
not a trace."
Truth is of no consequence in the Disney version. The ADL, who
vociferously attacked Michael Jackson calling him an "anti-Semite,"
was uncharacteristically silent on the open anti-Indian bigotry
of Michael Eisner.
The NAACP and Joel
E. Spingarn
Joel E. Spingarn (1875-1939) was the chairman of the board
of directors of the NAACP for many years. The coveted Spingarn
Medal, given yearly by the NAACP, was established by him in 1914.
According to recent revelations by the Memphis Commercial Appeal
newspaper he was also a spy for the United States Army. Spingarn
was hired in May of 1918 and given the rank of major in the Military
Intelligence Division (MID). Spingarn and a Black agent ran "a
small unit of undercover agents" who were looking for "proof
of subversion." The MID opened 100,000 pieces of mail a week
and monitored Black publications. According to the Appeal: "The
documents show Spingarn, who remained NAACP chairman during his
tenure at MID, used his post to obtain critical information for
MID, such as a list of the organization's 32,000 members."
Blacks, Jews and Paying the Piper
While the prattling and posturing persists, the true Black/Jewish
relationship proceeds. A Los Angeles judge has ruled that famed
Black guitarist Bo Diddley was cheated by his Jewish manager
of more than $400,000. Martin Otelsberg siphoned the money
from the singer's account for more than a decade. Otelsberg's
widow, Lila, was ordered to pay Diddley after he was refused access
to his financial records.
Singer Darlene Love, whose distinctive voice defined the
sound of the 60's, is suing her former manager Phil Spector
for the millions of dollars he made with her music. Love receives
no royalties from her recordings which continue to be reissued
on Spector's albums including one he shamelessly called "The
Best of Darlene Love." Love's voice also appears on movie
soundtracks including Steven Speilberg's Gremlins, and
Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas. Others have had their
royalty-free swipe at Love including Barbara Streisand
whose 70's hit Stony End was originally recorded by Love.
Love alleges that Spector, a Jew, manipulated her career and limited
her recording opportunities while becoming wealthy with money
generated from her unique vocal style.
ADL's 'Inner-City' Double Feature
Troubled Anti-Defamation League (ADL) director Abraham
Foxman, whose crusade to force every Black child to view Steven
Spielberg's "Schindler's List" has drawn angry rebukes
from Black leaders, now proposes that a movie version of "Roots"
be included on the bill. The Nation of Islam issued a press release
in April questioning the New Jersey governor's edict requiring
that all students view the Jewish film while excluding films which
document the Black Holocaust. The NOI suggested that "Sankofa,"
a riveting and explicit account of the horrors of the Black slave
trade by a Black filmmaker, be viewed additionally. Foxman's proposal
of the feel-good drama "Roots" is an effort, he says,
to connect "inner-city kids" to "things that are
real and immediate in their experience." He further prescribes
that Henry Louis Gates, Coretta King, Harry Belafonte and
Betty Shabazz go into the schools "explaining what
Martin Luther King had to say about hatred and bigotry
of any kind..." Black leaders suggested, however, that a
showing of some of Jewish Hollywood's despicable portrayals of
Black people might make the point better.
Once,
Twice, 55 times a nigger
New York - Jewish radio talk host Howard Stern treated
his 15 million listeners to a barrage of racial epithets including
Ku Klux Klan musical recordings entitled, "She Ran Off With
A Nigger," and "Nigger Hating Hat." The term "nigger"
was heard at least 55 times in 10 minutes according to taped recordings
of the show. Blacks were called a battery of names including,
"buck," "black bitch," "porch monkey,"
and they even introduced the derogatory term "yard ape"
into the racist lexicon. The February 1st broadcast which originated
in New York is heard around the globe and, according to Stern,
generates $252 million annually for the parent station.
Contrast Dr. Khallid Abdul Muhammad's lecture to 149 people
netting him $2,500. Jewish leaders were not asked to repudiate
even one of the 55 "niggers" - no boycotts were
called and no legislation was introduced to stop "hate speech."
