Posts Tagged: Black Jewish relations
Resilient Alliances: A Blueprint for Black-Jewish Collaboration in 2025 and Beyond
History shows that when two resilient communities join forces, they can achieve transformative change. The Black and Jewish communities have long been examples of this,...
The Moral Clarity of Martin Luther King and His Support for Israel
Arab intentions were no secret by the Spring of 1967. Egyptian troops were massing near the Israeli border on May 15. By the 18th, Syrian...
Anti-Israel Educators Promote ‘Solidarity with Palestine’ in Public Schools
It was inevitable. Anti-Israel professors at the college level have spawned a generation of teacher-consultant-activists seeking to inject false, anti-Israel narratives into American public schools....
Rebuilding Black Support for Israel
The relationship between the African-American leadership and Zionism has had an unfortunate trajectory. As Jacques Berlinerblau writes in "Blacks and Jews in America," his new...
How Zionists Helped Defeat Segregation
This year, Martin Luther King, Jr., Day will be commemorated just before the 75th anniversary of a remarkable but little-known campaign by American Zionists and...
Don’t Let Palestinian Recalcitrance Hold Israeli-African Relations Hostage
Palestinian advocacy groups and certain countries are pressuring the African Union (AU) to rescind Israel’s observer status, when the AU executive council meets...
Social Justice Includes Support for Israel
W.E.B. Du Bois once spoke of a “double-consciousness” felt by Black people in the United States. Even when accepted by white society, he argued that Black Americans...
Stop Ignoring Antisemitism in Inconvenient Places
An exhibition that is currently running at the Wiener Holocaust Library in London reveals that in every European country that fell under Nazi control, there...
Reverend King and Rabbi Heschel — Spiritual Brothers and Souls
In 1968 in Chicago, two prophetic visionaries -- Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel -- had their first summit. As Reverend King...
Black and Jewish Communities Stand Together Against Hate
JNS.org - You don’t have to look far to see that hate and division are tearing apart our communities. But it’s our own fault. We...
Campus Advocacy Group Urges Pro-Israel, Jewish Students to Forge Ties With African-American Communities
JNS.org - This year’s Maccabee Task Force conference for students and professionals across America and Canada highlighted the importance of forging ties between Jewish and...
Shmuley Boteach’s Negative Response to Ice Cube’s Positive Public Outreach to Jews Is Wrongheaded
It is no pleasure for me to show that Shmuley Boteach again carelessly gets things wrong or distorts truths. Shmuley condemns me, asserting that after...
The Necessary Means: The Black-Jewish Divide
In this time of profound racial unrest in the US, with African Americans publicly expressing their entirely justified anger and rage at the continuing injustices...
Jews, African-Americans and Communism in Harlem
Before World War I, German sociologist Max Weber argued that “the Protestant ethic” had engendered “the spirit of capitalism.” His colleague, Werner Sombart, countered that...
