Are these Jewish organizations still supporting Black Lives Matter?
Christopher Tremoglie
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Flashback to the year 2020, when Black Lives Matter was instigating chaos and destruction in cities nationwide. Protesters walked through the streets, allegedly angry at the death of George Floyd in police custody. Rioters and looters devastated communities nationwide, also allegedly due to outrage over Floyd’s death, though the correlation between his death and stealing flat-screen televisions from Target is still being researched.
During this “summer of love” (a comment by Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan to describe that year’s rioting, looting, chaos, and destruction), many Jewish politicians and organizations expressed solidarity with BLM and supported their goals and objectives. They repeated many of the myths and lies BLM told about systemic racism and police shootings, donated money to BLM fundraising efforts, and helped promote the organization in prestigious media outlets, as you will read below. In many ways, they helped facilitate BLM’s rise to prominence.
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Now, it is 2023, and BLM is embroiled in numerous scandals, as are many aspects of the so-called anti-racism movement. And how did BLM repay its Jewish supporters? By coming out and publicly supporting Gaza — and Hamas — in the current conflict between them and Israel.
I wonder if these Jewish organizations still support BLM or are asking for refunds of their donations. I wonder if the more than 600 Jewish groups regret publishing a full-page ad in the New York Times emphatically declaring their support for BLM and advancing its radical narratives. Among those who signed include “ardently Zionist, mainstream organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League and Jewish Federations of North America local chapters.”
“We are Jewish organizations and synagogues from across the racial and political spectrum; from different streams of Judaism; whose members trace their lineage from countries around the world,” said the ad in the New York Times. “We speak with one voice when we say, unequivocally: Black Lives Matter.”
Black lives may have mattered to these Jewish organizations, but the lives of the Israelis killed by Hamas don’t matter to Black Lives Matter. Shortly after the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, a Black Lives Matter chapter out of Chicago posted a graphic of a paratrooper (in reference to Hamas paragliders) and declared solidarity with Gaza, not Israel, the latter of which was the country that was invaded, brutally attacked, and suffered over a thousand deaths. They announced they “stand with Palestine” in a since-deleted post on X.
After the outrage, the group walked back its post. It could have denounced the atrocities against Israel. It could have condemned all the violence involved and promoted peace. Instead, it sided with Palestinians and insinuated Israel was the aggressor.
“Yesterday we sent out msgs that we aren’t proud of,” the organization posted on social media. “We stand with Palestine & the people who will do what they must to live free. Our hearts are with the grieving mothers, those rescuing babies from rubble, who are in danger of being wiped out completely.”
It was an eye-opening statement and indicative of the toxicity of BLM’s ideals and beliefs. BLM used Jewish organizations to advance agendas consisting of baseless allegations of rampant, systemic racism in the criminal justice system and police departments nationwide. Then BLM came out and essentially did the very thing Jewish organizations denounced in its ad.
Consider the following statement: “As Jews, we know how dangerous this is: when politicians target Jewish people and blame us for problems, it leads directly to violence against us,” the ad reads.
Yet, BLM declared that Palestinians “will do what they must to live free.” The implication was that Israel was to blame for Palestinian problems.
Obviously, those 600 Jewish organizations can support whatever movements they want to. Additionally, not all the groups who signed the New York Times ad could be described as Israel’s staunchest supporters since it included groups that support the “Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement, including Jewish Voice for Peace and Anti-Zionist Shabbat.”
Nevertheless, it’s an example of why organizations shouldn’t rush to align themselves with radical political groups like BLM. This is especially true when such organizations were exposed for repeatedly advancing social justice myths that were regularly debunked and disproved even before 2020.
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Jewish organizations that virtue-signaled for BLM in 2020 were betrayed in 2023. They were duped and should ask BLM for a refund. But ultimately, they have no one to blame but themselves because many conservatives warned about groups like BLM, but these Jewish organizations chose to support them anyway.
It raises the question: Do they still support them? Moreover, given all of BLM’s rhetorical and financial fraud, would the organizations have the political courage to finally denounce Black Lives Matter?