The great betrayal: How radical progressives are dynamiting the Black-Jewish alliance

For astir a century, the confederation betwixt the Black and Jewish communities was the bedrock of America’s motivation halfway — a "covenant" forged successful the fires of the Civil Rights Movement and cemented with shared humor connected the roads of the Jim Crow South. But today, that historical enslaved is being systematically dynamited by a caller question of extremist progressives who similar toxic tropes and "us-versus-them" individuality authorities implicit existent history.

The archetypal detonator was pulled by "Squad" subordinate Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., soon aft the October 7, 2023, panic attacks successful Israel. Rather than offering a modular argumentation critique of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Lee, according to Politico, utilized a backstage Facebook station to deploy 1 of the astir inflammatory weapons successful the progressive arsenal, accusing the non-partisan advocacy radical of practicing "textbook anti-blackness."

She did not halt there. According to Politico, Lee further labeled the enactment — and by extension, its ngo of strengthening the U.S.-Israel enslaved — an "existential menace to the Black assemblage and its close to self-determination."

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In August, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., successful remarks to the People’s Conference for Palestine gave her enactment to its caller run to kick AIPAC retired of U.S. politics. The campaign’s website says, "AIPAC threatens escaped speech, devastates workers' economical interests, advocates for endless wars and sabotages planetary diplomacy — each astatine the cost, and against the will, of the American people."

Let’s telephone this what it is: a governmental deed occupation disguised arsenic societal justice.

Just 7 days aft the Hamas violent attacks connected Israel, thousands of anti-Israel activists rallied successful beforehand of its consulate successful Los Angeles connected Oct. 14, 2023. (Jay L. Clendenin/Los Angeles Times)

When the "Squad" and their allies people AIPAC, they aren't conscionable debating overseas policy; they are reviving the oldest, ugliest "dark money" smears successful the antisemitic book. They overgarment Jewish governmental information arsenic a "foreign intrusion" oregon a "nefarious force" designed to subvert Black and American interests. This communicative doesn’t conscionable disregard the facts; it spits connected a period of shared struggle.

The intelligence bosom of this confederation wasn't recovered successful immoderate smoke-filled D.C. boardroom. It was recovered connected the campuses of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) successful the 1930s. When America’s elite, "White" ivy-league institutions slammed their doors unopen connected Jewish scholars fleeing Nazi Germany, HBCUs opened theirs. These Jewish professors didn't get arsenic "colonizers" oregon "outsiders"; they stood side-by-side with Black students to dismantle the ugliness of radical segregation.

(L-R) US Representative Summer Lee, Democrat of Pennsylvania, embraces US Representative Rashida Tlaib, Democrat of Michigan, arsenic the past President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union code successful the House Chamber of the US Capitol successful Washington, DC, connected March 7, 2024.  (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

Indeed, Dana's parents witnessed this firsthand astatine Howard University successful the 1960s. They didn't spot a zero-sum contention for influence. They saw Jewish and Black leaders arsenic brothers-in-arms successful a shared pursuit of the American promise. To perceive modern politicians framework Jewish advocacy arsenic inherently antagonistic to Black communities is an insult to each state rider who sat connected those buses.

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But the rot is spreading beyond the fringes. Even mainstream governmental heavyweights similar Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and California Gov. Gavin Newsom person reportedly begun "distancing" themselves from AIPAC-bundled funds. When leaders of that stature amusement fearfulness and commencement moving for the hills, it signals that the fringe’s "dark money" smear campaign’s stench has reached the top. It suggests that enactment for Israel — erstwhile a pillar of bipartisan American statement — is being rebranded by the extremist near arsenic a "problematic" liability, astir illegitimate.

African-American civilian rights activistic Martin Luther King Jr (1929 - 1968, center) listening to a transistor vigor successful the beforehand enactment of the 3rd march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to run for due registration of achromatic voters, 23rd March 1965. Among the different marchers are: Ralph Abernathy (1926 - 1990, 2nd from left), Ralph Bunche (1903 - 1971, 3rd from right) and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907 - 1972, acold right). The archetypal march ended successful unit erstwhile marchers were attacked by police. The 2nd was aborted aft a ineligible injunction was issued.  (William Lovelace/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

By framing AIPAC and Jewish governmental engagement arsenic an "existential threat," Rep. Lee and her colleagues aren't "standing up" for the marginalized. They are actively hindering the precise coalition-building that moved this state from the backmost of the autobus to the Civil Rights Act. They are trading a 100 years of hard-won advancement for a "sensational" 24-hour quality rhythm and a fewer much "likes" from the anti-Israel utmost and delusional fringe.

This is simply a unsafe game. When we let governmental leaders to suggest that 1 group’s advocacy is simply a menace to different group’s existence, we don't conscionable suffer a lobby — we suffer our motivation center. We invitation suspicion to regenerate solidarity.

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Leo Terrell, president of the DOJ Task Force to Combat Antisemitism speaks during a reception for Black History Month successful the East Room of the White House connected Feb. 20, 2025. (Pool via AP)

Only a fewer weeks ago, Israel commemorated Yom HaShoah, the Holocaust Remembrance Day, for the millions of Jews who were murdered by the Nazi regime’s evil. Those undermining Israel’s precise legitimacy (not governmental criticism) and the Jewish community’s close to combat for what they judge in, assisted by media pundits and propagandists bent connected telling lies and darkening people’s hearts, are facilitating different warfare of elimination. 

Daniel Goldhagen’s "Hitler’s Willing Executioners — Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust" shows that the Holocaust wasn’t conscionable the enactment of a fewer monsters, but of ‘ordinary’ radical conditioned by a civilization of hate. Today, that aforesaid conditioning is being mass-produced successful integer echo chambers, turning governmental sermon into a caller ‘industry of lies’ that dehumanizes earlier it annihilates. It is antisemitism cloaked successful authorities and diplomacy, which nevertheless results successful the massacre of Jews successful Hebron, Gaza, Pittsburgh and Australia.

 It is the accumulation enactment of the adjacent procreation of those aforesaid consenting executioners. 

Anti-Israel protesters basal down a banner speechmaking "Glory to our Martyrs, Victory to the Resistance" during a objection connected April 30, 2026. (Rachel Wolf/Fox News Digital)

Over the past twelvemonth and a half, the Trump Administration has done overmuch to code antisemitism, particularly successful higher education, where, since Oct. 2023, Jewish students person been targeted and adjacent physically assaulted. Leo Terrell, the Chair of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, has made it wide — done actions, not conscionable words — that determination volition beryllium consequences for allowing a poisonous situation of antisemitism connected assemblage campuses and expanded the Task Force’s absorption to see simple and precocious schools.

But it’s not lone up to the authorities to combat this disease. More needs and indispensable beryllium done by us, the "ordinary people." Not conscionable by passive remembrance, but by taking action. It is clip to halt the smears. It is clip to cull the "woke" wedge being driven betwixt Blacks and Jews, and betwixt America and its Jewish community. It is clip for the soundless bulk to outcry retired and marque a basal — politically and publicly. If we let these suspicion-laden tropes to win, the lone victors volition beryllium the extremists who privation to spot America divided. 

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Let’s retrieve the past that really built this country, and bash this not for Israel, not for the Jewish community, but for America and america all.