Language:
English
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Patterns of Prejudice
Angaben zur Quelle:
28,1 (1994) 3-25
Keywords:
X, Malcolm,
;
African Americans Relations with Jews
;
Jews
;
Antisemitism History 1945-
Abstract:
Malcolm X, the radical Black activist, underwent an evolution in his views on the Jews. He adopted his first views on the Jews from the Nation of Islam, of which he was a member between 1948-64. This radical and racialist organization, and its founder, Elijah Muhammad, developed its own antisemitic doctrine, regarding the Jew as white and therefore an enemy of the Black man - but the worst kind of white man, exploiting Blacks, shrewd, and hypocritical. Malcolm X added the accusation of the Jews as deicides and the delegitimization of the State of Israel. At the same time, he admired Jewish achievements in politics, economy, and culture and tried to emulate them in the drive to success. In the last year of his life, 1965, Malcolm X moderated his antisemitism, although he retained his loyalty to the Arab cause against Israel. Includes antisemitic cartoons taken from "Muhammad Speaks, " the Nation of Islam's periodical.
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