White supremacists trying to inflame Black-Jewish tensions with "slavery" flyers

Several times a week, antisemitic flyers are distributed in different parts of the country. This report from Fox in Atlanta this week describes a fairly typical event. The flyers typically mention the Goyim Defense League or GoyimTV, a white supremacist group that has been in the forefront of the wave of flyers as well as offensive signs on overpasses.The formula for the...

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Were the Afro-Palestinians slaves?

Last week one of the most famous black Palestinians, Fatima Bernawi - who was imprisoned for trying to explode a bomb in a Jerusalem movie theater - died. She was buried in a large ceremony in Gaza.Most articles about "Afro-Palestinians" say a version of this legend of how they arrived:Devout Muslims, Africans from countries such as Chad, Sudan, Nigeria and Senegal, trekked...

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Racism in the Arab world

19th-century engraving depicting an Arab slave-trading caravan transporting black African slaves across the Sahara. (Wikipedia) In June, Yasmine El Geressi wrote an article in Majalla that is the best I’ve seen in describing Arab racism against Black people, a topic that Western “anti-racists” studiously ignore. Excerpts: Anti-blackness is deeply embedded within Arab...

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