Wellesley College
Professor Sues for Libel
Boston - Jewish Onslaught author Tony Martin has filed
two lawsuits alleging libel against a Jewish faculty member and
the MIT/Wellesley student publication Counterpoint. Mary
Lefkowitz, purportedly an "expert" in Ancient Greek
Studies at the Boston-area college and a Counterpoint advisor,
was elaborately exposed by Martin's students as incompetent and
unaware of the standard volumes of Greek history. Lefkowitz, according
to Martin, wrote an article, published by the magazine Measure,
which made "malicious and scurrilous allegations against
[Martin]."
Wellesley College president Diana Walsh mass-mailed a carefully
worded "denunciation" of the best-selling book The
Jewish Onslaught to 40,000 alumnae, faculty and press, claiming
to be "profoundly disturbed and saddened" by Martin's
identification of his attackers as Jews. Martin responded:
"What makes Jews so special? By what dispensation in Adam's
will do they enjoy monopolistic privileges over a debate that
concerns Blacks as well as Jews? Who has placed them beyond the
reach of scholarly enquiry and ethnic identification?"
Farrakhan Speaks to 12,000 Black Men: Jewish
Women Feel "Violated"
Harlem - Nearly 20,000 Black men turned out to fill just 12,000
seats as Minister Louis Farrakhan
ignited the peaceful gathering exhorting the attendees to "Do
For Self." Using the appeal that he alone enjoys among the
Black leadership, Farrakhan implored the brotherhood to seek peaceful
means in resolving disputes and to become more productive and
useful to the rise of the Black race. Beth Galinsky of
the Jewish Action Alliance protested the exclusion of White
Jewish women from the event. "There is no way in fiery hell,"
wrote Abiola Sinclair of the Amsterdam News, "that
you would be caught in upper Harlem, in the dead of night, trying
to get in where 10,000 Black men are gathering..." Nor would
they try to attend a meeting of Hasidim whose leadership is exclusively
male, observed another columnist. Galinsky and Norman Siegal
of the American Civil Liberties Union have threatened a lawsuit
against the NOI for discriminatory practices.
ADL Minstrel Show
Black female fundraiser at the New York office of the Anti
Defamation League (ADL) witnessed a minstrel show at the ADL
Fashion Accessories Torch of Liberty ceremonies in November of
1992. Cheryl Hamilton told the Amsterdam News that she
was "shocked" when "blue-eyed teenagers were suddenly
transformed into Black-faced modern minstrels. Then to add insult
to injury, they passed out white gloves to members of the audience."
The minstrel show was popularized by Jewish performers who mocked
Black people by wearing black shoe polish on their faces to the
enjoyment of their Jewish audiences.
Hamilton, who has been employed as a temporary worker at the ADL
reports hearing all sorts of racist remarks and innuendos from
the White employees and supervisors, according to the report.
She first reported the story to the New York Post which,
after consultations with the ADL, squashed the story. Hamilton
was unafraid of the consequences of making the story public. "I
believe in speaking my mind and doing the right thing."
Jews bring racist show to Canada
Toronto, Canada - A Jewish plan to revive the play Showboat
and bring it to Canada complete with its Ol' Man River
wailing negroes, self-hating darkies and nappy-headed pickaninnies
has created tensions among Blacks and Jews. This 1927 production
was hatched by Broadway Jews Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein,
II, based on a book by Edna Ferber, and delivered to
the public by Florenz Ziegfeld. Live Entertainment Corporation
owner Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gotlieb, who intend
to bring the play to Canada, apparently have trouble distinguishing
the subtle racism in Showboat lines penned for negro characters
such as:
Even with the involvement of all the aforementioned
Jews local Canadian Jewish Congress president Irving
Abella wants to know why protesting Blacks have "scapegoated"
Jews. But now the North York Board of Education Trustees have
voted to sponsor field trips to the show and to introduce the
Ferber book to school children despite the vigorous protests of
the first and only Black Trustee Stephanie Payne. The book "reinforces
the negative images and stereotypes used to denigrate people of
African ancestry, portraying them as subhuman savages, dim-witted,
childlike, lazy, drunk, irresponsible, and devoid of any human
characteristics." But North York's Mayor Mel Lastman
and the 11 Jewish trustees are unmoved and staunchly support the
planned production.
