The New York Times called them “sidewalk ministers” who practice “tough love.” The paper quoted Heidi Beirich of the Southern Poverty Law Center who described them as victims of racism and claimed that they were non-violent.
The Washington Post, in its own puff piece on the Black Hebrew Israelites, also falsely described them as non-violent, and concluded that, “Israelite street preaching in parts of D.C., Philadelphia and New York is commonplace, a familiar if odd accent to city life.”
The odd accent to city life in Jersey City came amid a hail of bullets as two members of the racist black nationalist hate group opened fire in the JC Supermarket. Despite initial claims by the media and the authorities that the Jewish market had not been targeted, David Anderson and Francine Graham ignored passerby on Martin Luther King Dr, to get to the store and kill as many Jewish people as they could.
When the shooting had ended, Moshe Hersh Deutsch, a yeshiva student who was known for helping distribute food packages to the needy, Mrs Leah Mindel Ferencz, a mother of 3 who helped her husband run the grocery store, and Miguel Jason Rodriguez, the father of an 11-year-old daughter and a parishioner at an Assemblies of God church, were all dead.
Anderson, who left behind anti-Semitic and anti-police writings, had also killed Detective Joseph Seals, a father of 5, and wounded Officer Ray Sanchez and Officer Ferenella Fernandez.
The black nationalist terrorist had hated cops and Jews. He managed to kill both.
The media whitewash of the racist Black Israelites had come during the Covington Catholic case when the Washington Post, among other papers, had falsely blamed the pro-life students for a confrontation that actually began when members of the nationalist hate group had begun calling them, “crackers,” “faggots,” and “pedophiles.” An African-American pro-life student was called the ‘n-word’.
Rep. Ilhan Omar, who has her own history of racism and anti-Semitism, falsely claimed that the Covington Catholic students were “taunting 5 black men.”
The New York Times equivocated that members of the hate group “use blunt and sometimes offensive language, and gamely engage in arguments”. The typical “offensive language” and argumentative style of the Times’ second favorite racist hate group involves shouting racist and anti-Semitic slurs at people.
David Anderson, the Kosher supermarket shooter, had a whole YouTube playlist of such ugly incidents. In one video, a Black Israelite preacher shouts, “Satan is in you” at a Jewish man. “You stole our history. You are pretending to be us. The messiah, who is a black man, is going to kill you.”
Gamely indeed.
In another video, a Black Israelite preacher calls a Jewish teen a member of the “Synagogue of Satan”. “We want our book back and we want our land back,” the preacher demands. “Go back to Russia.”
You can see why Rep. Ilhan Omar might have felt called to defend the racist hate group.
“They move you all over the earth, but we know who you are. You are part of the Zionist deception. You go among the earth to spread Zionism, which is really Catholicism,” he rants. “Witchcraft and sorcery.”
Such statements may seem deranged, but they’re typical of the supremacist theology of the hate group.
Previous incidents involving the hate group have been even uglier with a video that doesn’t appear on Anderson’s playlist showcasing a Black Israelite preacher shouting, “The Holocaust is a damn joke! Heil Hitler!” A documentary shows another preacher standing on a prone white man and declaiming, “We’re coming for you, white boys. Negroes are the real Jews. Get ready for war.”
It’s no wonder that Tom Metzger a KKK leader and the founder of the White Aryan Resistance, had described them, as “the black counterparts of us”.
And yet, the New York Times concluded its whitewash of the hate group with a closing quote by Todd Boyd, a professor of race and culture at UCLA, which claimed that, “To many black people, Hebrew Israelites are a harmless part of their communities.”
No doubt to many white people the KKK are a harmless part of their communities. Racist hate groups are the bigger problem for people who aren’t a member of their race.
“More alarming to many African Americans,” the UCLA professor of race had argued, is “seeing a white guy in a ‘Make America Great Again’ hat.”
The dead at the JC Supermarket would have liked to have seen a MAGA had instead of black coats.
