Wednesday, July 8, 2020

THE NEO-FASCISM OF BLACK LIVES MATTER, OR MURDER AND THEIR CORPORATE PAYMASTERS - Who are the slaves?

Coke, Nike, and Pro-Black Lives Matter Corps are Using Slave Labor

Modern Slavery Matters on the new Communist plantations.
 
Daniel Greenfield

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
Coca-Cola would like you to know that it cares about oppression and believes America is evil.
In a rambling statement by CEO James Quincey, titled, "Where We Stand on Social Justice", the head of the obesity conglomerate declared that he is, "outraged, sad, frustrated, angry."
It’s hard that out there for a guy in a racist country who is only making an $18 million salary.
The Coke CEO then pledged to give money to the social justice usual suspects and the company joined a boycott of Facebook to pressure it into censoring Trump and conservatives.
"Companies like ours must speak up as allies to the Black Lives Matter movement," Quincey ranted. "I’ve been reflecting on our duty to Black people in America. Simply put, America hasn’t made enough progress, corporate America hasn’t made enough progress and nor has The Coca-Cola Company."
While Coca-Cola pounds the Black Lives Matter pulpit, it’s got a present-day slavery problem.
The Congressional-Executive Commission on China had released a report in March on China's forced labor practices. The CECC is a bipartisan group that includes a wide range of national politicians from Senator Tom Cotton and Senator Marco Rubio to Senator Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Marcy Kaptur.
That report led to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act which, among others, named Coca Cola and Nike. Why did the media bury the story? Because it had bad things to say about its advertisers.
The CECC report and the accompanying legislation noted that Coca-Cola, Adidas, Calvin Klein, the Campbell Soup Company, Costco, Esprit, H&M, Tommy Hilfiger, Patagonia, and Nike were among those companies suspected of complicity in China's forced labor camps.
Coke and some of the other companies involved denied everything, but  a Wall Street Journal article noted that COFCO Tunhe supplies sugar to Coca-Cola and tomatoes to Heinz and Campbell. The Chinese state-owned company is the country’s largest food processor, the world’s second largest tomato processor, and one of the largest sugar processors in the world, with vast networks of plantations.
The corporations that decry racism in America allegedly benefit from the new Communist plantations.
“All the international brands trust us and buy our tomato purée: Heinz, Kraft, Unilever, Nestlé," Cofco Tunhe Vice-President Yu Tianchi had once boasted.
Unilever, the British-Dutch conglomerate whose brands include Dove and Breyers, has been a loud voice in the social justice movement, and has joined the boycott to force Facebook to censor conservatives.
“We have a responsibility for racial justice,” Unilever declared.
But does that racial justice include the slaves of China’s Communist regime?
Kraft-Heinz’s CEO Miguel Patricio had issued a hysterical rant about “systemic racism against African-Americans”.
"We at Kraft Heinz say BLACK LIVES MATTER," Patrico declared in a badly spelled and punctuated rant. "This week, we are talking with employees about one of our new Values, We demand diversity."
But how exactly will Heinz-Kraft's promise to expand "supplier diversity guidelines" play out in the tomato fields of Xinyang and its slave labor forces? Heinz-Kraft has been steadily cutting American jobs and outsourcing them abroad to reward the greed of big investors like Democrat donor Warren Buffett.
Slave labor is the cheapest labor of them all.
As China dominates tomato processing, all the social justice promises are obvious lies. The reality is toiling in the fields, men, women, and children, to do the hard work while execs preach social justice.
Coca-Cola meanwhile insisted that the COFCO facility the company used had passed an “internal audit”.
But what is COFCO?
Xinyang's agriculture is dominated by the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC). The XPCC is a paramilitary Communist organization set up under Mao to colonize and control the region using soldiers and convict labor. Its commercial arm is the China Xinjian Group which turns the colonial production of the XPCC commissars into commercial products. COFCO is an affiliate of the XPCC and dominates the tomato and sugar export trade for western companies.
Ning Gaoning, the COCFO boss, touted production as a vital part of "the ‘New Socialistic Countryside.’
In China’s new economic boom, the XPCC is less able to depend on Han soldiers or volunteers, and has been accused of shifting to forced labor in Xinyang and using Xinyang Aid to move slave laborers around.
Even while Coke’s boss blathers about racism in America, he’s getting his sugar processed by a Communist paramilitary colonization enterprise that has been accused of using slave labor.
“The vast majority of them ran back within a few days.” COFCO executives were quoted as complaining about their workforce.
Xinyang Aid has been trying to avoid the problem by moving slave laborers so far away that there’s nowhere for them to run.
A description of tomato harvests in Xinyang by another XPCC company tells a familiar story. “the harvest is still done by hand, with workers earning one euro cent per kilo of harvested tomatoes. Children often go with their parents and work alongside them in the fields.”
A report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute cast an even wider net, tying Apple, BMW Calvin Klein, Abercrombie & Fitch, GM, LL Bean, North Face, Gap, Volkswagen, and Nike, among others, to supply chains based around workers laboring "under conditions that strongly suggest forced labour."
A factory making shoes for Nike was "equipped with watchtowers, barbed-wire fences and police guard boxes." Nike Shox were discovered being made in another factory by slave laborers shipped far from home to produce shoes for the sportswear giant. Too far for them to run away.
“We can walk around, but we can’t go back,” one worker said.
The same company that holds up Colin Kaepernick, a millionaire anti-American activist, as an icon of social justice, also profits from an alleged slave labor facility that moved to be closer to “the region’s cotton fields”. The millionaire victims of imaginary racism that Nike wants us to care about are on their billboards while modern day slaves still toil in the cotton fields because their lives don’t matter.
The dirty secret of the big Corporate Left brands is that behind the familiar names and commercials, are huge conglomerates and financial investors who cut costs by outsourcing their production to China. The Americans design and market, but the real work is done by huge Communist enterprises, either owned directly by the state or by oligarchs tied to the Communist leadership, whose names you don’t know.
All this leaves the executives with plenty of time to come up with new social justice initiatives and call the country and the American people whose wealth, future, and hopes they’ve stolen, racists.
Throwing millions at lefty organizations, announcing more diversity initiatives, firing qualified people and replacing them with activists, is cheap and doesn’t touch the real source of the wealth flowing from plantations in the People’s Republic of China. And it’s those plantations that are the new slavery.
The Black Lives Matter rhetoric doesn’t affect the root injustice at conglomerates wiping out American jobs, including black jobs, and replacing them with minorities laboring in the fields in Communist China.
Foreign plantations, slave labor forces doing the dirty work in the cotton fields, aren’t in America, but they are the source of the wealth of a new class of politically correct plutocrats who subsidize the Democrat Party and the Left, preaching about social justice from their mansions, while their slaves are kept out of sight thousands of miles away by the commissars of the Communist slave trade.
The Corporate Left has made a dirty deal with Communist China to divide and conquer America.
The repetition of the black nationalist slogan, Black Lives Matter, is convenient because it deliberately excludes the non-black slave labor on whose backs the Corporate Left has built its endless billions.
While Americans are endlessly lectured about a brief period of African slavery, China had imported African slaves for some six centuries. Much like the Middle Eastern trade in African slaves, this fact is generally buried in order to perpetuate the leftist myth that African slavery in America was unique.
Or, as Senator Tim Kaine falsely claimed, “The United States didn’t inherit slavery from anybody. We created it.”
Of course, we didn’t.
Slavery existed throughout history. The 1619 Project is a lie, but China, unlike America, was built on slave labor. And China is expanding its colonial presence into Africa, building factories, and abusing the native population in a search of cheap labor. The products of that new black slavery in Africa, like the trade in slaves in Asia, will be sold by all the familiar brands now declaring that Black Lives Matter.

