Anti-Semitism and the Left

An academic paper explores the character and sources of black anti-Semitism

From Kanye West endorsing Hitler to Kyrie Irving inviting followers to watch a documentary about how blacks are the true Jews, anti-Semitism from prominent black figures has been in the news. A recent study explores the phenomenon of black anti-Semitism more broadly, ruling out popular explanations—and excuses—for its frequency.

Black anti-Semitism is nothing new. It has appeared in the works of black intellectuals since at least the early-20th-century black nationalist Marcus Garvey, as Elliot Kaufman observed in Commentary, and defined politics in New York City—the American metropolis where blacks and Jews most often rub shoulders—for generations.

Imagine being afraid to see a doctor. Not because of a deep-seated irrational fear or bad previous experience or because you are worried about a diagnosis … but because of what you’ve heard some doctors at the local medical school say about people like you.

In 2021, Ayelet Kuper, an Israeli-born Canadian physician and scientist, was appointed senior adviser on antisemitism by the Temerty Faculty of Medicine (TFOM) at the University of Toronto. The position was created in response to reports of increasing antisemitism affecting Jewish students, staff and faculty.

The realization that most of the anti-Semitism in Canada starts at the top must be frustrating to some.

Gone are the easy days when our betters could blame “white supremacists” a typically poor and uneducated fringe in Canada.

Nowadays the most dangerous anti-Semites pack the institutional power of our universities and government.

LPC and NDP MP’s hosted a Palestinian solidarity shindig that had no less than 3 anti-Semites in attendance. They blamed it on poor screening or some such nonsense, I bet Laith Marouf would have been welcomed with open arms had he shown his face.

And let’s not fail to mention the role our immigration and multiculturalism policy has played in all this.

Much of Canada’s resurgent anti-Semitism was imported and has taken root aided and abetted by our elite’s cynical exploitation of identity politics.

Diversity is anti-Semitism’s strength. 

This blog made its bones calling out Islamist hate & anti-Semitism.

While lauded by some for those efforts I was labeled a racist Islamophobe by many on the Liberal-Left for the simple act of pointing out the facts. Right Bernie?

Fear the resurgence but also the silent voices.

Teach your children well much?

The Jewish presence in the civil right movements has been erased from black history. The Jews have erased their own history.

Black Hebrew Israelites are getting the attention that they didn’t when they spent decades screaming antisemitic and racist slurs in urban centers, killed four people in two separate attacks in New York and New Jersey (one that took place on Chanukah) and provoked the Covington Catholic incident.

That last one led to the New York Times defending the racist hate group as “sidewalk ministers” who practice “tough love” in “blunt and sometimes offensive language.” Examples of that include, “The Holocaust is a damn joke! Heil Hitler!” and “The messiah, who is a black man, is going to kill you”.