Monday, August 28, 2023

WHEN WILL AMERICA FINALLY COME TO OUR COLLECTIVE SENSES ABOUT BLACK RACISM AND VIOLENCE??? - Racist Mayor: Chicago’s Brandon Johnson Chicago’s new mayor ran on racism. Now he’s delivering racism.

 This is no exaggeration.  In a speech late last year, Brittney Cooper, a black associate professor at Rutgers University, spewed so much hate against "white people," to the point of concluding, "We got to take these MFers out!"  (Needless to say, she still teaches at Rutgers.)


Racist Mayor: Chicago’s Brandon Johnson

Chicago’s new mayor ran on racism. Now he’s delivering racism.

[Editor’s note: Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s masterpiece contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]

“This is about black labor versus white wealth. That’s what this battle is about,” Brandon Johnson framed the mayoral election as a race war at a debate with his opponent.

Johnson, a top official at Chicago’s radical teachers’ union, had plenty of money. As a Cook County Commissioner, Johnson was already earning $100,000 a yearanother $100,000 from the Chicago Teachers Union, plus $25,000 for his work as a lobbyist. He’s also eligible for a $1.1 million pension for teaching for only four years. It wasn’t about wealth, it was about race.

Behind in the polls due to his pro-crime stance, Johnson made the campaign into a series of racist taunts, smears and accusations. Johnson charged his opponent with being “dismissive of a black man” and claimed that critics of his pro-crime policies were engaging in “yet another attack on a black man as an elected leader”. And racism paid off for Johnson.

While Paul Vallas, a sensible and far more qualified moderate, won the white and Latino vote, Johnson, a leftist racist bent on destroying whatever was left of Chicago, won the black vote.

Many Chicago pastors, seeing the bloody violence in the streets, had endorsed Vallas in the hope that he would stop the killing, but Al Sharpton and other racist radicals promoted Johnson. As did the CTU which had spent generations exploiting children and robbing taxpayers to make officials like Johnson so powerful and wealthy. Johnson was the CTU’s victory over Chicago.

Whenever Johnson was asked any hard questions, he pivoted right back to black supremacism.

“When black men tell you the truth, believe us,” he insisted, denying the impact of his economic policies. To defend the school closures that devastated a generation of children, Johnson claimed that,  “A lot of black people and brown people died. We wanted to make sure that black and brown people in particular did not continue to die.” In that, as in so much else, he failed.

After crawling into office on gutter racism, Johnson stayed there. He ran his campaign on a promise to go easy on criminals because they were victims of racism and he delivered.

When mobs of rioters looted stores, smashed cars and assaulted people, Mayor Johnson complained that harsh language was being used toward “children”. He claimed that “it is not constructive to demonize youth who have otherwise been starved of opportunities in their own communities”. More recently he described the armed rioters as taking part in “large gatherings”.

When the “children” and “youth” took to stealing cars, including armed carjacking, Johnson responded by suing car companies whom his administration blamed for making cars too easy for his criminal constituents to steal.

The racist mayor continued to justify the criminal behavior by suggesting that it was a black thing. “I’ve been a public school teacher, and sometimes you have a number of students who want to find spaces where they can cut up,” Johnson, who had only worked for four years as a social studies teacher, claimed.  “You have to Google that. It’s like black terminology.”

‘Cut up’ is actually English slang. Variations of it go as far back as Shakespeare and Dickens. If Johnson were actually qualified to teach anything, use Google or be any more than a racist union hack, he would know that. But it’s consistent with the racist mayor using race as a sword and shield, an attack and defense, a suggestion that anything people object to about him or the consequences of his pro-crime policies is a ‘black thing’ that they couldn’t understand.

However you translate it, Chicago is a disaster. Crime is up 39% as people are being cut up, cut down, shot and beaten by opportunity-starved youths, and a potential budget shortfall is approaching $1 billion. 42% of the city’s budget is going to pensions and interest on debt.

Much of that comes from Johnson’s own notoriously greedy Chicago Teachers Union. After their 2019 strike, senior teachers are expected to make six figures this year. CTU members will score $84,313 after five years which rises to almost $100,000 after ten years on the job of not teaching kids. CTU is not only destroying children: it’s also destroying the future of the city.

CTU abused its political power to rob the pensions of its own members with a ‘pension holiday’ and then imposed a special property tax to subsidize its pensions without having to go through the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law. Chicago property taxes have doubled in a decade, and CTU’s pensions are still more underfunded than ever to the tune of $13 billion.