Black Lives Matter turns its back on child victims


By Andrea Widburg
The news is filled with stories of black children dying or exposed to violence in Democrat-run cities.  Actor Terry Crews, a rare principled individual in Hollywood, is refusing to back down from saying that all lives matter, a belief that inevitably demands that blacks address violence in their communities.
Faced with Crews's moral stance, CNN's Don Lemon announced that Black Lives Matter has nothing to do with black violence or dead black children.  It was an illuminating admission, to say the least.
The news, lately, is heartbreaking.  The mobs are gone, and so are the police.  Without police, violence in black communities is soaring, and children die.  Here are just a few of the stories.
On Sunday, a man was fatally shot in the Bronx as he walked across the street, holding his six-year-old daughter by the hand.  In the video, we see the terrified child, whose father has just been executed in front of her, run away.  Be warned that while you won't see bloody details in the video, it's a brutal snuff film:


On Saturday night in Atlanta, Black Lives Matters "protesters" killed an eight-year-old girl when her mother drove into a Black Lives Matter encampment.  Her parents understand that black lives didn’t matter to these psychopaths.
Also on Saturday, an 11-year-old boy was killed by a stray bullet when five adult men started firing their guns.  His grandfather, the founder of D.C.'s Guardian Angels chapter, also understands that, to the psychopaths firing wildly on city streets, black lives don't matter:

