No one should have been surprised by BLM’s support for Hamas’ bloodlust. The fact that they were shows how effective the Left’s propaganda has been.
“Why Jewish lives don’t matter to BLM,” by Sean Collins, Spiked, October 23, 2023:
Following Hamas’s pogrom of Jewish people in Israel on 7 October, numerous Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists made clear where their sympathies lie. Within days, BLM’s chapter in Chicago posted a graphic that celebrated the slaughter. It showed a paraglider of the kind used by Hamas terrorists to enter Israel from Gaza and murder over 200 young people at a music festival. Below the picture, the caption read: ‘I stand with Palestine.’
After the tweet was viewed millions of times, BLM Chicago deleted it and gave a semi-apology. ‘Yesterday we sent out [a post] that we aren’t proud of’, it said, before re-asserting: ‘We stand with Palestine and the people who will do what they must to live free.’ That vague ‘will do what they must’ presumably does not rule out violence.
Even after the climbdown over the paraglider post, BLM activists in Chicago disrupted a city-council meeting as councillors discussed a resolution to stand in solidarity with Israel after the Hamas attack. The crowd rained down boos and chants, forcing mayor Brandon Johnson to clear the room. The resolution eventually passed, but only after BLM-allied council members left the meeting in protest.
Pro-Hamas statements from BLM were not limited to Chicago. Black Lives Matter Grassroots, a splinter group that represents about two dozen BLM chapters, rationalised Hamas’s terror as a ‘desperate act of self-defence’. BLM at School, an offshoot of BLM that organises teachers in schools, blamed the Israelis for Hamas’s atrocities. The ‘unfolding loss of Palestinian and Israeli lives is the direct result of decades of Israeli settler-colonialism, land dispossession, occupation, blockade, apartheid and attempted genocide of millions of Palestinians’, it said.
This outright support for Hamas, and the blaming of Israeli victims for Hamas’s butchery, came as a surprise to some liberals. They had viewed BLM as a worthy cause and saw themselves as allies of the movement. In the aftermath of George Floyd’s death in 2020, BLM skyrocketed in prominence and gained new-found respectability among the great and good. Its slogan was omnipresent. Streets in downtown Washington, DC had the words ‘Black Lives Matter’ painted on them in giant letters by the city authorities. The black BLM flag was flown all over the US, including in many schools. Major corporations and foundations showered BLM-affiliated organisations with millions of dollars. Many Jewish organisations in the US, including the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, also expressed support for BLM.
But now, witnessing BLM’s unholy alliance with Hamas, many establishment liberals are waking up to what BLM really thinks. Jewish organisations, in particular, feel betrayed after years of giving support to BLM. ADL national director Jonathan Greenblatt slammed the organisation: ‘The post shared in recent days by BLM chapters in Chicago and LA and [by] other fringe groups, glorifying the Hamas terrorists who used hang gliders to infiltrate Israel, slaughtering over 1,000 innocents, is beyond sick and twisted. It’s anti-Semitic, dehumanising and could prompt violence’, he posted on X. ‘The moral degeneracy of [Hamas’s] accomplices in the West is staggering’, he added.
As it happens, if these establishment allies of BLM had happened to take a few minutes to examine its history and political positions before sending millions of dollars to its bank accounts, they might not have been so surprised that it rushed to the defence of Hamas. In 2015, BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors led a mission to Israel, which she termed an ‘apartheid state’. That same year, while speaking on a panel at Harvard Law School, she adopted eliminationist rhetoric, calling ‘to end the imperialist project called Israel’. Like most of the pseudo-progressive left, BLM’s long-standing support for Palestine has included the belief that Hamas reflects the interests of the Palestinian people, and its violence must therefore be excused….
WPM says
Why should anyone be surprised one violent terrorist group(BLM) backing another terrorist group Hamas. Both rob from the very people they say they are protecting ,leaders of both groups buy mansions ( far from the violent mob the leaders living in gated communities) and live high on the hog as the people they claim to represent live in poverty .Both push for senseless violence and destruction and are bankrolled by people outside of their groups who want to totally destroy western civilization as their true goal. Neither group has done one positive thing to help the people they claim to represent. Both groups are darlings on college campuses where bored rich white kids can hitch their wagons to some “cause” to give meaning to their empty privilege lives.
Jayell1 says
Absolutely right. ‘Jewish lives don’t matter to BLM’? Black lives don’t matter to BLM either! Just luck at the murder stats globally, and particularly in the US where their disrespect for their own lives – and a few others as well – far outstrips their proportion of the US population. And here in London, UK, their 60+% contribution to the murder stats is way out of line with their 15% proportion of the population, with a 44% murder victim rate suggesting that they don’t particularly care who else they terminate into the bargain. However, our Jewish friends in what was once a civilised UK Capital City have a little more to worry about these days apart from just BLM & chums; they now have disciples of the Great and Mighty Prophet Who Must Be Revered By All to contend with and who seem to be multiplying like toxic bacteria with an excuse for ‘Mayor’ proudly proclaiming his allegiance to Hamas and just about everyone else from around the planet apart from the native inhabitants who built the place over the last 2,000+ years.
James Lincoln says
Jayell1 says,
“Black lives don’t matter to BLM either! ”
True.
They only matter when it advances “White on Black” narrative.
