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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 the confluence of multiple streams of social and political activism by different groups, each clamoring for change and demanding attention

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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?

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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 who he saw as a racist. Michael Imperiale was the founder of the "North Ward First Aid Squad"

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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 League by Meir Kahans, pg 280).

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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 made an inflammatory speech.

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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 College archives. Apparently the radical African-American organization made an antisemitic speech in 1968. And the minority students had delivered their

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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 the "Long, Hot Summer." Newark was one of the first black majority cities in the United States. Its

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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 group famous for organizing sit-ins and the Freedom rides. Maslow felt hurt and betrayed when he noticed a feature titled

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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, March 23, 1965. Ralph Abernathy (second from left), Ralph Bunche (third from right) and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (far right)