Terry Crews, unusually for someone in Hollywood, will not apologize for saying all lives matter:
Crews later appeared on dead-eyed Don Lemon's CNN program.  He made what was, to Lemon, a horrifying statement: if Black Lives Matter is to mean something, it must address black-on-black crime.
Crews is concerned that the BLM movement cannot be criticized.  He sees a "dangerous self-righteousness" that makes the movement "almost supremacist," say that "their black lives mattered a lot more than mine."
Lemon black-splains to Crews that any civil rights change is always viewed as extremism.  Crews, however, properly responds that if black civil rights movements don't have a non-racial component that improves society for all, people just end up moving from "one oppressor to the next."  King; Mandela; and, eventually, Malcolm X all understood this.
Then Crews reaches the nub of his argument, which is that black-on-black violence is killing children — and the Black Lives Matter movement has said nothing.  A perplexed Lemon asks what that has to do with equality.  Lemon says the gun culture and poverty are different from equality.  To him, it's apples and oranges.
Crews responds with the unforgivable truth: "Black people need to hold other black people accountable."  Blacks, he says, have to have their own version of the MeToo movement.  He reminds Lemon that good people are held hostage by the predators in black communities who then have the temerity to claim that black lives matter.
And it's at this moment that Don Lemon states the truth, which is that Black Lives Matter is a purely political movement that has nothing to do with black lives mattering:
The Black Lives Matter movement was started because there was talking about police brutality. If you want an All Black Lives Matter movement that talks about gun violence in communities, including black communities, then start that movement with that name. But that's not what Black Lives Matter is about.
Dead-eyed Don doesn't realize that "All Black Lives Matter" and "Black Lives Matter" mean essentially the same thing.  He tries an analogy: Crews, he says, is like someone claiming a group named "Cancer Matters" should also care about HIV.  What Lemon doesn't grasp is that cancer is not HIV, but black lives are black lives.
Terry Crews deserves a medal for his willingness to die on the hill of equality for all and, more importantly, the hill of personal responsibility.  No matter what whites have done, are doing, or will do, until blacks take responsibility for the violence that plagues the underclass, people, including innocent children, will continue to die

THE (REALITY) OF THE GLOBALIST DEMOCRAT PARTY AS IT SERVES THE RICH:


Anti-Semitic, open borders for cheaper labor and funded by criminal banksters… and these pols are making vast fortunes sucking the blood of America!
We must not let them cheat their way to power over the rest of us.  Their ongoing vote fraud must be stopped and the Democrats need to take a look at themselves and at what they have become. It's not a pretty picture.  What they have become threatens to destroy the greatest nation on the planet and they are doing it on purpose.  They have nothing but contempt for the US as founded and for those of us who love this country. PATRICIA McCARTHY – AMERICAN THINKER
“Then we suffered the rattling election of Barack Obama, whose active membership in a white-, Jewish-, and America-hating church was well known to the electorate.  His close personal relationship with the likes of his adored Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan was no secret.  Obama was open about his goals.  He told us he was out to "fundamentally transform America" and the world.”  ALAN BERGSTEIN

“There is a deep racist and anti-Semitic disease in the leadership of the Democrats. As Senator Cory Booker brings his hatred for the Jewish State to the Senate, he should be asked whether he agrees with his hero, “The only good Zionist is a dead Zionist we must take a lesson from Hitler”. DANIEL GREENFIELD
DeSean Jackson’s Hateful Posts Reveal Antisemitic Strain Within Black Lives Matter

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Black Lives Matter advocate and Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson, is under fire for posting a series of antisemitic posts on social media. However, such antisemitism is widespread among the Black Lives Matter movement.
Jackson began deleting the posts on Tuesday after news broke of his admiring quotes of Adolf Hitler’s attacks on Jews and his posts featuring notorious anti-Semite Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
The Eagles finally spoke about Jackson’s posts and claimed to have “spoken” to the player and told him his actions are “offensive, harmful, and absolutely appalling.” The team has said they will take “appropriate action” in response to the posts.
The Eagles have indulged many BLM causes. After the death of George Floyd for instance, team Owner Jeffrey Lurie posted a long statement about how the team hoped to help “fight hate.” The statement supposedly came after a “powerful meeting” with the whole team at which Jackson was presumably in attendance.
Regardless, Jackson has been a big supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement from its beginning. He even claimed to have designed special cleats to honor George Floyd, the Minneapolis man whose police-involved death spawned dozens of destructive riots across the country.
But the antisemitic content of Jackson’s posts fit in very well with the hatred for Israel and Jews that runs deep throughout the Black Lives Matter movement, of which Jackson has been a big booster.
There are a growing number of examples of Black Lives Matter supporters liberally salting their march chants with anti-Semitic messages. During the July 1 BLM march in the U.S. Capitol, for instance, BLM activists alternated chants of Black Lives Matter with “Palestinian Lives Matter,” and attacks on “Zionism.”
In a video of a D.C march, chants of “Israel Murders Children Too” can be heard.
A Black Lives Matter group in the UK was accused of antisemitism after posting a mural featuring hateful anti-Semitic tropes. One image included obvious Jewish cartoon figures sitting around a Monopoly-like game board festooned with money.
In another case, a manifesto presented by an alliance of Black Lives Matter groups included language accusing Israel of “genocide” against the so-called Palestinians.
Though there’s some dispute over whether the perpetrators were actual members of Black Lives Matter, several synagogues were vandalized in Los Angeles during recent riots of which BLM was a part
After being called on the carpet, Jackson tried to apologize for his now-deleted posts by claiming he was just posting stuff other people sent to him.
“I post a lot of things that are sent to me. I do not have hatred towards anyone. I really didn’t realize what this passage was saying. Hitler has caused terrible pain to Jewish people like the pain African-Americans have suffered. We should be together fighting anti-Semitism and racism. This was a mistake to post this, and I truly apologize for posting it and sorry for any hurt I have caused,” he wrote on Tuesday morning.