Johnson ran for office on the CTU agenda of raising property taxes even more with $400 million in real estate taxes that he misleadingly described as a “mansion tax” on buildings over $1 million which in reality would have raised rents in most apartment buildings. But how do you tax people who aren’t there anymore? 80,000 people left Chicago in two years. By the time Johnson finishes running it into the ground, there’ll be even less separating Chicago from Detroit.

“I’ve been all over the city of Chicago. And everywhere I go, people are feeling the excitement, the energy has shifted in the city,” Johnson claimed. The energy is there. It’s the energy of Chicago topping the country in the number of carjackings. Those too are probably the fault of car companies rather than the “deprived” “youth” robbing elderly women at gunpoint.

During Brandon Johnson’s first three months in office, 41 more people were murdered and car thefts rose by 4,341. Johnson’s campaign pro-crime pledges to shut down a database of gang members and other law enforcement tools will make matters even worse. And, most importantly, Johnson’s goal for the police is to have their “demographic make-up” reflect the “demographics of the community”. When it comes to policies, for Johnson, race always trumps everything else.

Chicago has gone from one radical, incompetent and off-putting racist mayor to another. Brandon Johnson is even worse than Lori Lightfoot, but both of them graduated from the same school of running their campaigns and their administrations around racist dog whistles.

Chicago voters, those of them who were alive and conscious, knew what they were getting.

Brandon Johnson’s plan to fix education was to claim that standardized tests had their “roots in eugenics to prove the inferiority of black people.” His plan to fix crime was to denounce policing as a tool of “white supremacy” and blamed the BLM race riots on “a failed racist system.”

The failed racist system was that of his black predecessor. Now it’s his failed racist system.

Johnson ran on racism and, unlike a lot of politicians, he’s delivering on what he promised.

Other Parts of the Series:

Part I: Chicago’s Lori Lightfoot.

Part 2: LA’s Eric Garcetti.

Part 3: DC’s Muriel Bowser.

Part 4: KC’s Quinton Lucas.

Part 5: SF’s London Breed.

Part 6: Philly’s Jim Kenney.

Part 7: St. Louis’ Tishaura Jones.

Part 9: Seattle’s Jenny Durkan.

Part 10: Minneapolis’s Jacob Frey.

Part 11: Charlottesville’s Nikuyah Walker.

Part 12: Portland’s Ted Wheeler.

Part 13: Atlanta’s Keisha Lance Bottoms.

Part 14: NYC’s Bill de Blasio.

Part 15: Enfield’s Mondale Robinson

Part 16: Boston’s Michelle Wu

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Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.

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Brandon Johnson’s Chicago: At Least 17 Shot Friday into Mid-Afternoon Saturday

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - MAY 15: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson speaks to guests after taking the oath of office on May 15, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois. Johnson, a former school teacher and union organizer, replaces outgoing Mayor Lori Lightfoot. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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At least 17 people were shot, one of them fatally, Friday into mid-afternoon Saturday in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago.

ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Timereported the one shooting fatality occurred around 4 a.m. “in the 2500 block of West Monroe Street.” Police responded to calls about the shooting and found a man who had been shot “in the chin and ankle.”

He was transported to a hospital where he later died.

Breitbart News noted nearly 40 were shot last weekend in Chicago, seven of them fatally, and at least 23 were shot in Chicago during the weekend prior.

The Sun-Times pointed out that 392 people were killed in Chicago January 1, 2023, through August 25, 2023.

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010, a speaker at the 2023 Western Conservative Summit, and he holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.

 

AMERICA'S BLACKS ARE THE MOST RACIST AND VIOLENT SUBCULTURE IN THE WORLD!

Are 'White People Committed to Being Villains'?

By Raymond Ibrahim

As discussed elsewhere, historical relations between Islam and the West have been utterly distorted in order to present the aggressors as victims and the victims as aggressors.

In this article, we look at a similar but even more urgent topic: how history in general has been intentionally distorted in a way that makes segments of the nonwhite population hate, despise, and even want to murder whites.

This is no exaggeration.  In a speech late last year, Brittney Cooper, a black associate professor at Rutgers University, spewed so much hate against "white people," to the point of concluding, "We got to take these MFers out!"  (Needless to say, she still teaches at Rutgers.)

At one point during her racist rant, Cooper said:

I think white people are committed to being villains, in the aggregate. ... What I think that white people viscerally fear, it's not that white people don't know what they've done — they know.  They fear that there is no other way to be human but the way in which they are human.  So you know, you talk to white people, and whenever you want to have a reckoning by them they say stuff like, you know, "It's just human nature.  If y'all had all of this power y'all would have done the same thing," right?