The whitewash of the Black Israelite hate group was the work of John Eligon, a reporter hired by the New York Times to report on race, who had previously defended Rep. Ilhan Omar’s anti-Semitism, and had injected black nationalist sympathies into his writing. The Washington Post’s whitewash of the hate group was the work of Sam Kestenbaum, a contributing editor at the radical leftist The Forward. The anti-Jewish paper has a long history of whitewashing and defending anti-Semitism by its political allies.
But the problem is much bigger than just the media’s whitewash of the Black Israelites.
The FBI’s warning about the threat of “black identity extremism” was met with a wave of attacks by the media. A New York Times op-ed warned of “The F.B.I.’s Dangerous Crackdown on ‘Black Identity Extremists’” The Intercept, a notorious radical hate site funded by Franco-Persian eBay billionaire Pierre Omidyar, joined in. “Why the FBI’s “Black Identity Extremist” Classification Is Dangerous,” Teen Vogue had argued. The Nation had warned of a “Coming War on ‘Black Nationalists'”.
Rep. Karen Bass, a militant anti-Israel Democrat, despite representing a partially Jewish district, attacked former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the FBI, and other officials over the BIE category. This was after the murder of 4 Dallas police officers by Micah X. Johnson and Kori Ali Muhammad’s targeted killing of three white men in Fresno.
“I don’t believe black identity extremists exist, and I believe the FBI should retract the document and send out a document throughout law enforcement saying that black identity extremists do not exist,” Bass had ranted.
This year, under pressure, the FBI jettisoned the BIE term. Just in time for the Kosher market shooting.
The FBI report helps police officers prepare for coming threats. By undermining the warnings about black nationalist violence, Rep. Bass, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and every media activist and politician who went to bat for black nationalist racists sabotaged police preparedness.
And they have blood on their hands.
The media is already embracing the familiar narrative about lone wolves and individual instability. That’s the same story we hear after acts of violence by members of a movement that it is politically allied with.
Hate groups, whether it’s the KKK or the Black Israelites, or campus hate groups like the Groypers or SJP, should be exposed with clear and honest facts about who they are and what they believe.
When political activists and media whitewashes cover up the truth for partisan reasons, people can die.
A father of five with a badge, a mother of three running a grocery store, a man working to support his daughter, another man delivering food packages, did not have to die. If the truth had been told about the Black Israelites, they might still be alive today. Instead the media lied and they are gone.
Truly standing up against racism and anti-Semitism means jettisoning partisan agendas for the truth.
Rep. Karen Bass, the New York Times, The Intercept, the ACLU, and others colluded to tie the hands of the FBI and local police because they see black nationalists like Anderson as allies in their cause.
After the attack, a representative from Americans Against Anti-Semitism, an organization which, unlike the ADL, actually opposes hate wherever it comes from, took a camera to record local reactions.
“I blame the Jews. We never had a shooting like this until they came,” one resident bellows. “My children are stuck at school because of Jew shenanigans.”
“Four of y’all are dead right? That’s great. If they was there, they got shot dead, that’s great,” a man says.
“Get the Jews out of Jersey City,” someone else shouts.
There’s nothing extraordinary about this. It’s the everyday hate that we can’t talk about. The hate that the media is quick to cover up. If you want to understand why children are beaten on Brooklyn streets and why a Kosher supermarket was shot up, it’s because we aren’t allowed to talk about it.
Evil needs silence and complicity. The media and Democrat politicians are guilty of both.
The Ferencz family, Moishe and Leah, opened a small market on Martin Luther King Dr. They filled the narrow aisles with bread, juice, candy, milk, and the household staples you need when time is short.
They worked late hours.
And then, while Moishe was praying next door, the black nationalist bigots whom the New York Times, the Washington Post, Rep. Ilhan Omar, and Rep. Karen Bass had defended, killed his wife.
That is the story that the media won’t tell. But it must be told.