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Black Lives Matter: Not Just Communist, But Viciously Anti-Semitic Too
No matter the color of their skin, Jews are going to be labeled “white.”
June 29, 2020 
Clare M. Lopez

By the time violent rioters tore through the heavily Jewish neighborhood of Fairfax, Los Angeles on the night of Saturday May 30, 2020, it was too late. The vicious antisemitic, anti-Israel language of the M4BL and Black Lives Matter’s demands that included accusations against Israel of “apartheid” and “genocide” had been brushed aside. Black Lives Matter (BLM) delegations had traveled to the Middle East to endorse Palestinian terrorists in Gaza, Judea, and Samaria and pose for photo ops with the Palestinian flag. Statements from delegation leaders spoke of “occupation, ethnic cleansing and brutality” that Israel supposedly has perpetrated against the region’s Arab-Muslim population.
Even when city after city across America went up in flames after the May 25, 2020 killing of African-American George Floyd in Minneapolis by a white police officer, with BLM ‘protesters’ assaulting private businesses, their owners, and law enforcement officers alike, smashing store fronts, setting fires, and destroying property, some among America’s Jewish leadership could hardly get their statements of support out fast enough. Jewish American organizations, the Reform Movement, rabbinical leadership figures, progressive and Zionist activists, even the Hasidic Community of Crown Heights, Brooklyn in New York City all practically fell over one another in their haste to endorse the BLM movement.
The Jewish Federation of Santa Barbara was no different. On June 13, 2020, the group – including, among others, the Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara, ADL Santa Barbara Tri-Counties, Santa Barbara Congregation of B’nai B’rith and Santa Barbara Hillel – issued a statement to condemn “racism” and “institutional biases.” The Focus Project, whose online website is remarkably empty, disseminated a set of talking points on June 16, 2020 that appear to date from September 2019. An increasingly popular trope is included among them that distorts the ancient Jewish term ‘Tikkun Olam’ in a way to make it seem like some kind of modern-day social justice program. In fact, ‘Tikkun Olam’ is a Kabbalist term that made its way into Judaism by way of the Aleinu prayer that is specific to Rosh Hashanah. ‘Tikkun Olam’ is not from the Torah (md’oraita) in origin at all – and therefore not one of the 613 obligatory commandments (mitzvot) nor anywhere to be found in the normative rabbinical literature concerning the praxises of Jewish Law (Halacha). Rather, as a kind of companion bit of moral guidance, ‘Tikkun Olam’ urges Jews to repair one’s individual relationship to the Almighty by way of observance of the actual ‘mitzvot’, or obligatory commandments that lead to perfecting personal behavior.
Now, just as ‘perfecting of one’s personal behavior before the Almighty’ has nothing to do with the social justice narrative per se, neither does it have anything to do with supporting a communist/Marxist, pro-Maoist organization, one of whose BLM co-founders’ declaration of the group’s Marxist ideology was featured on Twitter just days ago. Yes, the BLM movement was founded by three African-American women with longtime Marxist backgrounds: Alicia Garza, Opal I. Tometi, and Patrisse M. Cullors. Its original Platform (issued in August 2016, but scrubbed up a bit in its more recent iteration) called for collective ownership of all resources, the breaking up of banks, redistribution of wealth by way of confiscatory taxes on ‘high earners,’ free health care, and free education. Truly, Karl Marx would have blushed.
But back to the question of how BLM rioters came to be rampaging through Jewish neighborhoods of Los Angeles, CA, reportedly shouting “F___Jews”, and spray painting “F___Israel” and “Free Palestine” on the walls of the Congregation Beth Israel and at least four other synagogues. How did Jews come to be collectivized into the enemy “white privilege proletariat” class by these BLM Marxists?
That original BLM Platform also explicitly supports the BDS (Boycott, Divest, and Sanction) movement. Another indicator comes from Cullors (who organized the 30 May pogrom in LA): she reportedly told a New York Times reporter, “Let’s go into the heart of what is symbolically white in Los Angeles, which is Beverly Hills…These people need to hear our pain and our grief. We wanted to bring this to communities who often aren’t dealing with police violence.” No matter the color of their skin, therefore, Jews are going to be labeled “white”—as a pejorative from which it is always going to be impossible to escape. It goes back farther than that, however. By 2015, BLM representatives traveled to the Middle East to make common cause with Palestinians in Gaza, Judea and Samaria. Fast forward to late May 2020, shortly after the death of George Floyd, and the Democratic Socialists of America’s BDS national working group blatantly tried to link that killing to Israel, by claiming that U.S. police forces learned riot control techniques from Israeli police. Then, on June 1, Al-Awda, the Palestinian Right of Return Coalition, published a hideous cartoon at its website showing an Israeli soldier with his knee on the neck of a keffiyeh’ed Palestinian, arm-in-arm with an American police officer with his knee on the neck of a black man. The article it accompanied was entitled “Al-Awda PRRC statement of solidarity for Black lives and Black struggle.”
The BLM’s Marxist agenda is on full display across America today. Exploitation of the insurrectionist riots in which it plays a leading role to demonize Jews and Israel is, too. 


