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
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
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.
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
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
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,
JDL Dershowitz vs. Kahane Brooklyn College Alumnus Alan Dershowitz debated Rabbi Meir Kahane in 1985 on the issue of Israel. The two attended the same Yeshiva High School in Brooklyn, and both attended Brooklyn
