{"id":290531,"date":"2017-01-18T02:14:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T01:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-blackjewish-alliance-but-not-in-israel\/"},"modified":"2017-01-18T02:14:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T01:14:00","slug":"us-blackjewish-alliance-but-not-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-blackjewish-alliance-but-not-in-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"US Black\/Jewish Alliance\u2014But Not in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>The Jewish supremacist \u201cFoundation for Ethnic Understanding\u201d and the Anti-Defamation League have called for a new alliance with blacks against Donald Trump\u2014but in Israel, which both organizations support, black \u201crefugees\u201d are locked up and deported in order to preserve the \u201cJewish nature of the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to a report in the Jewish <em>Forward<\/em> newspaper (\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/forward.com\/opinion\/359416\/why-jews-must-fight-for-the-civil-rights-of-muslims\/\" target=\"_blank\">Why Jews Must Fight for the Civil Rights of Muslims,\u201d January 9, 2017<\/a>), Rabbi Marc Schneier, the president of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, said that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAs we celebrate the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., American Jews should reflect anew upon the epic struggle he led to free African-Americans from the shackles of bigotry and take pride in the singular role played by the Jewish community in support of King and African-Americans.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rabbi Schneier continued by saying that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAs we await the advent of the new Trump administration, it is more important than ever for our community to reconnect with that uplifting chapter in American history half a century ago,\u201d and that to this end, \u201cAmerican Jews in 2017 must resolve that we will continue to speak out openly and assertively in support of the principle that Americans of all faiths and ethnicities \u2014 including Muslim Americans \u2014 must be accorded full civil rights and religious freedom as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Finally, Rabbi Schneier says that in \u201crecent weeks, many rabbis and Jewish leaders&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/us-black-jewish-alliance-but-not-in-israel\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jewish supremacist \u201cFoundation for Ethnic Understanding\u201d and the Anti-Defamation League have called for a new alliance with blacks against Donald Trump\u2014but in Israel, which both organizations support, black \u201crefugees\u201d are locked up and deported in order to preserve the \u201cJewish nature of the state.\u201d According to a report in the Jewish Forward newspaper (\u201cWhy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-290531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}