American Jews Must Stand up to Structurally Anti-Semitic BLM
The silence is stunning.
June 30, 2020 
Caroline Glick
The silence of the Jews of America in the face of rising anti-Semitism is stunning.
Over the Shavuot festival on May 30, members of Black Lives Matter (BLM) carried out a pogrom in Fairfax, the oldest Jewish community in Los Angeles, largely populated today by ultra-Orthodox Jews. They vandalized five synagogues and three Jewish schools. Most of the Jewish businesses on Fairfax Avenue were looted.
As Daniel Greenfield reported at Frontpage, Allyson Rowen Taylor, a co-founder of StandWithUs, shared an account of the riots in which they chanted, “F**k the police and kill the Jews.”
Aryeh Rosenfeld, whose store was looted, told The Jerusalem Post that when he came to defend his store there were people driving through the streets screaming “effing Jews” at the Jewish store owners.
Greenfield revealed that the Jews were not incidental victims in a larger night of “anti-racist” rioting by BLM. BLM in Los Angeles is led by outspoken anti-Semites with intimate ties to the virulently anti-Semitic Nation of Islam.
Over the past several years both the BLM-L.A. head Melina Abdullah and her daughter Thandiwe Abdullah, who is the co-founder of the BLM Youth Vanguard, have racked up long records of anti-Semitic rants and fawning praise for Nation of Islam leader Farrakhan. Farrakhan, who has praised Hitler, recently called Jews “termites” and obsessively rails against Judaism and Jews.
As its charter makes clear, BLM itself is structurally anti-Semitic.
BLM’s Charter
While accusing Israel of committing “genocide,” BLM blames Israel for the U.S. war against militant Islam. Its charter states, “The U.S. justifies and advances the global war on terror via its alliance with Israel and is complicit in the genocide taking place against the Palestinian people.”
According to the BLM charter, U.S. military aid to Israel is the foundation of America’s problems. Because of U.S. military aid to Israel, BLM alleges, “Every year billions of dollars are funneled from U.S. taxpayers to hundreds of arms corporations, who then wage lobbying campaigns pushing for even more foreign military aid. The results of this policy are twofold: it not only diverts much needed funding from domestic education and social programs, but it makes U.S. citizens complicit in the abuses committed by the Israeli government.”
In other words, Israel is the root of America’s troubles at home and abroad.
The charter accuses Israel of being an “apartheid state,” and supports the anti-Semitic boycott, sanctions and divestment campaign against Israel. It calls for local, state and federal action against Israel.
Among other things, BLM demands that the U.S. military budget be cut by 50 percent, “which will lead to the closure of over 800 U.S. military bases in the U.S. and around the world, and the elimination of the sale of weaponry to violators of human rights, reduces the use and stockpiling of nuclear weapons and return all troops back from the current theaters of war.”
So for BLM, anti-Semitism isn’t a bug. It is a feature. Hatred of Israel and the Jews is part of its DNA.
This brings us back to the pogrom over Shavuot in Los Angeles.
Two aspects of the Shavuot pogrom expose the increasingly problematic nature of the relationship between the American Jewish community and the American left.
The first is the media’s indifference to anti-Jewish violence. Aside from a few Jewish reporters and Orthodox websites, the Shavuot pogrom was largely ignored. And when it was reported, the deliberately anti-Semitic character of the attacks was either downplayed or ignored altogether.
The media’s refusal to cover the pogrom makes clear that most U.S. media outlets have accepted the limits on freedom of speech dictated by the left. Identity politics now dominate the left in America. BLM controls identity politics.
BLM considers Jews oppressors, not victims. So attacking them is not an act of bigotry. Jews — particularly Israeli Jews, Zionist Jews and Jews who dress in ways that identify them as Jews — are fair game. After all, if Zionism is Nazism and apartheid, then Israelis, Zionist Jews and “Jewy” Jews are racists. The graffiti on Beth El synagogue in Fairfax told the tale: “F**k Israel, Free Palestine.”
Media Complicity
The media’s subservience to the identity politics mob was exposed earlier this month by the forced resignation of The New York Times’ op-ed editor James Bennet and his deputy for the thought crime of publishing an op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton calling for the riots to be quelled — by military force if necessary.
This week, NYT announced their replacements. Charlotte Greensit from the Intercept will be associate op-ed editor and managing editor of the Times.
Greensit is a member of the mob. As such, last month she participated in the left’s newest blood libel that Israel is responsible for the alleged systemic racism of American law enforcement agencies when she tweeted, “Israeli security forces are training American cops despite history of rights abuses.”
The Times, which has long peppered its news stories with anti-Semitic undertones, can be expected to double down on its anti-Jewish slant with Greensit in place.
The second aspect of the Shavuot pogrom that bears consideration is the low-key responses it generated from the Jewish community. Aside from a pro-forma statement by the Anti-Defamation League’s Los Angeles office, the Jewish organization that proclaims itself the go-to place for calling out and fighting anti-Semitism has been mum. Even the modern Orthodox communities in Los Angeles failed to condemn the attack on their ultra-Orthodox neighbors.
