Posts Tagged: Black Lives Matter
How China Is Exploiting American Unrest
The state-controlled Chinese media enthusiastically covered the protests and rioting that followed the George Floyd killing. It compared the American protests to the protests in...
Are Jews Obligated to Support Reparations for African-Americans?
JNS.org - When writer Ta-Nehisi Coates made “The Case for Reparations” in The Atlantic in June 2014, few thought his idea had merit or had a...
Dershowitz: Is the ‘Black Lives Matter’ Platform Antisemitic?
In 2016 I wrote an op-ed demanding that Black Lives Matter rescind the portion of its platform that describes Israel as an “apartheid state” involved...
Islamists Appropriate Black Lives Matter Movement Despite History of Anti-Black Bigotry
JNS.org - Following the killing in police custody of Minneapolis resident George Floyd, several radical Muslim-American organizations have joined in nationwide protests to show solidarity...
Why Should We Give a Pass to Those Who Tweet Antisemitism?
Ours is a time when antisemitism is surging and the popularity of intersectional politics has given new credibility to radical groups that are keen to...
DC Protesters Trying to Link Black Lives Matter to Palestinians Chant, ‘Israel, We Know You, You Murder Children Too’
Protesters attempting to link the Palestinian cause with the Black Lives Matter movement shouted anti-Israel slogans and recited antisemitic poems in Washington, DC, on Wednesday. The...
Watchdog Slams Black Lives Matter UK for Claiming British Politics ‘Gagged of the Right to Critique Zionism’
A top British Jewish group slammed the UK branch of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) organization on Sunday after it tweeted a virulently anti-Israel message. “As...
Trump Says He Is Staying in Washington to Protect Law and Order
US President Donald Trump on Friday canceled a planned weekend visit to his golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey, and said he was staying in...
BLM, Israel and the Dangers of Intersectionality
In the past month, America has transformed from a landscape of empty streets under COVID-19 lockdown to streets crowded with protesters, vocalizing anger and grief...
Support Civil Rights With Everything You Have — but Look Carefully at Who You Support
One month ago, we witnessed the killing of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin in Minnesota; it was a scene that had played out...
Nazi Headstones and Confederate Statues Should Be Treated the Same
JNS.org - The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) agreed recently to the removal of a small number of headstones in US military cemeteries that...
Dear Jews: The Summer of 2020 Is Not About Us
JNS.org - An extraordinary moment has arisen in America that taps into a deep history of racism that predates the birth of our country. But instead...
The New Iconoclasm: Down With Jefferson, Up With Sharpton
Rarely a week passes without dramatic pictures on TV and in the press of sledgehammers taken to heroes of the Old Confederacy, along with new...
Johnson Condemns ‘Thuggery’ After Far-Right Protests in London
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson condemned "racist thuggery" after far-right protesters clashed in London on Saturday with anti-racist demonstrators and police trying to keep the...