Right, indeed.  Some fifteen years ago, I wrote an article making this same point: if Europeans were abusive to nonwhites, that is not because they were intrinsically bad (a racist point, incidentally), but simply because they were able to.  And that's the virtual bottom line of all history: capability.

Europeans did not defeat and uproot American Indians, enslave Africans, and colonize the rest because whites lived according to some unprecedented bellicose creed innate to whites and alien to nonwhites.  Quite the contrary: they did so because they — as opposed to natives, blacks, etc. — were able to do so.  That is the fundamental difference.

Had pre-Columbian Native Americans developed galleys for transoceanic travel, or advanced firearms, or compasses, or organized military structures and stratagems, and had they arrived on the shores of Europe at its weakest point in history — what would they have done?  Would they have pillaged and plundered, conquered and subjugated, or would they have looked at the inferior pale savages and "respected" them in the name of "diversity," leaving them wholly unmolested?

What if sub-Saharan blacks were technologically or militarily more advanced than their northern neighbors in Europe during the premodern era, and therefore could easily have subjugated and enslaved them?  Would they have done so, or would they have left them in peace in the name of "multiculturalism"?

In her rant, Cooper acknowledges — but rejects — these rhetorical questions:

[I]t's like, no, that's what white humans did, white human beings thought there's a world here and we [whites] own it. Prior to them, black and brown people have been sailing across oceans, interacting with each other for centuries without total subjugation, domination and colonialism, right?

Not only is this "professor's" ignorance profoundly startling; it is the source of her desire to see whites liquidated.  After all, in her estimation, white people are intrinsically evil.  It's in their blood.

Back in the real world, all peoples — white, black, brown, yellow, red — warred on the "other" and, when capable — key word — went on the offensive in search of conquest and plunder.  Depending exclusively on their capabilities — bows and arrows (e.g., Africans) or guns and cannons (e.g., Europeans) — their efforts resulted in tribal or international hegemony.  As Michael Graham writes,

[w]hen thinking of pre-Columbian America, forget what you've seen in the Disney movies [reference to the 1995 Pocahontas]. Think "slavery, cannibalism and mass human sacrifice." From the Aztecs to the Iroquois, that was life among the indigenous peoples before Columbus arrived.  For all the talk from the angry and indigenous about European slavery, it turns out that pre-Columbian America was virtually one huge slave camp.

It's the same with Africans: they continuously warred on, slaughtered, and enslaved one another for eons before whites ever came to sub-Saharan Africa.  Moreover, as Michael Omolewa, a Nigerian diplomat, once explained,

the bulk of the supply [of African slaves sold to Europeans] came from the Nigerians. These Nigerian middlemen moved to the interior where they captured other Nigerians who belonged to other communities. The middlemen also purchased many of the slaves from the people in the interior . ... Many Nigerian middlemen began to depend totally on the slave trade and neglected every other business and occupation. The result was that when the trade was abolished [by England in 1807] these Nigerians began to protest. As years went by and the trade collapsed such Nigerians lost their sources of income and became impoverished.

These are not just historical observations.  Despite Western efforts to abolish slavery, there are currently more than 50 million slaves — all of them in the non-Western world.  To quote from one report,

[a]s the world marks 400 years since the first recorded African slaves arrived in North America, slavery remains a modern-day scourge. ... Africa has the highest prevalence of slavery, with more than seven victims for every 1,000 people.

None of this seems to matter to Ms. Cooper.  For this "professor," the scourge of slavery — indeed, any and every social ill — begins and ends with white, and therefore inherently evil, people.  Hence the need to "take these MFers out!"

Nor is she alone.  Many people in the West, above and beyond the woke crowd, subscribe to this version of history that juxtaposes evil, oppressive, conquering whites with noble, peaceful, and egalitarian nonwhites — a carefully manufactured lie that feeds a deep and abiding hatred for whites, including, and as a testament to its pervasive influence, among whites themselves.  

Raymond Ibrahim, author of Defenders of the West and Sword and Scimitar, is the Distinguished Senior Shillman Fellow at the Gatestone Institute and the Judith Rosen Friedman Fellow at the Middle East Forum.

 

Image: stevepb via PixabayPixabay license.

 

All of this could help explain why NAACP’s board chairman Leon Russell lives in Tampa Bay, and why at least five of his colleagues have traveled to Florida for vacation since DeSantis was first elected in 2018.

