Fascism, Nazism and antisemitism are back in the headlines. Conservative media and the New Right are relaxing with popcorn and settling in to watch as tensions between the Black and Jewish communities increase once again. Today’s episode traces the legacy of conflict between Black and Jewish people in the United States from the so-called “Grand Alliance” of the Civil Rights era, the Black Power and Consciousness movements and the emergence of Zionism in the U.S. to the recent explosion in pop culture. Who stands to gain from this fracture should be painfully obvious, but that doesn’t make for good television.

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:01

Chapter One: The ties that bind us together. 00:06:54

Chapter Two: The lies that pull us apart. 00:18:30

Chapter Three: Israel. 00:27:09

Chapter Four: Bringing It Home. 00:37:26

Post Show Musings: 00:43:39

Outro: 01:26:01

Resources

Vanity Fair: The Secret History of Gavin McInnes

UNFTR: The Economics of Racism: Bootstraps, Black Banks and Redlining.

Pew Research Center: Economics and well-being among U.S. Jews

Observer: The Music Industry’s Long History of Dividing Blacks and Jews

National Archive: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

BBC: Leopold II: Belgium 'wakes up' to its bloody colonial past

The New York Times: What to Know About Irving’s Antisemitic Movie Post and the Fallout

Conspirituality Podcast: Ye, Balenciaga, & Twilight Zone Propaganda

Book Love

Terrence L. Johnson & Jacques Berlinerblau: Blacks and Jews in America: An Invitation to Dialogue

Jonathan Weisman: (((Semitism))) Being Jewish in America in the Age of Trump

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