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On Monday, an alliance of groups affiliated with the
Black Lives Matter movement unveiled their first official platform.
The 40,000-word manifesto contained
many recommendations, including concrete policy proposals, for rectifying the
wrongs perpetrated against America’s African-American citizens in the past and
present.
Unfortunately, the platform also contained a vicious bigoted slur
against the Jewish state, which the document’s foreign policy section accused of
perpetrating “genocide” against Palestinians. (The platform also labeled Israel
an “apartheid state” and joined with the BDS movement in calling for the total
academic, cultural, and economic boycott of the country.
Falsely accusing the state founded by Jews in the ashes
of their own genocide of committing genocide is, simply put, a blood libel on a
national scale. It is a slur against the 6 million Jews in Israel and the vast
majority of world Jewry that supports them. That Black Lives Matter would
indulge in such ignorant and incendiary claims undermines its standing as an
anti-racist organization.
Now, to be clear, given the platform’s 40,000-word
length and numerous sections and subjects, it is extremely unlikely that most
activists involved in its drafting had anything to do with the small
portion pertaining to Israel. Doubtless most of the many thousands of
Americans, including American Jews, who deeply sympathize with the aims of
Black Lives Matter and similarly seek criminal justice reform, see no
connection between this activism and assertions of Israeli genocide.
But it is sadly just as clear that those select
activists who shoehorned such a slur into the Black Lives Matter platform,
whether out of ignorance or malice, have needlessly driven a wedge into
the very necessary alliance to ensure equal treatment of America’s
African-American brothers and sisters.
