Thread by @TruueDiscipline

Thread on this book about Black Jewish relations: amazon.com/Troubling-Wate…

Jewish position in between whiteness and non-whiteness:

Despite universalist message Jews still identified as Jews:

Jews could still be strongly identified Jews even if they were secular:

"If so, the NCJW was employing a strategy
other Jewish groups would also adopt: a sincere, if partial, claim of universalism that masked self-interest, which would later be challenged by
erstwhile black allies as devious or manipulative."

Why Jews supported blacks:

NAACP was able to get books cancelled even back in the day:

Have talked about blacks power to cancel things even in "racist" America before:

Jews were very dominant in owning businesses in black neighborhoods:

Poll on whether Jews treat blacks better than other whites:

90% of the US population said that they would rather lose the war than give full equality to blacks:

Jews feared that blacks would fall prey to pro nazi beliefs, one white anti-semitic pamphlet read "To save the British (or Yiddish?) empire!"

ADL was reliably informed that many blacks were rooting for the Japanese. Here is an interesting podcast about the relationship between blacks and Japanese during the war: slate.com/podcasts/one-y…

No other ethnic group had the relationship between blacks and Jews, but there were challenges

NAACP lobbied some non-white countries to support Israel

Jewish orgs helped fund the famous doll study that brought down school segregation

Despite their relationship, blacks in Baltimore were more likely than whites to say that Jews were dishonest in their business dealings

Not all Jews supported Civil Rights movement, some lodges in the south urged ADL not to file in Brown v Board

Jewish paper though death penalty for Rosenbergs was Jewish judge overcompensating

Apparently Jews were more likely to merry blacks than other types of whites:

Thought this was an interesting quote at the end:

Very few Jews voted for Jesse Jackson

Other white ethnic groups shifted right, but practically alone, Jews stayed left:

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