Greenfield reported that while the modern Orthodox synagogues quickly removed their Torah scrolls from their prayer halls to protect them from possible looters, the modern Orthodox communities refused to condemn the rioters even as they quickly removed their Torah scrolls from their synagogues to protect them.
Rather than condemn the BLM rioters targeting their community and expressing solidarity with the victims and the police who stopped the riots from spreading, local modern Orthodox leaders told their communities to support BLM bigots and atone for their own imagined racist crimes. Only the ultra-Orthodox cheered the police and thanked them.
Jewish Silence
The silence of the Los Angeles Jewish community and the national Jewish organizations in the face of the assault against it isn’t unique. In New York, Jews have marched against anti-black racism while their community is subjected to repeated anti-Semitic assaults by their black neighbors. Few and far between have been the condemnations of Mayor Bill de Blasio despite his repeated acts of anti-Semitic targeting and discrimination.
Last week de Blasio sent police to padlock a playground in the ultra-Orthodox Williamsburg neighborhood in Brooklyn for coronavirus distancing violations. As the police physically blocked ultra-Orthodox Jewish children from entering the park, non-Jewish children played happily in neighborhood parks throughout Brooklyn and the rest of the city.
De Blasio wasn’t available to padlock the playground himself because he was busy participating in a mass protest with BLM in another section of Brooklyn.
Needless to say, New York Jews not only didn’t riot in response to the city’s bigotry against Jewish children in Williamsburg. When local Jewish leaders broke the locks on the playground in Williamsburg to let the children play, Jews from Park Slope and Manhattan didn’t join them. They were alone.
This is the context in which Rep. Elliot Engel, a 16-term incumbent and the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, was defeated in his primary race for reelection. Engel was long one of the staunchest supporters of U.S.-Israel ties in the Democratic Party and a very liberal Democrat.
Jamaal Bowman, Engel’s victorious primary opponent, supports the BLM charter’s call not to legislate curbs on BDS operations. He supports conditioning U.S. military aid to Israel on Israeli concessions to the Palestinians. Bowman ascribes to BLM’s racist view of Israel, saying that as a (racially oppressed) African American, he identifies with the Palestinians.
Both Bowman and the media that supported his campaign, (particularly Greensit’s colleagues at the Intercept) focused on Engel’s support for Israel. The undertone of their focus was clear — and anti-Semitic. They communicated the message that Engel the Jew is more loyal to Israel than to the voters of his district.
Instead of decrying Bowman and his supporters for their bigotry, many progressive Jews supported Bowman. As Peter Joseph argued in the progressive Jewish newspaper Forward, “Jamaal Bowman’s candidacy asks our community to return to its formerly broad-based concerns and demands that we recognize how urgent it is to address and repair the social, economic, and racial suffering in our nation.
“As this election pits a sixteen-term white Jewish incumbent offering more of the same against a younger Black voice offering a response to this moment in America, Jewish voters should express their aspirations for a better future.”
In other words, Engel was too tribal and of course, too pro-Israel.
Why are American Jews refusing to stand up for themselves? Three explanations present themselves. Either they are afraid to speak up, or they are unaware of the danger, or they are part of the problem.
Like their non-Jewish counterparts, many Jews whose businesses were looted by BLM expressed the support and concern for their attackers. While some of them may actually sympathize with the people who destroyed their income source, no doubt many are too terrified to criticize them. They don’t need any more trouble. And in the current atmosphere of mob rule, where the police charged with defending them are themselves under attack, caution may be the better part of valor.
The ignorant are a product of their environment. Most American Jews are Democrats and most Democrats get their news from the very news organizations that, as members of the identity-politics-dominated left, are not reporting what is happening. Large organizations and liberal synagogues are openly supporting BLM. How are average Jewish Democrats supposed to know what is happening?
This brings us to the Jews that are part of the problem.
This week, a group of far-left Jewish groups published an open letter to the community demanding that American Jews pledge allegiance to a “new covenant” based on seven new principles. The first principle: “Explicit endorsement that Black Lives Matter. Recognizing that Black Lives Matter is a statement that is inherently true and should be accepted without caveat or qualification.”
The other six principles are extrapolations and expansions of the first.
So not only is the community not dealing with BLM’s structural anti-Semitism, radical groups now demand that the rest of the community make supporting these anti-Semites and embracing their anti-Semitic cause the first principle of a “new covenant” for American Jewry.
So far, Hillel International, the Reconstructionist movement and the San Francisco Jewish Federation among others have written letters of support for the “new covenant.”
On Monday, the Wall Street Journal called on members of the political left to wake up and oppose the thought policemen of identity politics. Sadly, it appears that the Jewish victims of those policemen will be the last to hear or heed the call.