John Pepple says
Anyone who was surprised by this needs to do a critical review of all the decisions they have been making over the last decade at least. These would include why they like, or have not complained about, open borders, the mob violence after the death of George Floyd (and why they were so willing to believe that the police had killed him), and the attack on free speech. Mostly, though, they need to think about why they are so willing to be critical of one side and so uncritical of the other.
Bexarkat says
Nothing new here. Several years ago while visiting Israel and the territories, BLM members rallied with non-Israeli Arabs to proclaim “From Ferguson to Palestine….” Historically Islam has done nothing more for blacks than to enslave them. Jews have stood with them at almost every march, civil rights rally, creation of the NAACP and more. Jews have used personal riches to build schools for black children in the south who were otherwise denied an education, Jews have spent untold millions in providing scholarships for students of color. Not a single black person stood with the Jews when the Jews were protesting “prisoners of Zion” at the Soviet embassy in DC. Black leaders such as Farrakhan, Wright, Jackson, Sharpton, Obama, among others have denigrated Jews or the only Jewish state in the world. There’s no reason to expect change from black leftists.
bagsgroove says
Why should we care about black lives.
Walter Sieruk says
First ,the Marxist terrorists entity that has the title of ”Black Lives Matter” is not a real, genuine , civil rights organization , as the NAACP is. BLM with its violent Red/Green Alliance is a vicious cult that hates Jews to the extent that it supports Hamas.
Second, BLM is also a racist hate group ,which hates with a vicious spiteful deadly passion both Hebrews and Caucasians
Third, one of the “reasons” that the hooligans of Black Life Matter burn the Bible is that it in in strong contradiction to Marxism.
The other reason is because the Bible has in it the Ten Commandments and commandment number six is “You shall not murder” Exodus 20:13. [N.K.J.V.] and BLM is a murderous group.
Forth, in an earlier Jihadwatch article informs the reader that “The Black Lives Matter organization has embraced the movement known as the Red /Green alliance” which is the Communist -Islamic alliance.
Hamas, was started and is still funded by that Islamic tyrannical regime of Iran.
The jihadists of Hamas hate the Jewish people and they hate Israel and want to destroy her.
Likewise, the BLM members strongly dislike and even hate the Jew’s. This they have proven repeatedly by their words and actions.
That much Hamas and BLM have in common. Nevertheless, in the United kingdom or the United States of America the BLM members don’t realize of know it but they are only the what are called the “useful idiots” of the jihadists in their quest for the advancement of Islam and the establishment of Sharia law in all nations.
In other words, those jihadists use the BLM members as their stooges and tools to fulfill their Islamic agenda.
If successful in their Islamic agenda those violent jihadists will turn on their BLM stooges who they use as their tools for they might get in the way of the enactment of Sharia law which is very strict harsh and cruel.
Related to all this it might be of interest to some BLM members that a scholar on Islam who is an Arab woman and speakers and reads Arabic and uses to live in one of those countries on the Middle East had exposes in her book that the prophet of Islam ,Muhammad referred to Blacks as “ ‘raisin heads’ several time in the hadith [1:663:9:256]”
Her book also reveals that “Throughout the hadith blacks are also referred to as abeds, which means ‘black in Arabic and is also synonymous with the word “slave’ and filth.” In fact, Arab Muslims have enslaved blacks for 1,400 years and the Black slave trade is still thriving in Sudan and Mauritania.” Further in her same book the author reveals that “Most interesting, though, is the even though black slavery by Muslims began long ago , almost no descends of those slaves are alive today in the Muslim world. Why is there no black culture in the Middle East ? Most slaves were either killed or died from being worked to death.” [1]
[1] THEY MUST BE STOPPED by Brigitte Gabriel , pages 82, 183.
libertyORdeath says
To every jew who claimed that “white supremacy” was a threat equal to jihad terrorism, I hope you’ve learned something in the past few weeks.
To all the people pushing hate speech laws claiming that criticism of jews or Judaism was illegal and harmful, I hope you’ve learned a lot lately.
To all the jews who thought that they wouldn’t be lumped in with white Europeans in the critical race theory of oppressor versus oppressed I hope you can see clearly now.
To all the jews who thought aligning with anti-democratic Marxists was a good way to chang3 America into a more multicultural nation, I hope you see what “diversity” really brings.
We tried to warn you.
tgusa says
Black lives dont matter in Africa. Perhaps blm thinks murdered black Africans are Jewish. What a brave group blm is.
bagsgroove says
Why should we care about black lives.
Pjw says
Jews standing up for blm thugs now getting to know their real motives. But still this will not change, Donald Trump was the most pro Israel president ever in the entire history of American politics. Yet we saw in the 2020 election how Jews voted in massive numbers for joe Biden. I think if you go and do a survey today, you will see many Jews standing up with the Democratic Party. Organisations like adl are fiercely anti Trump and pro joe biden. They advocate for multiculturalism all around the world but not for Israel because that would damage the Jewish majority. Hypocrites, I have little sympathy for these kind of people.
bagsgroove says
Where are the Klan ….
DazzleMe says
Exactly, especially when you need them…LOL
DazzleMe says
BLM should never have been funded along with ANTIFA. These are terrorist organizations to begin with and should have been treated as such!