Walter Sieruk says
This news is of no real surprise, concerning the actual character of that Muslim politician ,Ilhan Omar.
For after her election to Congress she was thus was given a seat on the House of Foreign Affairs Committee where she has much influence to promote her Un-American Islamic ideas ,politics and polices upon America .
Omar with her foreign Islamic agenda she desire to impose on America which are in strong contrast to American ideas , values , politic and polices are a matter of concern .
With this type of insidious Islamic infiltration in the US government the wisdom of the former US President, Theodore Roosevelt, very much applies to this serious situation.
For in a speech President Roosevelt, rightly, declared “There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only one hundred percent Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.”
Battle says
Ilhan Omar is a jihadi jew hater.
Sam says
Not just a Jew Hater, a full fledged Infidel hater which is everyone who are not Muslim. Take away the Quran and the Hate would disappear along with all of them.
revereridesagain says
Where are “impeachment” and “censure” when a Muslim anti-Semite in hijab starts flapping her jaws in the halls of Congress?
Back when I was working with Cult Awareness Network in the 90s we knew the Black Hebrew Israelites (or whatever they called themselves then) were just one more of the hundreds of cults we watched, all of them full of hatred for the other ones and for anyone who did not share their own private delusions. Most of the time the media wouldn’t cover them then either, and like so many other REAL hate groups that were ignored, innocents ended up paying for it with their lives.
Wellington says
Disgusting woman.
Fifth columnist.
A Muslim.
Do the “math.”
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
You are, of course, correct.
And Bernie calls Omar “extraordinary.”
Can you imagine if Bernie were President – and Omar was VP?
Pure evil – both of them.
Seeing them pictured together makes me want to take a fistful of Xanax – but I won’t of course.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sanders-omar-extraordinary-new-hampshire
Gary teeter says
Love doesn’t come at the hands of killers, but murder does.
gravenimage says
Rep. Ilhan Omar defended Nation of Islam-influenced group behind kosher market attack in Jersey City
………………….
Just appalling–but who can be surprised by this?
Kepha says
Now, what is the exact connection between the Hebrew Israelites and the NOI, apart from being made up of disgruntled African-Americans?
Michael Pillon says
There’s no such thing as black Hebrew Israelites. When the Hebrews were testing out their tribe through enterprise and a bit of clumsy civil engineering a couple of thousand years back, Africans were sitting huddled in mud huts, berating themselves for not even inventing the wheel. Or language. Truth hurts, I know… but it’s a necessary agony in eventualities such as this.
gravenimage says
Michael, the “Black Hebrew Israelites” have a lot in common with the Black Muslims in that they are African Americans who pretty made the whole thing up in the early 20th century. They claim to be from one of the lost tribes of Israel, but they really have nothing to do with Judaism. They have long been rude and aggressive, but to my knowledge have not usually been violent until now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hebrew_Israelites
RegT says
Lots of people on the Left have not been violent (or rarely) until Obama was elected. He fomented racial division and racial hatred, black and brown against white. He was not as open about it as race baiters such as Al Sharpton, Ellison, and others, but he and pretty much all who worked with and for him (Rice, Holder, Van Jones, Loretta Lynch, and more) all openly expressed bias against whites. Holder even went so far as to state he would not prosecute “his people”, and proved it by refusing to bring charges against blacks who turned whites away from voting at polls on election day.
Of course, Soros played a huge part in increasing racial division by financially supporting and organizing Black Lives Matter and the caravans from Central America to our southern border. Violence is simply the continuing evolution of the Left from mostly non-violent ideology to a militant, violent movement, now that it feels strong enough to come out into the open.
James Lincoln says
RegT,
I never realized it at the time but all of this stuff was brewing just under the surface…
Lydia Church says
Terrible.
And because we aren’t allowed to talk about it, more of it will happen of course.
Like you said, that is the reason why evil prospers.
For the left, today’s terrorists are tomorrows celebrated heroes.
Sad and tragic!
