{"id":1917358,"date":"2023-04-20T22:27:36","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T02:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-hakeem-jeffries-wont-condemn-uncles-anti-semitic-comments\/"},"modified":"2023-04-20T22:30:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T02:30:04","slug":"watch-hakeem-jeffries-wont-condemn-uncles-anti-semitic-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-hakeem-jeffries-wont-condemn-uncles-anti-semitic-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Hakeem Jeffries Won&#8217;t Condemn Uncle&#8217;s Anti-Semitic Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-hakeem-jeffries-wont-condemn-uncles-anti-semitic-comments%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1917358&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<p><span>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D., N.Y.) in comments to reporters on Thursday did not <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1649072291978829829?s=20\"><span>denounce<\/span><\/a><span> anti-Semitic remarks made by his uncle, whom he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/04\/12\/politics\/kfile-hakeem-jeffries-college-editorial-defending-uncle-from-antisemitism\/index.html\">defended<\/a> in a n<\/span><span>ewly unearthed college op-ed, merely saying he does not &#8220;share any of the controversial views.&#8221;<\/span>\t<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I think I\u2019ve made clear consistently that I do not share any of the controversial views that were expressed by my uncle more than three decades ago,&#8221; Jeffries <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1649072291978829829?s=20\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> during a Thursday press conference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Jeffries came under fire last month when CNN surfaced a 1992 opinion piece he wrote as a college activist in which he <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/house-dem-leader-defended-anti-semites-who-praised-hitler-called-black-conservatives-house-negroes\/\"><span>defended<\/span><\/a><span> his uncle, Leonard Jeffries, against criticism of his anti-Semitic comments. His uncle had claimed <\/span><span>that &#8220;rich Jews&#8221; were responsible for the slave trade and alleged the existence of &#8220;a conspiracy, planned and plotted&#8221; by Jewish businessmen in Hollywood to portray black people poorly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The op-ed contradicts Jeffries&#8217;s claims over the years that he had only a &#8220;vague recollection&#8221; of the controversies surrounding his uncle and hadn&#8217;t looked at the anti-Semitic speeches he made.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the 1992 op-ed, Jeffries further defended Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, an infamous anti-Semite who <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/?post_type=post&#038;p=1698663\"><span>defended<\/span><\/a><span> Adolf Hitler and assailed the &#8220;stranglehold that Jews have on this government.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Dr. Leonard Jeffries and Minister Louis Farrakhan have come under intense fire,&#8221; Jeffries wrote in 1992. &#8220;Where do you think their interests lie?&#8221; He claimed his uncle &#8220;has challenged the existing white supremist [sic] educational system and long standing distortion of history.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;His reward has been a media lynching complete with character assassinations and inflammatory erroneous accusations,&#8221; Jeffries added.\u00a0<\/span>\t<\/p>\n<p><span>Jeffries also compared black conservatives to &#8220;House Negroes&#8221; during American slavery, calling them &#8220;tokens&#8221; and &#8220;opportunists.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;The House Negro of the slavery era and the Black conservative of today are both opportunists interested in securing some measure of happiness for themselves within the existing social order,&#8221; Jeffries wrote in college.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D., N.Y.) in comments to reporters on Thursday did not denounce anti-Semitic remarks made by his uncle, whom he defended in a newly unearthed college op-ed, merely saying he does not &#8220;share any of the controversial views.&#8221; &#8220;I think I\u2019ve made clear consistently that I do not share any of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":1917359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[5977,3801,6144,13374,13376,24766,4516,4324],"class_list":["post-1917358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-anti-semitic","tag-comments","tag-condemn","tag-hakeem","tag-jeffries","tag-uncles","tag-watch","tag-wont"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1917358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1917359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1917358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1917358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1917358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}