Blacks and Jews (Complete Series)

About this episode

This episode presents a six-part essay series exploring the historical relationship between Black and Jewish Americans and the impact of political conflicts on this alliance.

Hi everybody. This is the audio version of a six-part essay series called Blacks and Jews. I wrote it for my Substack a while back, so if it sounds like I’m reading instead of speaking naturally, it’s because in this case I am. I decided to release this to everyone on the main feed because, in light of the recent uproar and brewing Democratic Party civil war over the Israel-Palestine conflict, it’s suddenly become quite timely. Black and Jewish Americans were uniquely united until the late 1960s, when the civil rights movement was subsumed by a Third Worldist outlook that caused the Black Panthers and other activists to turn on the State of Israel, and then on American Jews. It precipitated a split in the so-called Black-Jewish alliance which had been the backbone of the civil rights movement during its glory years, and led to some of the worst outbursts of public antisemitism in American history. The intra-left wing conflict over the current conflict in Gaza is not a new story, and in fact is an example of scabs being torn off old wounds that had barely begun to heal. I wrote this series as I was preparing the most recent episode of Whose America, Inner City Blues, so those of…

People in this episode

Host: Darryl Cooper

Topics covered

• Black-Jewish relations
• civil rights movement
• antisemitism
• Israel-Palestine conflict
• historical alliances
• political conflict

Keywords

• Blacks and Jews
• civil rights
• antisemitism
• Black Panthers
• Israel
• Palestine
• Gaza
• political conflict

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Black Panthers, Substack

Places: Israel, Palestine, America, Gaza

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