Language:
French
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
Aleph, Beth; art - philosophie - littérature
Angaben zur Quelle:
3 (1999) 67-77
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1945-
;
Antisemitism History 1945-
;
Antisemitism History 1945-
;
Black people Relations with Jews
;
African Americans Relations with Jews
Abstract:
Traces the decline in relations between Blacks and Jews, especially in the U.S. and in France. This deterioration began in the mid-1960s, following two decades of cooperation between them in the struggle against prejudice. The turning point came with the growing tension over Zionism, and culminated in the Jewish rejection of the nationalist philosophy of the Nation of Islam, which they consider antisemitic. An increase in Afrocentrism in academic circles during the 1980s led to an inevitable schism between the two groups. Compares the American milieu with that of France, where there was no tradition of alliance between Blacks and Jews. Three movements provoked anti-Jewish feeling among Blacks in France: revisionism, the study of African Egyptology, which espouses the superiority of Blacks, and the strength of the Nation of Islam in France. Concludes that the Church took advantage of its influence to turn Blacks against Jews, and proposes that Blacks unite in a positive way to promote their cause, in the same fashion as Jews demonstrate their solidarity with Israel.
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