James says
In my own experience in the city where IO is representative, some people who would not advocate violence against Jews or Christians still justify her and her comments. They may even repeat some of the famous libels of Jews as though they were “gospel truth”. Naivete and foolishness can be as dangerous as outright hatred.
mortimer says
The Black Israelites sound very similar to foundational Islam. A group of thugs with a chip on their soldier and a sociopathic attitude.
RegT says
They are also a perfect example of “cultural appropriation” – as usual, a behavior they accuse others of, when it is their defining characteristic.
Mike (Michael) Hulden says
I Wish to add information on the KKK newspaper named Forward. I did grow up in after-WW2 Austria and got to know Nazism up very close as many of my peers at my school had Nazi Parents along with my main School teacher who had lost this toes in Stalingrad. The name Forward can be a loose translation of “Der Stürmer”. Wikipedia writes: Der Stürmer literally “The Stormer / Attacker / Striker”) was a weekly German tabloid-format newspaper published by Julius Streicher, the Gauleiter of Franconia, See more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Stürmer
GaMbaJd says
The article makes the Black Hebrew Israelites seem like an over the top fringe group, but in reality they are making the same claims that are the foundation of Islam. It all goes back to who was the rightful heir to the promise YHWH made to Abraham, his first borne son and legitimate son Ishmael (born to Hagar who acted as Sarah’s surrogate at her request, which she made because she doubted YHWH’s word and even mocked Him) or his second born, Isaac, who’s mother was Sarah, Abraham’s half sister and also his wife.
I was brought us a Christian so I was indoctrinated to believe that it Isaac was the rightful heir, however the source is a purported recording is in Genesis, a book (manuscript) not written for many hundreds of years after the fact and by the descendants of Sarah’s second son. If one is to be objective about it, you have to admit the Muslims have several points on their side.
For example, why would YHWH bless Sarah, who by the Law of Moses (some centuries later) was involved in an incestuous relationship with her half brother ( “`Do not have sexual relations with the sister of either your mother or your father, for that would dishonor a close relative; both of you would be held responsible.” Leviticus 20:19) – who doubted Him, over Hagar, a slave who was not born into the belief in YHWH, but who nevertheless converted and accepted him as God, and prayed to Him.
BilboQBaggins says
They may as well put on white sheets and pointy hoods because they are as bigoted as Antifa and just as violent as the KIK. Omar should be ostracized from the House and deported back to Somalia so she can be stoned by her countrymen.
OLD GUY says
We need to pass a law that restricts 1st generation immigrants from holding public office. Our current system of immigration not only lets the fox in the hen house it lets the enemy into positions of running the house.
Buzz says
A Muslim should NEVER be elected to public office in this country. Muslims are bound by Islam to follow Sharia law. Islam and Sharia law are not compatible with our Constitution, our freedoms and our way of life. We cannot assimilate people who are hostile to our government, our laws, our way of life, demanding and intent on conquering. Islam should be banned in this country for that very reason.
Walter Sieruk says
Ilan Omar is obviously extremely anti-Jewish and likewise very anti-Israel therefore Omar is , in essence , Un-American and thus unfit to hold any political office in the USA .
As so well explained by the former US President, William Howard Taft, when in a speech he declared
“Antisemitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.”
mike casmer says
but pres. trump is a threat to our national security. why?
Islam_Is Islam says
@Mr Greenfield: What is your evidence for including America First “Groypers” in a class with Black Hebrew Israelites? I’ve been investigating their pertinent questions during Charlie Kirk’s recent Turning Point USA Culture Wars Q&A’s and find that many of their questions, especially regarding both legal and illegal immigration, are aligned with the thoughts and research of Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Tom Tancredo, and others. Is it possible that as with Tommy Robinson’s EDL, there is an infiltration of anti-Semites into the Young America First-ers who seem to be fighting to conserve American Moral Culture as well as American Constitutional principles? Thank you for your thoughts as well as links to evidence.