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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]“ In the American context, the most ironical thing about Negro anti-Semitism is that the Negro is really condemning the Jew for having become an American white man--for having become, in effect, a Christian.”

This is SO wrong, I can’t even begin. He displays absolutely zero knowledge of the fact that Jews, on a per capita basis, are more likely to be victims of hate crimes than any other group.

We have survived primarily because we have hidden who we are. When we have made it clear who we are, we have been attacked.  [/quote]

I think you are actually agreeing with him, though you don't appear to realize it. [/quote]

No. I’m really not.

He is so massively wrong about how he is casting the American public reaction to the Warsaw Ghetto, Israel, etc. I have been researching to find ANY evidence that those things were cast as “morally righteous struggles.” I would welcome anyone finding evidence to corroborate what he wrote.[/quote]

You said, "We have survived primarily because we have hidden who we are". In other words, by assimilating Jews have avoided most anti-Semitism. Baldwin's point is that as Jews assimilated, black people saw them as white people rather than another oppressed minority. These are really two sides of the same coin.

It is a bit hard to provide evidence of American public opinion prior to 1967. But I can deduce from this letter:

https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/pageturn/mums312-b141-i058/#page/1/mode/1up

that a commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the uprising was held in New York for "paying tribute to the Ghetto heroes" and among the invited speakers was W. E. B. DuBois.

This article seems to suggest that public opinion and US policy was strongly pro-Israel in the 1960s:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/24916095?seq=1

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Ok so that’s DuBois.

What about Carmichael? What about the Crown Heights riot?

Jews assimilating has been a survival tactic. When we make our religion clear, we get attacked. That’s not becoming the white man; that’s hiding for survival.[/quote]

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