By Naba’a Muhammad
From – https://theinnercitynews.com/
Reprinted – by Texas Metro News
With on-campus protests against Gaza genocide continuing, public opinion turning against Israel and growing outrage over Palestinian deaths, starvation and slaughter, Jewish groups and Zionists aren’t giving up.
They pressured university presidents to bring in cops and state troopers to bust up peaceful demonstrations while the semester is nearly over. They portrayed students as violent when young people are victims of police violence, threatened with expulsion, arrest, criminal records and miscast as extremists.
Democrat John Fetterman of Pennsylvania described them as lying in a “pup tent” for Hamas.
With the largest protests and more widespread protests against Israel than at any time in U.S. history, Zionists aren’t looking to change minds. They plan to destroy dissent and activity that unmasks and criticizes Israel.
They are using power with the media, endowments to schools, connections with politicians and political donations, and corporate and government influence. Their tactics are straight out of an Israeli government playbook.
“As worldwide protest escalates over Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, academic freedom and free speech are under all-out attack on university campuses in the United States, not just from university administrations and pro-Israeli groups, but now directly from the highest levels of the Israeli state. In a story that has been largely ignored in the Western press, the Israeli news website Ynetnews, one of the largest media outlets in the country, reported that the Israeli government has launched what appears to be a wide-ranging covert campaign to harass and intimidate students, faculty, and administrators into silence,” observed William I. Robinson in a TruthOut.org report published online March 23.
“The playbook of tactics employed by the Israel lobby include character assassination, selective misquotation, the willful distortion of the record, the fabrication of falsehoods and a complete disregard for the truth, gaslighting, blacklisting targeted individuals, political and economic blackmail, and even threats of violence,” Mr. Robinson added.
Calling all Black apologists?
Another essential tool will be using “trusted messengers” and influencers to spread the Israeli line and lies. Broadcaster and former pro-football player Emmanuel Acho is one but not the only example.
According to a recent article in the notoriously anti-Black New York Post, he has a book coming out with Israeli activist-actress and hardcore Zionist Noa Tishby. The two were put together by their agents and Tishby appeared on Acho’s YouTube “Uncomfortable Conversations With A Black Man” after the Oct. 7 attack on Israel. He had a best selling book of the same title.
As the Post reported: “ ‘Rather than talking about racism and the misunderstandings of the Black struggle,’ writes the 33-year-old Nigerian-American who was raised in Dallas, ‘we’re going to talk about antisemitism and the misunderstandings of the Jewish struggle.’ ”
Misunderstanding of the Jewish struggle?
Acho has either misunderstanding of the Jewish/Zionist reality or is willfully ignorant.
He asks whether Jews are White, which the vast majority of the settler Zionists are in Israel as are powerful Jews originally from Europe. These are the same people who oppress Ethiopian Jews in what is supposed to be a Jewish homeland.
Such reality has led some Orthodox Jews to condemn the state of Israel as an abomination established by man, not the Messiah. Jews are a people scattered across many nations who have no right to Palestine, they say.
White Jews are backed by their Caucasian brothers in the United States, the UK, Germany and other White nations who are co-conspirators in crimes against humanity in Gaza, blockaded by Israel since 2005, and murders in the West Bank.
Israel and Jewish groups like AIPAC, the ADL, the American Jewish Committee and the Simon Wiesenthal Center are moving to influence Black figures and position them as lackeys. Never mind some 35,000 deaths among Gazans, mass graves found after Israeli Defense Force troops pulled out of southern Gaza and famine stalking Palestinians.
Their targets are Black pastors, Black lawmakers, the Black Press and even Black institutions like Morehouse College in Atlanta where many are blasting the plan for President Biden, an unmovable backer of Israel, to deliver the 2024 commencement address. They don’t want a president nicknamed “Genocide Joe” associated with a major moment at a venerable HBCU.
Lies about Black-Jewish relations?
Back to the book: “Acho insisted he’s ‘1,000 percent’ proud of the book, especially how it could help heal the battered black-Jewish connection that’s been ‘hijacked’ by misunderstanding. ‘If the two communities would just spend more time talking, they would understand the similarities, and thus the tension would dissipate,’ he said of the natural affinity both communities have had for one another throughout American history.”
He repeats old lies and omits harsh truths: Jewish involvement in the slave trade, Jews in the Confederacy, Jewish exploitation of Blacks in urban centers, Jews who opposed having Blacks in White suburbs, and Jewish opposition to landmark affirmative action programs killed in 1978. Then there is the self-serving use of the Civil Rights movement to assert Jewish political power in ways not previously known chronicled in historian Marc Dollinger’s book, Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s.
