[justiceseeker93]

About ten or fifteen years ago, the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League did a study on antisemitism in the United States. Based on a system of scoring the answers to a questionnaire, they reported that 34% of American blacks harbored antisemitic attitudes compared to 9% of whites. And while white antisemitism correelated statistically with lower socioeconmic class, black antisemitism did not.

So it seems that in the black community, antisemitic attitudes (often disguised as anti-Israel attitudes) are all too commonly passed down from the elite to the masses.

The author of the posted article makes some valid points, but to imply that modern black antisemitism in the United States first reared its ugly head with the Crown Heights riot of 1991 is not historically accurate. Ironically, it was in Brooklyn, NY as well, back in 1968, that a teachers' strike by a heavily Jewish teachers' union, protesting the firing of several teachers by an overwhelmingly black local school district, precipitated a spate of well-documented, public antisemitic comments by black "leaders."

Perhaps Martin Luther King served a commendable role in suppressing underlying black antisemitism with his pro-Israel attitude, because it began to manifest itself very publicly shortly after his death.

Today, black antisemitism is one of the major reasons why there is a large gap in support for Israel between the two major political parties.

[SJackson]

They've done the survey annually for about 40 years, 2011 is here Ethnic groups are around page 30. Blacks stand at 29% up a bit the last couple years. US born hispanics at 20%, foreign born at 42%. Whites at about 9%. Interestingly the pharmacutical lobby beats the Jewish lobby 24% to 22% in influence, the NRA a distant third at 14%. I agree with you about Crown Heights, that was the beginning of nothing. Al Sharpton incited America's only pogrum based on existing community attitudes, they weren't formed in the four or so hours between his incitement at the child's funeral and the beginning of the attacks. It's been a while since I've looked at old surveys, but my recollection is that the same relationship existed. Some people attribute it to Jewish business' in black neighborhoods from the early 20th century till they were burned out in the 60s. Possible, personally I don't care too much about the reason.