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US Senator Cory Booker launches coalition of Black and Jewish senators

2021-06-04

[IsraelTimes] Sen. Cory Spartacus Booker
Cory <q>Spartacus</q> Booker

U.S. Senator-for-Life from Noo Joisey, formerly the mayor of Newark. Booker was a candidate for president in the 2020 Dem primary, running on a platform of Make America Newark. He once wrote an essay on how to grope babes and is noted for having an imaginary friend named T-Bone...
is leading a group of US Jewish and Black senators in establishing a coalition to fight antisemitism and racism.

The so-called Black-Jewish coalition will also include Booker’s fellow Democrats Sens. Raphael Warnock of Georgia and Richard "Dick" Blumenthal of Connecticut, as well as Tim Scott, a South Carolina Republican from across the aisle.

"There’s been a long history of Black people and Jewish sisters and brothers working together on a whole range of concerns," Warnock is quoted as saying by NJ.com.

The idea of convening the politicians was spurred by reports of rising antisemitism amid a national reckoning around racial injustice.

"We will be fighting both racism and anti-Semitism," Blumenthal says. "I think we’re in the midst of a racial justice moment and a reckoning now that could draw us together."

Scott Richman, director of the Anti-Defamation League in New York/New Jersey, praises the initiative.

"This would be an important step towards bringing together two communities with a shared commitment to justice and an end to bias and bigotry," he tells NJ.com.

A similar body, called the Congressional Caucus on Black-Jewish Relations, already exists in the House of Representatives.

Booker, who keeps a Hebrew Bible on his Senate desk, has a long history of connections with the Jewish community. He often cites Torah passages and recites Hebrew quotes in public appearances.

That no doubt dates back to his membership in Oxford University’s L’Chaim Society, an interfaith dinner and debating society hosted by Chabad’s Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, of which Senator Booker was co-president when he was there on a Rhodes scholarship. The two fell out over the honourable senator’s support for President Obama’s Iran deal, which the rabbi bitterly describes as genocidal.

Posted by:trailing wife

#14 must have been a member of the Black Hebrew Israelites.

Why? He could just have been a plain vanilla Black Separatist, without the religious gloss, or Nation of Islam.

Posted by: trailing wife 2021-06-04 18:14

#13 The black army veteran that shot 12 Dallas Police Officers must have been a member of the Black Hebrew Israelites.

Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2021-06-04 16:52

#12 Should add:

The ADL’s fact sheet on the group notes: “It should be emphasized that the extremist and anti-Semitic sects of Black Hebrew Israelites are unrelated to the thousands of black Jews and other Jews of color in the US, who are genuine members of the Jewish faith. Furthermore, they should not be confused with Ethiopian Jews who mostly live in Israel today.”

Although I cannot comment on the accuracy, The Red Sea Diving Resort is a fine movie.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2021-06-04 15:34

#11 From a different article:

The Black Hebrew Israelites movement has a history of street harassment of Jews, women and white people. According to the ADL, the movement’s “core principles” include “the beliefs that white people are agents of Satan, Jews are liars and false worshipers of God, and Blacks are the true ‘chosen people.'” Though some Black Hebrew Israelites are not overtly racist or anti-Semitic, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, there is “a rising extremist sector within the movement.”

The stabbing of five Orthodox in Jews in Monsey last Chanukah, which resulted in the death of one victim, was perpetrated by a man believed to be linked to Black Hebrew Israelism. And the perpetrators of the December 2019 attacks at a kosher market in Jersey City, where four people were killed, were also linked to the Black Hebrew Israelite movement.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2021-06-04 15:29

#10 Black people and Jewish sisters and brothers working together on a whole range of concerns,"

Like what?

Posted by: Dron66046 2021-06-04 12:56

#9 Corey who?

Posted by: warthogswife 2021-06-04 12:48

#8 Any Jews that go along with him all have a personal and cultural death wish. The left hates you. When are you going to get that through your thick skulls?

Posted by: DarthVader 2021-06-04 09:31

#7 Darn. I was sure that this was from the Bee.

Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2021-06-04 09:24

#6 ^ perhaps his boyfriend is?

Posted by: Frank G 2021-06-04 08:48

#5 Spartacus is now Jewish?

Posted by: JohnQC 2021-06-04 08:40

#4

Sen. Cory
What about US Asian-American Senators?
Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) 2017–present
Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) 2013–present

An they are Democrats also.

Posted by: NN2N1 2021-06-04 08:21

#3 Sammy Davis, Jr., where are you?

Posted by: Clem 2021-06-04 07:04

#2 Coming from this goof, it signifies (Sparta)bupkis

Posted by: Jack Elmusons6233 2021-06-04 01:20

#1 Words fail.

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-06-04 01:06

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