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Black Lives Matter is accused of anti-Semitism after posting photo of mural featuring Jewish stereotypes on Facebook advertising protest march in Oxford

·         The mural, 'Freedom of Humanity', was removed from East London in 2012
·         It was after concerns from Jewish groups that it contained 'anti-Semitic tropes'
·         Image was posted by BLM Oxford on Facebook as a cover photo for an event
PUBLISHED: 12:26 EDT, 30 June 2020 | UPDATED: 14:34 EDT, 30 June 2020


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A Black Lives Matter group has been accused of anti-Semitism after posting a controversial mural as a cover photo for a Facebook event.
The mural, 'Freedom of Humanity', was removed from East London in 2012 after concerns from Jewish groups that it contained 'vile anti-Semitic tropes' such as the idea that Jewish people controlled the world.
The street artist, Mear One, has previously denied being anti-Semitic, and said the mural is instead about 'class' and 'privilege.'
The image was posted online by Black Lives Matter Oxford, who are independent of but support Black Lives Matter, as a cover photo on Facebook for an event called 'Freedom Summer BLM', as reported by Cherwell. 
The mural previously caused controversy for Jeremy Corbyn after he questioned why the image was being removed from East London in a Facebook post.  
The former Labour leader had written 'Why? You are in good company' ahead of its removal in 2012, but later admitted the image is 'deeply disturbing'.
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The picture was attached as a cover photo for the event and was spotted by Liberal Democrat councillor Alexadrine Kantor who responded on Twitter
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The street artist, Mear One, has previously denied being anti-Semitic, and said the mural (pictured) is instead about ''class' and 'privilege'

What is the 'Freedom of Humanity' mural?