The NAACP's "travel advisory" does not cite any

figures, which show that black Floridians enjoy

lower unemployment, higher median incomes, and

lower rates of both hate crimes and police killings

than their counterparts in other states.

                                     JOSPEH SIMONSON

 

The NAACP Says Florida Isn't Safe for Black People. Data Tell a Different Story.

NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images).

Joseph Simonson

May 23, 2023

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People last week cautioned black Americans to stay out of Florida, claiming that the state’s "openly hostile" policies put them at risk. But a Washington Free Beacon review found that minorities are far more likely to be the victims of hate crimes in liberal states like California.

The NAACP's "travel advisory" does not cite any

figures, which show that black Floridians enjoy

lower unemployment, higher median incomes, and

lower rates of both hate crimes and police killings

than their counterparts in other states. Instead, the

group cites Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's (R.)

"aggressive attempts to erase Black history and to

restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in

Florida schools," particularly a bill that prevents

public schools from offering AP African American

Studies courses.

Left-wing activist groups have warned minorities against traveling to the Sunshine State in response to DeSantis’s educational reforms. The NAACP’s travel advisory comes after the League of United Latin American Citizens and the gay rights group Equality Florida issued similar warnings, the New York Times reported.

These warnings paint a much grimmer picture than

the reality of life in Florida. Black unemployment

in the state stood at 3.8 percent by the end of 2022,

far lower than the national average of 6.1 percent,

or California’s of 7.5 percent. Florida is second in

the country for the most minority-owned

businesses, which may explain why median black

family income is higher there than the national

average or blue states such as Illinois.

Those economic facts may also explain why Florida has one of the largest black populations in the country—and why it has grown from 1.9 million to 3.2 million in the last 30 years. That's much different from the troubling picture the NAACP paints in its advisory, which claims "Florida is openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals."

The NAACP warns black travelers to "be aware of the open hostility towards African Americans and people of color" in Florida. But blacks have enjoyed a higher degree of safety there than elsewhere. Florida law enforcement recorded 127 hate crimes in 2020, compared with 1,537 in California and 466 in New York.

Three years into DeSantis’s first term as governor, the state saw a significantly lower amount of hate crimes than California. The reported hate crime rate in Florida was 0.6 per 100,000 people, according to the FBI, and 3.1 per 100,000 people in California.

There is also evidence that blacks are far less likely to be killed by police in Florida than California or Washington, D.C. A 2019 study published in science journal The Lancet concluded that the black mortality rate due to police violence was lower than California, Oregon, Colorado, Delaware, the District of Columbia, and others.

DeSantis's two successful gubernatorial campaigns

can be in part attributed to his success with black

voters. In both 2018 and 2022, DeSantis saw

double-digit support from the black community, far

higher than typical for a Republican candidate.

All of this could help explain why NAACP’s board chairman Leon Russell lives in Tampa Bay, and why at least five of his colleagues have traveled to Florida for vacation since DeSantis was first elected in 2018.

Neither Russell nor the NAACP responded to a request for comment

 


Publicly Funded University Appoints Antisemitic Farrakhan Supporter as Ethnic Studies Dean

Daniel Greenfield

California's Jewish communities warned that the push for ethnic studies was just educational antisemitism. And, indeed, the ethnic studies movement is full of Farrakhan allies, from BLM's Melinda Abdullah to the dean of the College of Ethnic Studies at California State University.

Her name is Julianne Malveaux. She enjoys long walks on the beach and hating everyone. Especially Jews.

The incoming dean of the newly created College of Ethnic Studies at California State University, Los Angeles is an ally of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and has publicly expressed hope that Clarence Thomas dies an early death.

During a public television appearance in 1994, Malveaux said of Justice Clarence Thomas: “I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early, like many black men do, of heart disease.”

BLOG EDITOR: OBAMA AND ERIC HOLDER CRONY MUSLIM FARRAKHAN IS ONE OF THE MOST RACIST, ANTI-SEMITIC AND HOMOPHOBIC HATE MONGERS OPERATING TODAY. BUT WHERE DOES HE GET HIS LOOT??? 

In a 2018 column for the Birmingham Times, she wrote, “White people’s hatred for Minister Farrakhan is irrational and, might I say, racist.”

A 2018 article in the Nation of Islam’s newspaper, the Final Call, quoted Malveaux as saying, “until these Jewish people who are running around asking Black people to buck dance, until they ask White people to buck dance, I ain’t having it! I’m just not having it!” The article also quoted her as saying, “Min. Farrakhan has never picked up a gun and shot anybody. These people need to just back off.”

