African Hebrew Israelites

Jewish community won't 'get pass' on 'anti-blackness,' slavery - US politician

"The Jewish community will not get a pass on their long history of anti-blackness, from their role in slavery to anti-Black American hate, to hatred towards black Jews," said Gregg Marcel Dixon.

‘Black people are actually Jew[s]’: The historical origins of Kanye West’s inflammatory comments

Entertainers and athletes such as Kendrick Lamar, Kodak Black, Nick Cannon and DeSean Jackson have also trafficked in antisemitic tropes about Jewish manipulation.

By ANDREW ESENSTEN/JTA
12/10/2022

Conservatives confuse Black ‘Israelite’ sects in labeling Ketanji Brown Jackson antisemitic

Ketanji Brown Jackson cited a case a Black sect with a base in Israel, causing conservatives to claim that she had embraced an antisemitic cult.

By RON KAMPEAS/JTA
24/03/2022

Deportation of African Hebrew Israelites temporarily denied

The Dimona community obtained an injunction, temporarily blocking Israel from deporting the Israelites, currently considered illegal aliens.

African Americans are threatened with imminent deportation from Israel

An open letter to Naftali Bennett, Yair Lapid, Ayelet Shaked and Nachman Shai

By JONATHAN KESSLER , A’SHANTI GHOLAR , JOE PERLOV , STAV SHAFFIR
16/09/2021

African Hebrew Israelites fight to stay in Israel

In 1973 the Israeli government ruled they did not qualify for automatic citizenship as they could not prove Jewish descent and had not undergone Orthodox conversion.

19/05/2021
Philadelphia Police Department, Pennsylvania

Black Hebrew Israelite shouts antisemitic slurs at racial justice protest

Parts of the Black Hebrew Israelites constitute a fringe group that operates independently of racial justice activists, and long predates and is unconnected to Black Lives Matter.

By BEN SALES/JTA
31/10/2020
Soldiers from the African Hebrew Israelite community

The expiration date for bigotry has long passed

Whether a Mizrahi sabra, Afro-Bedouin, Ethiopian or Sudanese asylum seeker, each labors under this oppressive burden and strangling cloud of discrimination.

By AHMADIEL BEN YEHUDA
14/10/2017
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