Jews and the Black
Holocaust
What are the Issues?
Blacks and Jews have been involved in a re-evaluation of their
current and historical relationship. Events of the past several
months have raised both tensions and the level of rhetoric coming
from all sides. The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and
Jews is a historical accounting of the part of the relationship
that has been ignored by both Blacks and Jews. Most people are not
even aware of the extensive record of encounters between the two
groups prior to the 20th century. The
Honorable Louis Farrakhan referred to this well-documented
history in 1984 and was immediately labeled an "anti-Semite." Merely
questioning the belief that Jews were co-sufferers in the Black slave
experience draws angry rebukes from Jews of all stripes. The book in
question presents indisputable historical data from census records,
wills, Jewish historians and scholars, rabbinical sermons, port
records, court records, runaway slave notices, slave sale
advertisements, etc., which forces all sides to grapple with the
long-held mythology that Black people always found a friend in the
Jews.
Some Jews and their dutiful negros have hired the services of Dr.
Harold Brackman of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in an effort to
preserve the comfortable mythology which has obscured the actual
historical record. But unbeknownst to them, Dr. Brackman's 1977
unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, entitled The Ebb and Flow of
Conflict, goes far beyond The Secret Relationship in its
claims of Jewish conspiracy in the Biblical origin of White
supremacy. He clearly states that Jewish Talmudic scholars invented
the Hamitic Myth which, through the story of Noah, everlastingly
assigned to the African the role of slave and divinely cursed servant
of White people. According to Dr. Tony Martin's book, The Jewish
Onslaught, the Jewish invention of the Hamitic Myth "provided the
moral pretext upon which the entire trade grew and flourished."
"There is no denying," said Brackman of the story of Noah, "that the
Babylonian Talmud was the first source to read a Negrophobic
content into the episode..." Brackman pointed out further that two
third century Jewish "Sages" provided homosexual embellishments for
the Biblical story as well.
This "curse" was the absolute basis for the Europeans' choice of
dark-skinned Africans for chattel slavery. Many denominations of
Christianity, Islam and Judaism believe it and teach it to this very
moment! Southern plantation owners attacked the Abolitionists with
it; its teaching was the foundation of the slaves' permitted
religion; Black inferiority is based on it; the Ku Klux Klan relies
on it; even the Mormons officially taught it until 1978. When the
Jews invented it and promoted it to the world they sentenced the
Black Race to a holocaust the likes of which no people have ever
suffered. "Hate teaching" will forever be defined by this wicked
belief system brought to us in the Jewish Holy Talmud via
Harold Brackman.
The critics curiously use a Harvard English teacher, Henry Louis
Gates, to offer historical clarity. Gates exhibits no evidence that
he even read the book in his oft-quoted NY Times opinion. His
willingness to make asinine historical claims with the glaring
absence of support from reputable Black or Jewish historians proves
Adam Clayton Powell's axiom: "Harvard has ruined more negroes than
bad whiskey."
Overwhelming Evidence
The history that the old "Black-Jewish Coalition" clumsily avoids is
the entire three century history of Jewish presence in South America
and the Caribbean. But other highly acclaimed Jewish scholars have
not been so blind:
- ·Lee M. Friedman, a one-time president of the American Jewish Historical Society, wrote that in Brazil, where most of the Africans actually went, "the bulk of the slave trade was in the hands of Jewish settlers."
- ·Marcus Arkin wrote that the Jews of Surinam used "many thousands" of Black slaves.
- ·Herbert I. Bloom wrote that "the slave trade was one of the most important Jewish activities here (in Surinam) as elsewhere in the colonies." He even published a 1707 list of Jewish buyers by name with the number of Black humans they purchased.
- ·Cecil Roth, writer of 30 books and hundreds of articles on Jewish history, wrote that the slave revolts in parts of South America "were largely directed against [Jews] as being the greatest slave-holders of the region."
- ·"I gather," wrote Jewish scholar Wilfred Samuels, "that the Jews [of Barbados] made a good deal of their money by purchasing and hiring out negroes..."
- ·According to the Jewish historians, all Barbadian Jews owned slaves - even the rabbi had "the enjoyment of his own two negro attendants."
- ·In Curaçao which was a major slave trading depot, Isaac and Susan Emmanuel report that "the shipping business was mainly a Jewish enterprise."
- ·Says yet another Jewish writer of the Jews of Curaçao, "Almost every Jew bought from one to nine slaves for his personal use or for eventual resale."
- ·Seymour B. Liebman in his New World Jewry, made it clear that "[t]he ships were not only owned by Jews, but were manned by Jewish crews and sailed under the command of Jewish captains."
- ·Moshe Kahan stated bluntly that in 1653-1658, " Jewish-Marrano merchants were in control of the Spanish and Portuguese trade, were almost in control of the Levantine trade...were interested in the Dutch East and West Indian companies, were heavily involved in shipping; and, most important, had at their disposal large amounts of capital."
