Short thread, as we approach July 4th about the Johnson–Jeffries race riots in America and the suffering of the Jews in Europe, as detailed by the great Jewish & Zionist leader, Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotinsky, in his essay "Homo Homini Lupus,” or “Man is As a Wolf to Other Men." 
On July 4th a boxing match took place between Jack Johnson & Jack Jeffries. Johnson was the reigning heavyweight champ, and only the second African-American to hold that title.
Jeffries, who was white, had been heavyweight champ but refused to fight Johnson & retired
Jeffries, who was white, had been heavyweight champ but refused to fight Johnson & retired
Jeffries announced he would “reclaim the heavyweight championship for the white race.” He became the “Great White Hope" in "the fight of the century.”
The @nytimes warned, “If the black man wins, thousands of his ignorant brothers will misinterpret his victory.”
Johnson won.
The @nytimes warned, “If the black man wins, thousands of his ignorant brothers will misinterpret his victory.”
Johnson won.
Riots broke out. As Jabotinsky wrote:
“Since it was the black man that won & there was a suspicion that other blacks in the land would feel proud, the white citizens could not tolerate this, they sought to quash black pride & fell upon blacks in a proportion of 50-to-1."
“Since it was the black man that won & there was a suspicion that other blacks in the land would feel proud, the white citizens could not tolerate this, they sought to quash black pride & fell upon blacks in a proportion of 50-to-1."
“In the US, there are 10 mil citizens suffering a shocking lack of rights simply because of the color of their skin,” he wrote.
Pervasive inequality that was more severe than “anywhere else in the cultured world, even if also we included in this definition Russia and Romania."
Pervasive inequality that was more severe than “anywhere else in the cultured world, even if also we included in this definition Russia and Romania."
Across the country African-American's were beaten and killed:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson%E…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson%E…
Jabotinsky noted in his essay the irony of this hatred:
He then contrasted this with the suffering & persecution of Jews in Europe. Even in Finland, which he noted didn't compare to the suffering of the Jews in Romania, Poland, & Russia:
He tells of how Jews in Poland have no rights, "& in the courts a Jew will not receive justice. To the contrary, a judge will shame and curse the Jewish witness, calling him ‘Judas Iscariot’ (such a judge is ‘punished’ in that he will be promoted)."
This led Jabotinksy to proclaim "Homo Homini Lupus, that a man acts towards his fellow-man worse than does a wolf."
The Essay: en.jabotinsky.org/media/9742/hom…
The Essay: en.jabotinsky.org/media/9742/hom…
African-Americans & Jews persecuted, fighting for freedom. For Jews, only answer was the re-establishment of their indigenous homeland in the land of Israel
As he stated: "the objection to the Jew is not religious but racial, & he must therefore be persecuted even if baptized”
As he stated: "the objection to the Jew is not religious but racial, & he must therefore be persecuted even if baptized”
African Americans & Jews have a shared history of persecution & collaboration. From co-founding the NAACP, to Rabbi Heschel marching with MLK, to Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman & James Chaney being murdered on the freedom rides.
Am Yisrael Chai & Black Lives Matter
Am Yisrael Chai & Black Lives Matter
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