The mural, 'Freedom of Humanity', was painted in the East End by graffiti artist Kalen Ockerman, known as Mear One, in 2012.
It showed six businessmen and bankers sitting around a Monopoly board counting money. 
The board was placed upon crouched human figures representing the oppressed masses. 
Mr Ockerman denies being anti-Semitic, saying it is about 'class and privilege' and contains bankers 'made up of Jewish and white Anglos'.
The mural was removed by Tower Hamlets council after residents complained about its contents. 
Lutfur Rahman, who was mayor, said: 'The images of the bankers perpetuate anti-Semitic propaganda about conspiratorial Jewish domination of financial and political institutions.'
Jewish groups condemned the image, saying it contained 'vile anti-Semitic tropes' such as the idea that Jewish people controlled the world. 
It was even likened to the anti-Semitic propaganda seen in Germany ahead of the Second World War.
However, it was later said that of the six people depicted in the mural - Lord Rothschild, John D Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, Aleister Crowley, Andrew Carnegie and Paul Warburg - only two are Jewish.
Nick Wright wrote in Morning Star that despite this, the mural 'clearly exaggerates the distinctive features of all six men'.
He added that 'exaggerated depictions of Jews are created, disseminated and understood in a historically defined context that includes a powerful, even dominant, discourse that draws upon the long traditions of anti-semitism embedded in the dominant ideology and expressed, over the centuries, in the dominant visual culture.'
The post by Black Lives Matter Oxford was spotted by Liberal Democrat councillor Alexadrine Kantor, who responded on Twitter.
She said: 'The Oxford #BlackLivesMatter seems to think antisemitism is a [sic] acceptable way to fight racism. How disappointing. You don't fight racism with racism.' 
The group has now taken down the picture from the event and tweeted an apology. 
A statement said: 'We understand that recently an antisemitic image was used on one of our events. This is deeply concerning and the person who used the image is deeply sorry. We absolutely do not condone the image used and have since removed it.
'We will use this time to learn from their mistakes and ensure every person who attends our events feels safe. We stand resolutely against antisemitism, and see our struggles for liberation as interconnected.'
Alexander Kantor, who had called for the picture to be taken down said the 'apologies appreciated and accepted.' 
She added: 'I do not think they have an issue with anti-Semitism, it was a case of not being aware and they have learnt from it and took action on their staff members to ensure this does not happen again.'
'Mistakes can happen and become opportunities to learn and educate ourselves. It is quite rare to receive an honest and meaningful apology, as well as actions to ensure this won't happen again. 
'Apologies appreciated and accepted, but this is not about me […]. I am an ally, I am very glad about their public statement. UK BLM should learn from them.' morning
The mural, 'Freedom of Humanity', was painted in the East End by graffiti artist Kalen Ockerman, known as Mear One, in 2012. 
It showed six businessmen and bankers sitting around a Monopoly board counting money. 
The board was placed upon crouched human figures representing the oppressed masses. 
Mr Ockerman denies being anti-Semitic, saying it is about 'class and privilege' and contains bankers 'made up of Jewish and white Anglos'.
The mural was removed by Tower Hamlets council after residents complained. 
Lutfur Rahman, who was mayor, said: 'The images of the bankers perpetuate anti-Semitic propaganda about conspiratorial Jewish domination of financial and political institutions.'
When contacted by MailOnline the group said: 'Unfortunately yes, an event with the antisemitic mural was posted on our official page without the correct authorisation and was solely done by an individual. 
'Once brought to our attention, we instantly apologised and realised the gravity the mural held and resolutely stand with our Jewish community and the fight against racism in all its forms. 
'We have pulled together a media team that has complete control of all posts and would like to ensure every person who attends our events and protests feels welcome and safe. 
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The group took the picture down and apologised for any hurt caused by posting the mural
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The mural previously caused controversy for Jeremy Corbyn (pictured) after he questioned why the image was being removed from East London in a Facebook post
'In light of this, we will be holding our own internal investigation to find out how this happened in the first place. 
'Once again, our deepest of apologies, this should never have happened and we absolutely see this as a way for us to grow as a movement and protect al those facing oppression.'

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Former Labour leader Mr Corbyn previously caused controversy after he made a Facebook post asking why the mural was being removed from Tower Hamlets in 2012.   
The artist had announced the mural was under threat on social media, to which Mr Corbyn had commented: 'Why? You are in good company. 
'Rockerfeller destroyed Diego Viera's mural because it includes a picture of Lenin.'
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The former Labour leader had written 'Why? You are in good company' ahead of its removal in 2012, but later admitted the image is 'deeply disturbing'
The artist had announced the mural was under threat on social media, to which Mr Corbyn had commented: 'Why? You are in good company'
His comment, which appeared to oppose the mural's destruction, referred to Diego Rivera's 'Man at the Crossroads', which the Rockefeller family covered because it featured the image of Lenin.
Former MP Luciana Berger drew attention to the post in March 2018, writing: 'I asked the Leader's Office for an explanation about this Facebook post first thing this morning. I'm still waiting for a response.'
Mr Corbyn later claimed he had only intended to make a 'general comment' about the removal of art on the grounds of freedom of speech, the BBC reported.
He said: 'I sincerely regret that I did not look more closely at the image I was commenting on, the contents of which are deeply disturbing and anti-Semitic.
'I am opposed to the production of anti-Semitic material of any kind, and the defence of free speech cannot be used as a justification for the promotion of anti-Semitism in any form.'
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·         Black Lives Matter Oxford faces anti-Semitism concerns - Cherwell

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