- ·In Brazil, where most of our kidnapped ancestors were sent, Jewish scholar Arnold Wiznitzer is most explicit about Jewish involvement:
"Besides their important position in the sugar industry and in tax
farming, they dominated the slave trade. From 1636 to 1645 a total of
23,163 Negro slaves arrived from Africa and were sold for 6,714,423
florins. The West India Company, which monopolized imports of slaves
from Africa, sold slaves at public auctions against cash payment. It
happened that cash was mostly in the hands of Jews. The buyers who
appeared at the auctions were almost always Jews, and because of this
lack of competitors they could buy slaves at low prices. On the other
hand, there also was no competition in the selling of the slaves to
the plantation owners and other buyers, and most of them purchased on
credit payable at the next harvest in sugar. Profits up to 300
percent of the purchase value were often realized with high interest
rates....If it happened that the date of such an auction fell on a
Jewish holiday the auction had to be postponed. This occurred on
Friday, October 21, 1644."
Given the concise statements in the Jewish historical record, of
which the "Black/Jewish Coalition" is totally ignorant, how can it be
taken seriously in the present debate? (For even more evidence see
the Facts and Quotes Section.
Jews and Slavery in the Old
South
The Jewish critics prefer to focus on the history of slavery in
America while ignoring the kidnapped African family in other parts of
the Western Hemisphere. This attempt to focus the debate is designed
to limit the historical inquiry and to suggest that Blacks are to
care only about their Black family within America's political
boundaries. This view also conveniently limits the consideration of
evidence of direct Jewish involvement as whip-wielders in the slave
trade which is so abundant in the southern part of the Western
Hemisphere. By the time of the Jewish migration into what is now the
United States, Jews were less involved in the direct trade but
remained significant beneficiaries by their involvement in the
plantation economy.
Jews in the South were of the merchant class, according to a Jewish
historian, having developed "a separate and distinctive accommodation
to the plantation economy." The Southern planters depended upon these
merchants to move their produce to market as well as for a source of
supplies and financing. Jews had become commission merchants,
brokers, auctioneers, cotton wholesalers, slave clothing dealers, and
peddlers, keeping the slave economy oiled with money, markets and
supplies.
It is no mystery why the Jews were absent from representation in the
ranks of the Abolitionists. The American and Foreign Anti-Slavery
Society in their report of 1853 expressed their frustration at the
lack of Jews:
"The Jews of the United States have never taken any steps whatever
with regard to the slavery question. As citizens, they deem it their
policy to have every one choose which ever side he may deem best to
promote his own interests and the welfare of his country. They have
no organization of an ecclesiastical body to represent their general
views; no General Assembly, or its equivalent. The American Jews have
two newspapers, but they do not interfere in any discussion which is
not material to their religion. It cannot be said that the Jews have
formed any denominational opinion on the subject of American
slavery....The objects of so much mean prejudice and unrighteous
oppression as the Jews have been for ages, surely they, it would
seem, more than any other denomination, ought to be the enemies of
caste, and friends of universal freedom."
One study by Ira Rosenwaike published by the American Jewish
Historical Society has shown that 75% of the Jews of the South owned
Black slaves while 36% of the White population owned slaves.
Ask the Jewish critics to name one (just one) prominent Colonial
American Jew who did not own slaves. He will have the same difficulty
as the Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith had in their 1976
pamphlet entitled, American
Jews: Their Story. The ADL lists 13 pioneers of the American
Jewish community - 10 of whom have been definitively linked to the
slave trade. Some Jewish scholars of today, such as Jacob
Rader Marcus, chart the wealth and prestige of their ancestors by
the number of Black slaves they possessed. The point that the
"Coalition" eludes is the utter failure of Judaism to control this
oppressive impulse on the part of these Jews. As Rabbi Bertram Korn,
the foremost scholar of nineteenth century Jewish history, has
written: "It would seem to be realistic to conclude that any Jew who
could afford to own slaves and had need for their services would do
so....Jews participated in every aspect and process of the
exploitation of the defenseless blacks."
When Rabbi David Einhorn of Civil War era Baltimore, a true Jewish
friend of Black people stood up for the humanity of the Black Man
using the holy principles of Judaism from the Torah, his words were
brilliant:
"America of the future will not rest on slave chains or belittling
its adopted citizens. It will also give up its disinterestedness in
the fate of other peoples of the world....[T]he next battles
will leave a real blood bath, but slavery will be drowned in that
bath."
Alas, his own congregation physically expelled him from his position
as rabbi and ultimately from the city. They opted, as most Jews did,
to accept the "Judaism" of the most prominent rabbi of the time
Morris J. Raphall:
"[I]t remains a fact which cannot be gainsaid that in his own
native home, and generally throughout the world, the unfortunate
negro is indeed the meanest of slaves. Much had been said respecting
the inferiority of his intellectual powers, and that no man of his
race has ever inscribed his name on the Parthenon of human
excellence, either mental or moral."
