(Jewish Group) Memo To Shaun King From A Black Jew: Stop Dividing Our Communities

[Behind the Aegis]

(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)

Hey, Shaun.

I know you’re having a problem with Jews right now, or “drowning in tweets from Jewish folk” as you put it in a tweet this week.

It wasn’t the first time. On March 2, you tweeted a defense of Tamika Mallory, saying that calling her anti-Semitic was “not just a lie, it’s lazy.” At the time, many in the Jewish community were critiquing her for associating with and defending the anti-Semitic Louis Farrakhan. “How could anyone love a bigot like Farrakhan? Because how you see him and how other people see him is as different as night and day,” you tweeted in defense of the Nation of Islam leader 8 days later.

In subsequent months, progressive Jews and Jews of Color, including Carly Pildis, Sandra Lawson, Rabbi Yael Ridberg and Elad Nehorai, claimed that you had blocked them on Twitter for calling you out, though you have since promised that you “would never do this” and that the blocking was an accident. You then wrote a long Facebook post in which you claimed,“Never in my life have I spoken or even thought a bigoted word against Jewish people.”

As a Black Jew, I want to explain to you why your words are so problematic, for both of our communities.

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Good for her! There are definite attempts to divide our communities (the GLBT as well) from outside sources, but it sure as fuck doesn't help when "the call is coming from inside the house"!