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The Schmooze The Jewish Rapper With Wu-Tang Ties — and His Nasty Twitter Beef Over Israel
A Jewish rapper with ties the 1990s hip-hop supergroup the Wu-Tang Clan is ensnared in a grinding, months-long Twitter beef with a popular MC and activist from Brooklyn. Ross Filler, whose stage name is Remedy, has been trading jabs on Twitter with Talib Kweli a well-known rapper with roots in New York’s Afrocentric hip-hop collective…
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News Churches Split Over Black Lives Matter’s Criticism of Israel
African-American churches are split over Black Lives Matter’s stand on Israel, with younger clergymen rallying to the activists’ defense after a group of more conservative pastors rejected Black Lives Matter’s harsh criticism of the Jewish state. The schism, which reflects broader divisions between emerging activists and more conservative leaders, was brought into sharper relief when…
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Community Jewish Organizations: My Judaism is Not Zionism. Stop Representing it That Way.
Since it was created in 2012, I’ve participated in several Black Lives Matter organized protests, marches and rallies. On July 6, immediately after Philando Castile was shot, I became engulfed in the justice movement. I found myself surrounded by some of the most loving, thoughtful and motivated people I’ve ever met. I learned from and…
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Israel News Will Israeli Police Body Cameras Rein In Abuse Against Blacks?
Black Israelis are backing as “historic” a new plan to put body cameras on police in hopes of reining in what they see as a pattern of abuse of ethnic Ethiopians — even though some American Black Lives Matter activists oppose the cameras. After a series of incidents involving police and Ethiopians, including the videotaped…
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Community Why I Still Support Black Lives Matter
Anger is hurt and disappointment. This past week, I, like many others have had a mixed feeling of all of these emotions after reading The Movement for Black Lives platform. The reason people are angry? The movement stated that Israel is committing genocide and apartheid and that we, as tax paying Americans, are to blame….
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Opinion I’m a Jew of Color and Accusing Israel of ‘Genocide’ Disgusts Me
I was initially a proponent of the Black Lives Matter movement. As a person of color, I was startled and frightened when I watched video footage of young people of color being shot in the back, choked to death and beaten. It proved that the lives of people of color, particularly of African Americans, were…
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News Jewish Groups Struggle to Both Criticize and Honor Black Lives Matter
Jewish responses spanned the political spectrum following scathing criticism of Israel by a group affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement. But strikingly, even statements by some centrist groups strove to strike a balance — reflecting their apparent recognition of the broader movement’s impact as an emerging force in American life. The wide range of…
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News National Debate on Racism Spurs Public Spat Among Historic Jewish Groups
An institutional dispute among two storied American Jewish groups — the Anti-Defamation League and the Zionist Organization of America — has come to a head in public. “We’re a civil rights organization. The ZOA is not,” ADL head Jonathan Greenblatt said in an August 5 interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “They’ve been doing this…
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