The historical record is formidable and well-represented in The
Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Volume One. Within
334 pages there are 1,275 footnotes containing multiple references
for the reader to examine. The irrefutable record of Jewish
historical compliance with Black oppression is no longer a "secret."
The debate has surely changed.
The Washington Post has confirmed the accuracy of The
Secret Relationship while exposing the ignorance of its media
critics. University of Chicago African Studies professor and Jew
Ralph A. Austen has written in Tikkun Magazine that the
"substantive content...seems fairly accurate." Furthermore he says,
"The authors of The Secret Relationship underestimate the
structural importance of the Jews in the early stages of the New
World slave trade." The Jewish Community, negro followers, Harold
Brackman and Henry Louis Gates might do well to investigate that
amazing assertion of this Jewish historian.
Jewish Racism
But what of the continuing Jewish racism that elicits no
Jewish response at all. No letters warning of some ominous trend. The
African United Front of Los Angeles raised many of these issues in a
recent Final Call article:
- Michael Levin of City College of New York, Vincent Sarvich of the
University of California at Berkeley and Richard Hernstein at Harvard
are among the most prominent Jewish scientists and scholars who
maintain that Black people are intellectually deficient. Hernstein's
book Bell Curve harkens back to some plantation philosophy
claiming that Blacks are intellectually inferior to Whites. Other
Jews, including Howard B. Abikoff of the Long Island Jewish Medical
Center, Rachel Klein of the Long Island Medical Center and Columbia
University, and Gail Wasserman, in the Department of Child Psychiatry
at Columbia, are engaged in research which has the potential to link
genetics to violence in inner city Black and Latino children. Where
is the outrage, Coalition? Where are the calls for repudiation?
- Journalists like Jeff Greenfield, Norman Podhoretz, Roger
Rosenblatt and other Jews have besmirched the Black image in news
shows or on the printed page. Jewish producers in Hollywood like
Norman Lear, Mort Lochman and Ed Weinberger continually produce
degrading television sitcoms, like Sugar Hill, produced by
Armyan Berstein, Tom Rosenberg and Mark Abraham. These portrayals can
only be compared to Julius Streicher's degradation of Jews in Die
Sturmer in Nazi Germany.
- The San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco
Examiner, the Los Angeles Times and numerous other
newspapers have documented the fact that for decades the ADL ran a
private nationwide spy network - "a systematic, long-term,
professionally organized political espionage operation complete with
informers, infiltrators, money laundering, code names, wiretapping
and secret meetings." Newspapers have revealed that among the 950
organizations and 10,000 individuals that the ADL prepared files on
were many Black groups, including the NAACP!
There are many issues of varying degrees of significance that must
also be raised to clear the air:
For thirty years Israel has maintained strong economic, military,
nuclear, scientific, academic, energy, tourist, cultural, sports,
transportation, agricultural and intelligence ties with South Africa
- and thereby prolonged Black oppression there. Jews were the only
group in this country who arrogantly threatened to protest the visit
of revered African National Congress Chairman and now President
Nelson Mandela to the United States in 1990. They have labeled
Mandela and Bishop Desmond Tutu "anti-Semites" while the 110,000
Jewish South Africans are, in fact, the richest single community in
the world.
The late Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan asserted that the
quality of American military forces had deteriorated because they
were composed of Blacks "who have low intelligence and low
education." He urged America to ensure that "fresh blood and better
brains go to their forces." He is a hero in Israel.
Jewish talk show host Howard Stern was quoted in the November 1st
issue of Time magazine as stating that, "they didn't beat this
idiot (Rodney King) enough." In March, he played Ku Klux Klan songs
on his broadcast and used the term "nigger" 55 times in 10 minutes.
He offered the term "porch monkey" and "yard ape" as labels for
Blacks.
Furthermore, during the week of March 7, 1994, Jewish comedian Jackie
Mason was quoted by news broadcasts as having said: "The
susceptibility to violence happens to be more among Blacks than
whites - a hundred times more."
In 1991, Judge Joyce A. Karlin sentenced Korean merchant Soon Ja Du
to five years of probation, 400 hours of community service and a fine
of five hundred dollars for killing Black teenager Latasha Harlins.
Judge Stanley M. Weisberg transferred the Rodney King case to Simi
Valley and thereby virtually assured an unfair trial for the Black
victim. Superior Court Judge Roosevelt I. Dorn, a Black jurist who
had been hand-picked to hear the case of three men charged with
beating Reginald Denny during the early hours of the L.A. Civil
unrest, was removed from the case by District Attorney Ira Reiner.
Karlin, Weisberg and Reiner are all Jews. Jewish leaders did not
repudiate them for their "racism" or "unfairness;" there were no
newspaper advertisements taken out to condemn them, nor were their
names dragged before congress to be censured.
If the Jewish Community has a longstanding interest in providing
accurate information about history, culture and traditions of the
Jewish community, as some have claimed, maybe they should commence
with one or more of the above.