Taxpayers are responsible for about half of CSU's budget.

The CSU’s operating budget has two main funding sources: the state General ​​Fund and student tuition and fees. State funding now covers slightly more than half of the CSU’s operating costs, with tuition and fees making up for the remainder. 

While some academics get canceled over the slightest offense, Julianne Malveaux gets to serve as dean despite a long history of supporting a racist and anti-semitic hate group.

The president of Cal State LA, William A. Covino, in a press release announcing the appointment, said, “This is a significant appointment for the college, but also for the city and the nation.”  The release paraphrases him as saying “Malveaux’s long and accomplished record in academia and her history of advocacy will serve her well in her new role as dean of the college.”

This is the racist "advocacy" that Democrats and their academic system support.

Incoming Cal State Dean Defended Farrakhan, Attacked Jewish Critics

Julianne Malveaux: 'White people's hatred for Minister Farrakhan is irrational' and 'racist'

Philip Caldwell 

An incoming dean at California State University Los Angeles is a staunch defender of the anti-Semitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and has denounced the minister's Jewish critics.

Julianne Malveaux, whom Cal State L.A. appointed to lead its newly established College of Ethnic Studies, wrote in 2018 that "white people's hatred for Minister Farrakhan is irrational and … racist" after the Women's March movement faced calls to denounce its ties to Farrakhan, who has compared Jews to termites.

In a series of past remarks uncovered by school reform journal Education Next this week, Malveaux also lashed out against Jewish critics of the Nation of Islam leader. Malveaux condemned a congressional effort to denounce Farrakhan in 2018, framing the push to condemn the minister as being led by Jews asking black people to "buck dance," according to the Nation of Islam's official newspaper, the Final Call.

"We have tens of thousands if not millions of people, black people, in these United States who are members of the Nation of Islam. They are productive people in our community, who many of us interact with, work with, on a daily basis," the Final Call quoted Malveaux as saying. "They are not racist people. They are not anti-Semitic. They are black people. So, until these Jewish people who are running around asking black people to buck dance, until they ask white people to buck dance, I ain't having it! I'm just not having it!"

Malveaux reportedly appeared at a 2005 event hosted by Farrakhan, where she criticized attacks on the Nation of Islam leader's rhetoric.

Farrakhan has a history of making anti-Semitic remarks. The Nation of Islam leader has attributed "pedophilia and sexual perversion" in Hollywood to "Jewish influence," said that "powerful Jews are my enemy," and accused Jews of being responsible for the slave trade in the United States. Farrakhan in 2018 tweeted, "I'm not an anti-Semite. I'm anti-Termite."

Malveaux, a columnist and former president of Bennett College, is also a staunch critic of Israel. During the country's latest conflict with the terrorist group Hamas last month, Malveaux wrote that the Jewish state "has a lock on U.S. foreign policy" and that "too many Jewish people say that criticism of Israel makes you anti-Semitic."

In a 1994 appearance on PBS, Malveaux said she hoped for the death of Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas. "I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease," she said.

Malveaux is set to take the helm of the College of Ethnic Studies on July 1, according to Cal State L.A.

Chelsea Clinton Urges Democrats to Condemn Farrakhan for Comparing Jews to Termites

(Updated)

Chelsea Clinton / Getty ImagesCameron Cawthorne • October 17, 2018 3:30 pm

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Chelsea Clinton on Wednesday called on Democrats to condemn Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan for comparing Jews to termites and calling his Jewish critics "stupid."

Farrakhan, who has a long history of making anti-Semitic comments, thanked his Jewish dissenters for spreading his name all over the world. He proceeded with a diatribe about his "stupid" Jewish critics.

"To members of the Jewish community that don’t like me, thank you very much, for putting my name all over the planet because of your fear of what we represent," Farrakhan said. "I can go anywhere in the world and they’ve heard of Farrakhan. Thank you very much."

He went on to say that he wasn't mad at the Jewish community because he believes that they are "so stupid" and that "every knock is a boost."

"They call me an anti-Semite. Stop it. I’m anti-Termite. I don’t know nothing about hating somebody because of their religious preference," Farrakhan continued.

Clinton castigated Farrakhan on Twitter for his "dangerous" rhetoric, saying it made her "skin crawl." She then signaled to Democrats that they should find Farrakhan's comments as "equally unacceptable" as President Donald Trump's comment about immigrants "infesting our country."

