Anti-Semitism and the Women's March (Brown, leader, state, claim)

[Absolom]

It was there that, as the women were opening up about their backgrounds and personal investments in creating a resistance movement to Trump, Perez and Mallory allegedly first asserted that Jewish people bore a special collective responsibility as exploiters of black and brown people—and even, according to a close secondhand source, claimed that Jews were proven to have been leaders of the American slave trade. These are canards popularized by The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, a book published by Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam—“the bible of the new anti-Semitism,” according to Henry Louis Gates Jr., who noted in 1992: “Among significant sectors of the black community, this brief has become a credo of a new philosophy of black self-affirmation.”

https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-new...h-melting-down

Loooong article.

[turkeydance]

Jews might have been the leaders in ALL trade.
back then, slave trade was part of that.

[Clarallel]

So, your point is that black participants were trying to guilt-trip Jewish participants?

[katzpaw]

"To this day, [since the 2016 meeting] Mallory and Bland deny any such statements were ever uttered, either at the first meeting or at Mallory’s apartment. "

[travis t]

Originally Posted by turkeydance

Jews might have been the leaders in ALL trade.
back then, slave trade was part of that.

Slavery was ubiquitous in antiquity. When they fled Egypt under Moses, it was arguably the only successful slave revolt of antiquity. Jews were also the first to conclude that slavery was immoral. This happened under the 2nd Commonwealth, the Hasmoneans, around 100 BC. Jewish scholarship of the time noted that if 'man is made in the image of God,' one man could not own another as property.

This concept passed on to Christianity, and by about 1000 AD slavery had been eliminated from Christendom. It re-emerged in the 15th century when Portuguese acquired slaves from Muslim traders to work their sugar plantations on islands off the coast of Africa. But eventually it was extirpated again in the 19th century.

Unfortunately for Farrakhan and his sympathizers, the history of slavery and Islam is not quite so progressive. Saudi Arabia did not officially ban slavery until 1960.