Radical Politics Clash of Radicalisms: Jews and People of Color at Brooklyn College Brooklyn College American Studies 3212 Professor Jocelyn Wills May 23, 2018 Jesse Brennan Clash of Radicalisms: Jews and People of Color at Brooklyn College The Long 60s is marked by
Blacks and Jews in Melee at Brooklyn College NEW YORK TIMES May 5, 1971 A fight between black and white students, the latter mem bers of the Jewish Defense League, was broken up shortly after noon yesterday on
Left-Wing vs. Right-Wing Jews In this archival source from the Brooklyn College Library, we see a radical left-wing student saying in 1971 that reports about oppression of Jews in the Soviet Union was "
Black Panther Black Panther Antisemitism From 1969, a hysterical Black Panther rant about Israel. Why this ferocious and racist attack on Jewish self-determination? Finding a pretext for radical resentment regarding rent dispute with Jewish landlords?
Black Panther Jewish Panthers in Israel Mizrahi Jews (Jews with parents from Iraq and Morocco) formed the Israeli Black Panthers in 1971, influenced by the American Black Panthers. They believed they faced racial discrimination and oppression
Radical Politics 1970 NYC Hard Hat Workers vs. Students In 1970, a group of "hard hats" or structural iron workers got into a battle with anti-war student protestors in lower Manhattan. New York has some ugly riots
Black 1960’s Italian American Radicals vs. Black Panthers Joe Columbo formed the Italian American Civil Rights' League which teamed up with Meir Kahane's JDL against black radicals. However, Meir Kahane put some distance between himself as Michael Imperiale
Radical Politics 1969 Radical Gay Riot vs. Police Bigots The Stonewall Rebellion in NYC signalled the start of the gay pride movement, which has continued its progressive and liberation movement until this day. Here we had oppressive Irish (as
Jewish Next Year in Jerusalem This is the record in the jukebox at the student center that led to a near riot at Brooklyn College in 1971. (passage from The Story of the Jewish Defense
Jewish 1977 Jewish Protesters vs. Neo-Nazis Skokie march pressented holocaust survivors with the spectacle of full regalia Nazis goose stepping and Heiling. It was a big free speech case in the United States.
Radical Politics 1968 Rioting Police vs. Student Protestors Irish-American Mayor Daley was quite a bigot, referring to Senator Abraham Ribicoff as a "Jew Sonovabitch." Senator Abraham Ribicoff was the Senator who at the Chicago Democratic Convention
Jewish Latino vs. Jew Radical Black and Latino resentment against Jewish students that were earmarked money to protest the Neo-Nazi march through Skokie Illinois in 1977, a town with a large Holocaust survivor population. While it seems quite obvious to me at first glance that genocide is much
Brooklyn College Rebels Without a Cause? Sidney Hook was an old left figure who was quite critical of the excited student protestors who justified their havoc by talking about Vietnam. In Sidney Hook's opinion, there was
Jewish Jewish-Black Clash In 1971, a Jewish-Black riot over JDL members trying to play Israeli music on the jukebox in the student canteen, which they tried to play music on after Meir Kahane
Jewish Jewish Pride A proud display of Jewish identity, this seemingly innocuous gesture would lead to heated debates on the Brooklyn College campus, such as the Israeli-Palestinian Teach-In or the brawl between black
Jewish JDL vs. Black Panthers The JDL releases a parody of New Left ideas such as “ending all wars”, mocking the demand for bilingual education and open admissions. This document was found in the Brooklyn
Jewish Latino vs. Jewish Latino Student Radicals consider Brooklyn College “racist” for not having Latino-Studies programs. Gold who is named here might have found it a bit offensive because Jews experienced quotas at WASPy
Radical Politics What caused the Clash of the Radicalisms? One might wonder why the different identity "the Movement" of Progressivism and Social Justice sometimes devolved into bitter feuds with eachother and with radical Right-Wing groups? What happened
Black Radical Black vs. Radical Italian Clashes In 1967, a Riot broke out in Newark NJ after reports circulated about police beating a Black man. Death(s) 26 were killed, 727 injured, and 1,465 arrested during
Black The Complicated History Between Blacks and Jews One August morning in 1967, Will Maslow, executive director of the American Jewish Congress and a civil rights activist, opened the newsletter of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the
Jewish Jewish Feminists Joyce Antler is the author of Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women's Liberation Movement, forthcoming from NYU Press Jewish women were a prominent presence in the radical wing of
Black March on Selma King and Heschel Martin Luther King, Jr. listening to a transistor radio in the front line of the third march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to campaign for proper registration of black voters,
Vietnam Radicalization in 1960s Madison, Wisconsin: One Participant's Reflection From Solidarity February 27, 2012 by Patrick M. Quinn The three most radicalized university campuses during the late 1960s were Columbia University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of
Radical Politics The Young Lords The Young Lords was a Puerto Rican group of radicals, virtually took over parts of New York City in the 1960s and early 1970s fighting for self-determination for Latinos and