 

Twitter responded to the backlash Farrakhan's tweet received by saying it was not in violation of the company's current policies. "Just in from a @Twitter spokesperson: Louis Farrakhan's tweet comparing Jews to termites is not in violation of the company's policies. The policy on dehumanizing language has not yet been implemented," BuzzFeed News reporter Joe Bernstein tweeted.

https://twitter.com/Bernstein/status/1052636257531154434

While Clinton wrote a strong condemnation of Farrakhan, it is unclear what her dad thinks of him. Former President Bill Clinton shared a stage with Farrakhan last month at Aretha Franklin's funeral celebration.

Farrakhan has been a lightning rod of controversy for several people in the Democratic Party who have associated with the minister, including the organizers of the Women's March, a resistance group against Trump, and Democratic National Committee deputy chairman Keith Ellison. Women's March leaders Tamika Mallory and Linda Sarsour have a history of criticizing Israel and being closely connected to Farrakhan.

Mallory received backlash back in March for attending Farrakhan's annual Saviours' Day address, an event where the Nation of Islam leader attacked "that Satanic Jew," called Jews "the mother and father of apartheid," and proclaimed that "when you want something in this world, the Jew holds the door." By attending the event, a regional Planned Parenthood organization serving the Northwest United States and Hawaii announced in March 2018 it was parting ways with her. Mallory had been scheduled as the keynote speaker for the group's April luncheon. Mallory previously referred to the Nation of Islam leader as "honorable" and said she was "super ready for [his] message!" before an event in 2016, according to CNN.

Like Mallory, Sarsour has a history of being anti-Israel, including at a speech in 2015 at a Nation of Islam event. She has also discounted anti-Semitism, saying that "while anti-Semitism is something that impacts Jewish Americans, it’s different than anti-black racism or Islamophobia because it’s not systemic."

Ellison has repeatedly claimed his relationship with Farrakhan ended in 2006, but the Washington Post gave him Four Pinocchios for the claim.

 

In Corporate America and Academia, Silence Speaks Volumes

American elites are tight-lipped on an upsurge in anti-Semitism

A Jewish solidarity march in Jan. 2020 / Getty ImagesWashington Free Beacon Editors

As protests and riots consumed the country last summer in the wake of George Floyd's death, the nation's top corporate leaders weighed in almost in unison to condemn Floyd's murder and voice solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.

Ninety percent of Fortune 100 companies issued such statements, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis. Amazon decried "the inequitable and brutal treatment of Black people in our country"; Apple called for recognition of "the fear, hurt, and outrage" in the black community; and Google parent company Alphabet vowed to do "the harder work" of rectifying structural inequities.

The nation's top universities followed suit. Every one, from top-ranked Princeton to 20th-ranked UCLA, recommitted itself to addressing what they all described in one formulation or another as the structural and enduring racism in American society. They were similarly responsive in March to an epidemic of violence targeting Asian Americans—every school responded publicly to the attacks.

But in corporate America and academia alike, the solidarity did not extend to the American Jewish community when it experienced a more recent surge of anti-Semitic attacks and violence in the wake of renewed Middle East violence. The sudden silence of corporate America is a striking contrast to the flood of corporate speech on hot-button political issues over the last year.

Among the Fortune 100, it is easier to count the companies that spoke up than those that stayed silent: Just two, Amerisource Bergen and Pfizer, issued statements about the rash of anti-Semitic violence that extended from New York City to Los Angeles in the wake of last month's conflagration between Israel and Hamas. Google acknowledged an "alarming increase in anti-Semitic attacks" after sheepishly reassigning a top member of its diversity team, Kamau Bobb, whose anti-Semitic writings the Free Beacon exposed.

Just 6 of the top 20 institutions of higher education issued statements about the attacks. Of those that did, some, like Columbia, offered a variation of the "All Lives Matter" trope, condemning  "harassment … of people who are Jewish or Palestinian or anyone else." Others, like Yale University, saw faculty members voice support for "the Palestinian struggle as an indigenous liberation movement confronting a settler colonial state" while making no mention of anti-Semitism.

The anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism of the intersectional left have been largely ignored by a cultural and business elite eager to embrace the social justice movement—or inoculate itself from the movement's attacks.

But for Jews, the institutionalizing of this new anti-Semitism at schools and businesses across the country—complete with a bureaucracy of diversity officers like Google's house anti-Semite to enforce it—is a threat that cannot be ignored.

 

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