“So there are basically three areas advanced for why Jews would involve themselves in the struggle for racial equality. All three turn out to be false. But the first would be the history argument, that says Blacks and Jews share a common history, and therefore Jews empathize with the historical experience of Blacks, and therefore they’re willing to help. Right?” he noted in an NPR interview.
“When I talk generally with white Jews about why Jews are involved in social justice or civil rights or racial equality, they’ll talk about this shared history of oppression. And the problem is that American Jewish history and African-American history are 180 degrees opposite on that question. One of my African-American colleagues, he said, ‘If I ever go to a Seder and the Jews say that they know what it’s like because they too were once slaves in Egypt,’ it would be deeply offensive.
“Because if Jews have to go back to ancient Egypt to get the slavery metaphor, then they’ve kind of missed that American Jewish history is a story of rapid social ascent, and African-American history is the legacy of slavery. That argument is insulting, and it’s very elementary.” Mr. Dollinger also happens to be Jewish.
Targeting Black leaders while asserting Jewish control
Consider Rev. Jesse Jackson’s 1984 presidential run where he was targeted and threatened because he wanted a balanced U.S. policy in the Middle East. Jews took out ads declaring, “Ruin Jesse Ruin!” mocking the Black chant of “Run Jesse Run!” Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan defended Rev. Jackson against threats against his life and called for dialogue. The Minister was attacked, condemned and the targeting, slander and lies have continued for some 40 years.
The NOI Research Group noted the more recent targeting of Kanye West and Kyrie Irving, and joke-tellers Dave Chappelle and Whoopi Goldberg. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) was attacked for having supported his uncle, the great scholar Dr. Leonard Jeffries, 32 years ago. Dr. Jeffries was targeted for not agreeing to hide the truth of Jewish slave trading.
“Jews Selling Blacks,” from the NOI Research Group, contains 240 pages of this hidden history. It features ads “placed in dozens of newspapers across America over many decades and show that Jewish slave traders were active in every region buying and selling Black African men, women, and children—even infants—alongside horses, mules, tools, and lumber, without a trace of concern for Black humanity. Jews bought and sold whole plantations—slaves and all—breaking up Black families in the process,” authors point out.
Friction grew between Blacks and Jews in the North as the civil rights movement turned away from the South and to urban areas – where Jews were often the slumlords and store owners who exploited Blacks.
The late scholar Tony Martin worked at Wellesley College as an associate professor and founding member of its Africana Studies Department. During the 1990s, he came under public criticism for encouraging his students to read The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, a book compiled by the Nation of Islam. In 1993 he self-published The Jewish Onslaught, which discussed Jewish attacks on Black leaders and scholars and the Jewish attack on Afrocentrism.
In 1995, pressure from Jewish groups led to a House hearing and witch hunt that ended federal contracts and the life saving work of NOI Security, a privately owned Muslim company, in reducing crime and violence in some the worst public housing complexes in the United States. That assault was led by the American Jewish Committee.
Every effort at economic and other progress embarked upon by the Nation of Islam is mercilessly attacked by Jewish groups.
In 2012, Minister Farrakhan took to the streets in Chicago and cities around the country with the Fruit of Islam to increase peace, lessen tension and curb deadly violence. Jewish groups again denounced him and called on Black leaders and politicians to disavow the effort.
And since a Saviours’ Day message delivered in Chicago in 2018, he has been subjected to literally almost daily, slander, outrageous lies and Black celebrities, athletes, politicians, and prominent leaders have been pressed by Jews to condemn him and keep distance from him.
Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism
But being anti-Zionist is not being antisemitic, Jill Stein, Green Party presidential candidate, told Al Jazeera. She was raised Jewish, has Holocaust survivors in her family and says she was taught a narrative that was not true. Oct. 7 was not the beginning but an episode in a history of violence that includes primarily Israeli violence, she noted.
Zionism has been controversial in the Jewish community, Stein continued.
It started with Jewish refugees seeking a place in the world, which is understandable, but they had no right to engage in the “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians, she added.
Stein was arrested April 27 as she joined protestors at Washington University in St. Louis. She called for an end to genocide, saying the students and Americans want it stopped.
So don’t be fooled by Black puppets. Seek and stand on the truth of yesterday and today. It’s the only way to change tomorrow.
Naba’a Muhammad, an award winning editor and columnist in Chicago is host of “Straight Words With Naba’a Richard Muhammad, Bj Murphy and James G. Muhammad,” which airs live Tuesdays, 9 p.m. to Midnight Central Time on WVON AM 1690 Black Talk Radio Chicago and is livestreamed at the I Heart Radio app and WVON.com. Get replays and more content at straightwords.com. Contact him at straightwords4@gmail.com follow @RMfinalcall on “X,” formerly Twitter and Instagram. You can find him on Facebook, Tik Tok and Google Straight Words Media for his other spaces.
