At History News Network, Michael R. Fischbach — a professor of history at Randolph-Macon College, and author of Black Power and Palestine: Transnational Countries of Color — says that CNN‘s firing of Marc Lamont Hill is part of a “long history” of Jews targeting blacks:

 When noted black intellectual Marc Lamont Hill spoke at the UN last month about justice for the Palestinian people, critics like those in the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) were quick to condemn him. …

Yet some of the most insightful criticisms of the way Hill was treated pointed out the controversy’s racial context: Hill’s was just the most recent case in a long history of blacks being publicly excoriated for “daring” to speak out on the great issues of the day in ways that defy white conventions. This was particularly true when discussing the Arab-Israeli conflict in a manner that challenges the carefully circumscribed discourse enforced by strongly pro-Israeli groups like the ADL.

This has happened before. Indeed, next year, 2019, marks the fortieth anniversary of a similar brouhaha that erupted when another black man very much in the public eye dared to challenge the rigidly pro-Israeli understanding of Americans’ approach to the Middle East: the Andrew Young Affair.

In August 1979, President Jimmy Carter forced the American ambassador to the UN, Andrew Young, to resign following revelations that Young had secretly met once with an official from the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in violation of an American pledge to Israel not to deal with the PLO in any way. Young, the highest-ranking black official in the Carter administration, had met the official to advance American policy aims but nonetheless was fired after facing a barrage of hostile public criticism, notably by American Jewish organizations.

When it was soon revealed that the American ambassador to Austria, a Jewish industrialist from Cleveland named Milton Wolf, also had met several times with PLO officials earlier that year but without similar repercussions, African-Americans exploded in fury and rallied behind Young.

Since Jewish groups have managed to get two African-Americans fired in 40 years, clearly there is a pattern of racism here. Oh, Fischbach didn’t directly call Jews racist. No, of course not. The headline just says that he’s “raising this question.”

So I’m not going to directly call him an antisemite. No, of course not. He just likes to single out Jewish organizations for using their inordinate power to destroy the careers of black personalities that they don’t like.

Well, one other black CNN commentator, Roland Martin, was suspended and ultimately let go — for encouraging people to bash gays. Obviously GLAAD, which demanded his suspension, is racist, right?

Why History News Network allowed this bigotry to be published is another story. The story doesn’t come anywhere close to proving Fischbach’s theory that Jews are racist, but it sure indicates that Michael R. Fischbach is a different type of bigot.

Fischbach, by complete coincidence, has spoken at a pro-BDS conference and features a poster in his office that shares Marc Lamont Hill’s desire for the destruction of the Jewish state, and no other state on the planet.

Elder of Ziyon has been blogging about Israel and the Arab world for a really long time now. He also controls the world, but deep down, you already knew that.

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