BLM is based on hatred, greed, and most of all ENVY.
The hatred against Jews, and Israelis in particular, is due to the fact they pulled themselves up (with notable help from others and probably G-d) while blacks have fallen and failed, starting really in the 1950s.
“the group called for a divestment from the Jewish state as it is allegedly “complicit in the genocide against the Palestinian people.” “
I don’t think the folks in charge at BLM ever read a history book in their lives.
They seem to be an uneducated group of whiners.
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The BLM “platform” really demonstrates how twisted the whole thing is. Instead of just trying to address the already highly contested and complicated problem of police abuses, they can’t stop themselves from throwing in every other unrelated issue but the kitchen sink including the Israel-Palestine conflict, all sorts of weird identity causes, and of course a generalized call for overthrowing capitalism.
Hey Chloe; The BLM is anything but a “civil rights movement”. It is more akin to the murderous Black Panther Party’s “extortion/robbery/police killing movement” without practicing the two latter items (but some of their supporters do).
Stop giving the BLM a “legitimacy” that do not deserve. They are, as usual, a “self-appointed” spokesgroup for American blacks who never elected them. They practice threats and extortion, putting out long unintelligible Marxist platforms and black extremist tomes on “reparations”.
Since “Tablet” is mainly a Jewish media organ (and I’m Jewish), keep it sharp and don’t fall for the Marxist/progressive slant of the BLM, BDS, and Marxist support groups behind the scenes.
The old adage of “Know your enemy” is appropriate here. THe Left (be it white or black) and its revived alliance allies of Islamic extremism, are the masters of propaganda, disinformation (BLM), misinformation (the MS Media), and just plain lying.
For those of us who have been in the business of exposing extremists (in my case since 1969), as journalists (and as an undercover operative), my warning to the new kids on the Jewish journalism block is, don’t believe the Left’s “hype, press releases, speeches, and tears”. There isn’t much of the truth in any of it except for the covert Marxist lines and goals of Saul Alinsky, Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Vann Jones, Prof. Charles Ogletree, and of our fearless Comrade Leader, Barack Obama.
Hello, they aren’t going back to the motherland willfully, they will carve it out right here in the US of A.
Or try to...
Move to Sierra Leone. A black created paradise.
Chloe. In a second reading of your article, I see that you did a good job of looking at BLM from several perspectives, but there was a need for looking at their affiliates and sucker-fish friends (those who join in somebody else’s projects to get publicity for their own causes).
Photos produced by FreeRepublic readers and from related on-site articles show the signs and flags of these affiliated and suckers. Exposing who they are and what they are trying to do is also important because they give more “heff” to the BLM movement by providing bodies and signs (for TV consumption).
Knowing who is in this new/old black extremist movement is very important because once you understand where they came from (BPP, RAM, RNA, N’COBRA, ROAR, and Marxist groups), you will understand who they are, what they want, and what tactics they will use.
In the end, the BLM is still a black extremist/extortionist organization that will never be denounced by the once friendly to Jews organizations such as the NAACP (went Left and never came back when Julian Bond and Comrade Benjamin Chavis took it over), the Black Congressional Congress (Marxist led by John Conyers, Barbara Lee and Keith Ellison), and the Urban League (of the late gentleman, Whitney Young).
Today black student groups on campuses are as much hate-whitey organizations as they are anti-Jewish (under the guise of anti-Zionist). They openly align with Palestinian extremist groups, aided and abetted by campus and off campus Marxist organizations (NLG, CCR, CRP, VVAW, ISO, Spartacist League, RNA, and the New SDS).
If you look at the protests over the Freddy Gray case in Baltimore, you can see where the BLM coopted the issue of “justice” and made the Maryland DA for Baltimore into one of their open supporters, Marilyn Mosby.
This is what we are up against and it is more pervasive and deeper than most know. The shouting down of Jewish and non-Jewish Pro-Israel speakers on campus, with no real administration response to the New Black Fascists and their white and Moslem/Arab radical friends, is strongly similar to the rise of Nazi fascism and anti-Semitism in 1930’s Germany.
This is what we face so we must not let the liberals put a “happy face” on a black fascist movement. We’ve seen how that came out in Germany.
BLM is not a "civil rights movement" and it wasn't formed "to confront systemic prejudice against black Americans." It was formed by homosexuals to advance the Hegelian/Marxist/Gramscian dialectic.
Isn't it amazing how some "Zionists" who are so embarrassed by white Fundamentalist Protestant support will contort themselves into pretzels to tout/solicit support from "politically correct" groups? Disgusting.
The author is obviously a purely secular nationalist for whom 'Eretz Yisra'el has absolutely no cosmic significance whatsoever. It is purely a secular refuge, and the Jews are to him no different from any other minority group.
And btw--Marcus Garvey was a right winger who was despised by the NAACP and the Communists. Unfortunately, he later became anti-Semitic and pro-Hitler.