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Honestly with Bari Weiss

The State of the Black-Jewish Relationship in America: A Roundtable

Honestly with Bari Weiss

The Free Press

News, Society & Culture

4.67.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2022

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

For the last month, Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, has been all over the internet with his conspiratorial, antisemitic tirades. Most recently, he went on Alex Jones’ InfoWars show with White Nationalist Nick Fuentes and said things like, “I love Nazis” and “I see good things about Hitler.” Last month, there was also Kyrie Irving sharing a link to a video that claimed that blacks are the real Hebrews and the Holocaust didn’t happen. There was also the Black Hebrew Israelite march outside of Barclays Center that got almost no media coverage. All of this, took place in a country where Jews still suffer the largest total number of hate crimes, year after year. What’s happened over the last month isn’t about one celebrity or basketball player. As Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and I talked about recently, the antisemitic ideas we’ve seen in the news lately are not new in America. Especially not in black America. Black-Jewish relations in America have a long and dynamic history, from the shared struggle during the Civil Rights movement to the horror of the Crown Heights Riots in 1991. Throughout all of it, it’s hard not to think about the outsized influence of Louis Farrakahn, often dubbed the most popular antisemite in America. So today, an honest conversation with guests Chloe Valdary, Bret Stephens, Eli Lake and Kmele Foster about the history of these two communities in America, and how, as a society, we should respond to public figures who spew antisemitism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Barry Weiss and this is honestly.

0:03.0

I see good things about Hitler also.

0:08.0

The Jew, I love everyone and Jewish people are not going to tell me you can love, you know, us and you can love what we're

0:18.0

doing to you with the contracts and you can love what we're, you know, what we're pushing with the pornography.

0:23.8

As you may have noticed, Kanye West has been all over the internet

0:26.8

lately, again.

0:28.5

Former President Donald Trump is defending himself

0:31.4

against a Republican backlash over his recent dinner

0:34.0

with two known anti-Semites. He dined at Maralago with Trump and the white

0:39.5

nationalist Nick Fuentes.

0:41.0

He wentes at Maralago last week along with the rapper Yay, formerly known as

0:45.1

Kagnay West.

0:47.4

Then he went on Alex Jones's Infa War show with Fuentes and said things like,

0:51.6

I'm not trying to be shocking, I like Hitler. and just because you don't like one group doesn't mean the other look I love

0:58.0

Jewish people but I also love Nazis. I want to say there's a lot of good Nazis that were just fighting for their country.

1:06.6

And for them...

1:07.6

Oh, I'm Jordan Soros.

1:09.6

He even tweeted a picture of a swastika inside a Jewish star and got suspended from Twitter again.

1:17.0

I wish it was just that.

1:19.0

But there was also Kyrie Irving.

1:21.0

This morning, NBA star Kyrie Irving benched in the wake of

1:25.6

tweeting about an anti-Semitic film after he refused to apologize for

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