Live Entertainment's first advertisements for the musical depict
two Blacks pushing a bale of cotton while some Whites loll around
on a dock. Producer Drabinsky pulled the ads but the October opening
is expected to include Black protests. We shall overcome.
Lani Guinier Opposed by Jewish Groups
The National Jewish Coalition and the Orthodox Union's
Institute for Public Affairs vehemently opposed the nomination
of Lani Guinier to head the Civil Rights Division of the
U.S. Justice Department, and the American Jewish Congress,
the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation
League refused to endorse her. President Clinton withdrew
the nomination disallowing her an opportunity to officially answer
Jewish charges of being "anti-Democratic" and a "quota
queen." Black groups and individuals including the Congressional
Black Caucus, NAACP,
Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev. Ben Chavis, Mary Frances Berry, among
others decried the treatment of Guinier and pointed to Jews specifically
as the reason for the withdrawal.
Donahue Show Bows to Jewish Pressure-Cancels
show on Blacks and Jews
Phil Donahue capitulated to pressure from his Jewish staff
and reneged on a promise to air a show about the controversial
findings of the Nation of Islam's book, The Secret Relationship
Between Blacks and Jews. The show which was to be taped on
November 6th was scheduled to include four prominent Black scholars
all of whom have utilized the book in academic settings and one
who was fired from a Los Angeles radio station for simply reviewing
the book on the air. A spokesperson for the show and producer
of several award-winning Donahue projects, Lillian Smith, assured
a New York Nation of Islam representative that the date was confirmed
just a week prior to the show. Mr. Donahue himself followed up
and stated the same. The NOI representative who appeared on the
show a week prior was told specifically not to mention the book
on the air because of the scheduling of the program a week later
which would deal with the subject. Travel arrangements for the
guests had already been made when just two days before the event
the Donahue staff pleaded "ignorance" and cancelled
the show.
An early January show focussing on the Crown Heights conflict
was aired seemingly to put a "Black/Jewish" show on
record in anticipation of criticism for the November deception.
"We are not surprised," said CCNY scholar James Smalls.
"A subject this volatile is out of the range of a Donahue.
His power in [the television] industry is only an illusion."
Other scholars reacted similarly. "This book raises the Black/Jewish
debate to levels that are uncomfortable to his Jewish colleagues.
The bare truth is not the type of strip tease the Donahue Show
can handle." The Donahue Show is no longer on the air.
ADL book praises Jewish slave owners/dealers
Calls notorious slaving firm "kindly"
A 1976 ADL pamphlet entitled, American Jews: Their Story,
lists 13 pioneers of the American Jewish community - 10 of whom
have been definitively linked to the Black
slave trade. "These well-to-do men were highly respected
by their neighbors and proud of their religious heritage,"
states the pamphlet (p. 15). Prominent American Jews such as Aaron
Lopez, Moses Lindo and the Franks family are heralded in the pamphlet
as the pioneers of trade (p. 14) and all have been exposed in
The Secret Relationship Between Blacks
and Jews, Volume One, as slave dealers.
Aaron Lopez, a Newport merchant, owned at least 26 ships and recorded
at least 13 voyages to Africa to purchase Black slaves. Moses
Lindo of South Carolina imported 49 slaves from Barbados and owned
a slave ship named Lindo Packett. He was largely responsible for
the growth of the indigo industry and according to Dr.
Jacob Rader Marcus (who is cited as a source by the ADL),
he lived to see the industry "employ 10,000 slaves."
Philadelphia's Franks family were merchants in the "Indian
trade" and major suppliers of weapons to the colonists in
the destruction of Indians. It is believed that Levy Andrew Levy
was an agent of Franks when he participated in giving small-pox
infected blankets to the Indians.
The ADL pamphlet, published under the leadership of National Director
Benjamin R. Epstein, also takes the extraordinary step of referring
to the major slave dealing (and Jewish majority owned) Dutch West
India Company as "kindly." ADL officials would not comment
on the hate literature, and calls for repudiation of the Jewish
slave dealing colonists were ignored. "The question is no
longer whether Jews were involved in slavery," said a Historical
Research Department spokesperson, "but rather 'which American
Jewish colonists were not slaveowners or dealers?'"
