RealClearPolitics | "Black Lives Matter is endangering the fairness of our legal system. Because they're rooting for outcomes based on race. Started a long time ago. Started with the O.J. Simpson case."
BostonGlobe | To support an organization or movement that promotes anti-Semitism
because it also supports good causes is the beginning of the road to
accepting racism. Many racist groups have also promoted causes that
deserve support. The Black Panthers had breakfast programs for
inner-city children, while advocating violence against whites. And the
Ku Klux Klan organized summer camps for working-class families, while
advocating violence against blacks.
There must be zero tolerance
for anti-Semitism, regardless of the race, religion, gender, or sexual
orientation of the bigots who promote, practice or are complicit with
it. Being on the right side of one racial issue does not give one a
license to be on the wrong side of the oldest bigotry.
To give
Black Lives Matter a pass on its anti-Jewish bigotry would be to engage
in racism. Black anti-Semitism is as inexcusable as white anti-Semitism
or white racism. There can be no double standard when it comes to
bigotry.
I write this column both in sorrow and in anger. In
sorrow because I support the goals of the Black Lives Matter movement — I
have long been involved in efforts to expose and prevent police abuses —
and worry that this obnoxious and divisionary platform plank may
destroy its credibility with regard to police abuse in America by
promoting deliberate lies about Israel. It is also alienating Jewish and
other supporters who could help them achieve their goals here at home —
as many such individuals have historically done in actively supporting
all aspects of the civil rights movement.
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