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Article: Barack Obama and the Jews
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- The Jerusalem Report
- Article date:
- February 18, 2008
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Jews and blacks have a long history of both love and hate. It has
not been a pretty story, at least not since the early days of the
civil rights movement, when Jewish civil rights activists Schwerner
and Goodman were murdered in Mississippi and Heschel and other
rabbis marched with Martin Luther King.
After that relations between Jews and blacks deteriorated, with
parts of the black community indulging in nasty anti-Semitic
rhetoric and parts of the Jewish community writing off blacks as
anti-Israel. Some Jews drifted over to the political right where
there is little love for the poor and the uninsured and the
disenfranchised of any race or religion. The rhetoric of a Louis
Farrakhan and ...