Vice Presidential Smoke Screen
Albert Gore, VP of the United States of America denounced
the Nation of Islam for its supposed bigotry and anti-Semitism.
But Gore, unashamedly, used the occasion of his appearance before
some "prominent New York Jews" to make his condemnation.
The gathering was in honor of the Jewish owner of CBS Laurence
Tisch who is also the owner of Lorillard Corporation,
manufacturers of Kent, Newport, Old Gold, Satin and True cigarettes.
The New York Times described him as "a driving force
behind the Jewish Federation of Charities," but Larry
C. White, author of Merchants of Death: The American Tobacco
Industry, reports that in 1985 cigarettes made Tisch $325.6
million. "Ironically, it was Lorillard brand, Newport, that,
at the time Tisch was being portrayed as the ultimate philanthropist,
was carrying on one of the most blatant youth oriented advertising
campaigns ever." This share dwarfed the income from Tisch's
other businesses and allowed him the resources to buy CBS. Thirty-nine
percent of Black males and 27% of Black females are using tobacco,
according to Min. Farrakhan's book, A Torchlight for America,
and recent reports have revealed that the addictive nicotine is
actually added to the tobacco by the manufacturer to create the
addiction.
The former Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders under Clinton/Gore
has described cigarettes as "the only legal product that
will kill you if used as directed."
"Jews" try to muzzle Farrakhan
Chicago - The Parliament of the World's Religions was disrupted
recently when a White Jewish spy agency and three cohort organizations
withdrew as co-sponsors when they learned that The Honorable Louis
Farrakhan would address the body. The Anti-Defamation League,
an espionage group aligned with South Africa, collaborated in
the withdrawal with other Jewish groups including the American
Jewish Committee, the American Jewish Council and the Jewish Community
Relations Council. The protest created more interest in the lecture
in which Minister Farrakhan exhorted the representatives to "find
the common thread that binds the world's religions."
ADL faces new suit in spy scandal
Washington, DC - The Anti-Defamation League was named in
a lawsuit by 15 groups and seven individuals claiming that the
ADL violated their civil and privacy rights by engaging in "illegal
domestic surveillance." The ADL avoided an indictment in
San Francisco since it was discovered that ADL staff were in possession
of illegally obtained files from the San Francisco Police Department.
Madhubuti questions Henry L. Gates in new publication
Chicago - Third World Press head Haki Madhubuti released
a double issue of Black Books Bulletin challenging the
Jew-chosen leader of negro thought Henry Louis Gates. John
Henrik Clarke, Ishmael Reed and Tony Martin are among
those who pen responses to Gates' Judeophilism. Madhubuti opens
the assault: "Seldom has a Black intellectual been recruited,
pampered, patronized, positioned, empowered, lied to and anointed
as Henry Louis Gates, Jr....He is also the major voice for the
anti-Black, pro-white-Jewish wing of the academic and political
middle..." On the Jewish monopoly on the subject of Blacks
and Jews: "There has been only one single author book published
[by Blacks] on Black-Jewish relationships prior to The
Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews....On the
other hand, I have in my library over 22 books written or edited
by Jewish authors that examine the 'Negro/Black-Jewish' question.
The number of Jewish writers producing books exclusively on the
'Black' question falls into the hundreds. The intellectual problem
is that the criticism has been one-sided and Mr. Gates jumps to
the side of the critics."
Michael Levin, CCNY Jew
Professor Michael Levin of City College of New York is a strong advocate of the moral and intellectual inferiority of black people. Here are a few statements from Levin's 1997 book, Why Race Matters:
"[The worst black criminals] display viciousness almost unknown among whites. The most effective step might simply be a return to now-discredited practices like the chain gang."
"The labor of many blacks is not valuable to most people."
"Any multiracial society will find blacks less law-abiding than whites."
"Blacks today enjoy full access to a system of public schools supported primarily by whites."
"Blacks are less intelligent than whites and more impulsive, for largely biological reasons."
"The limited interest in blacks shown by conventional historians is best explained by the belief that further interest was unwarranted."
"No amount of training and childhood enrichment can shrink the race gap."