{"id":2094854,"date":"2023-11-09T05:19:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T10:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/left-wing-school-board-president-goes-full-farrakhan-says-jews-ran-the-slave-trade\/"},"modified":"2023-11-09T05:21:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T10:21:31","slug":"left-wing-school-board-president-goes-full-farrakhan-says-jews-ran-the-slave-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/left-wing-school-board-president-goes-full-farrakhan-says-jews-ran-the-slave-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Left-Wing School Board President Goes Full Farrakhan, Says Jews Ran the Slave Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fleft-wing-school-board-president-goes-full-farrakhan-says-jews-ran-the-slave-trade%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=2094854&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--><blockquote>\n<h2>&#8216;No one&#8217;s hands\u200b are clean,&#8217; Rochester \u2062City School District&#8217;s Cynthia\u2063 Elliott says\u200c in\u200c response to Hamas attack<\/h2>\n<figure><figcaption>Cynthia\u2062 Elliott, Louis Farrakhan\u200c (rcsdk12.org, Win McNamee\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<p>A liberal school\u2062 board president in\u2063 upstate New\u200b York is defending Black Lives \u2062Matter&#8217;s\u2062 embrace of Hamas by arguing that Jews are \u200bto blame for the \u2063slave trade, \u2064a\u200d long-debunked anti-Semitic trope that Louis Farrakhan&#8217;s Nation\u200c of Islam first advanced in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>Under the direction \u2064of school board\u2064 president \u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcsdk12.org\/site\/default.aspx?PageType=3&#038;ModuleInstanceID=64101&#038;ViewID=7b97f7ed-8e5e-4120-848f-a8b4987d588f&#038;RenderLoc=0&#038;FlexDataID=58764&#038;PageID=48850\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cynthia\u200b Elliott<\/a>, Rochester\u200c City\u2064 School \u200cDistrict has disseminated teacher training \u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcsdk12.org\/Page\/50704\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resources<\/a> from Black Lives Matter at School, a left-wing group that\u200b aims to &#8220;address racial justice \u2064in education.&#8221; \u2063After the group released\u2064 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blacklivesmatteratschool.com\/teachingpalestine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> \u200b blaming Israel for Hamas&#8217;s \u200bOct. \u20637 terrorist assault \u2062on the Jewish state, parental rights group Parents Defending Education asked Elliott \u2063and the district&#8217;s\u2063 other\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/44-san-francisco-schools-to-see-name-changes\/\" title=\"44 San Francisco schools to see name changes\">school board members<\/a> if they \u200dwill continue working with Black Lives Matter at \u200bSchool. Elliott responded by \u2062arguing that the Jewish \u2062people&#8217;s &#8220;hands&#8221; \u200dare not\u2063 &#8220;clean,&#8221; citing the &#8220;Jewish nation and their involvement in slavery&#8221; as \u200dproof.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First, not one\u200c hand of any \u2062individual, living or dead, is \u2062clean,&#8221; Elliott \u2063wrote in an Oct. 28 email obtained by the <em>Washington \u2064Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;But I would ask that you study the history of the Jewish nation and their\u200c involvement in\u200d slavery\u2014financing the slave ships to bring Africans into \u200dthe Americas and the \u2063Caribbeans. As I \u200dsaid, no one&#8217;s hands are clean.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Elliott&#8217;s response reflects the explosion of anti-Semitic rhetoric\u200b in America&#8217;s colleges and K-12 schools. A \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/d-c-public-schools-use-black-lives-matter-curricula-to-teach-black-history-month\/\" title=\"D.C. Public Schools Use Black Lives Matter Curricula To Teach Black History Month\">public school district<\/a> in Massachusetts,\u2064 for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/public-school-district-tells-its-teachers-israeli-terrorism-has-been-significantly-worse-than-hamas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sent its teachers a resource<\/a> \u200barguing that \u200b&#8221;Israeli terrorism&#8221; \u200cis &#8220;significantly worse than that of the Palestinians.&#8221; A public high school \u200cteacher in \u2063New York \u2063City, meanwhile, \u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/nyc-public-school-teacher-shares-image-depicting-hamas-paraglider-calls-attack-successful-military-campaign\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made headlines<\/a> \u200d when he\u2064 described Hamas&#8217;s \u2062attack \u2063as a &#8220;successful military campaign.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Farrakhan, a notorious anti-Semite who has \u2063called Jews &#8220;termites,&#8221;\u2064 first espoused the \u200dclaim that \u200cJews dominated the slave trade in\u2063 1991, when\u200c he released a Nation \u2064of Islam book titled <em>The Secret Relationship\u2064 Between Blacks and Jews<\/em>. The \u2064book argued\u200d that Jews dominated the Atlantic \u2063slave trade and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/left-wing-school-board-president-goes-full-farrakhan-says-jews-ran-the-slave-trade\/\" title=\"Left-Wing School Board President Goes Full Farrakhan, Says Jews Ran the Slave Trade\">routinely raped black women\u2014claims<\/a> that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nypl.org\/research\/research-catalog\/bib\/b12646073\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anti-Defamation League<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/books\/edition\/Farrakhan_s_Reign_of_Historical_Error\/DchtAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&#038;gbpv=0&#038;bsq=bibliogroup:%22Simon%20Wiesenthal%20Center%20Report%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simon Wiesenthal Center<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/research-and-publications\/perspectives-on-history\/march-1995\/aha-council-issues-policy-resolution-about-jews-and-the-slave-trade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American \u200cHistorical\u200b Association<\/a> \u2063 condemned as both anti-Semitic and false.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The AHA deplores any misuse of history \u200cthat distorts the historical \u2062record to demonize\u2064 or demean a particular racial,\u200b ethnic, religious, \u2063or cultural group,&#8221; the association said in a 1995 resolution.\u2063 &#8220;The Association therefore condemns as false any statement alleging that Jews played a disproportionate role in\u200d the exploitation of slave labor \u200bor in the\u200c Atlantic slave trade.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Marc Caplan, who authored\u200b the\u200b Anti-Defamation League&#8217;s 1995 rebuttal to Farrakhan&#8217;s book, echoed the association&#8217;s resolution, telling the <em>Free\u200b Beacon<\/em> that Farrakhan&#8217;s claims were \u2063&#8221;so poorly considered and inadequately \u200bdocumented&#8221; that\u200c they &#8220;couldn&#8217;t withstand logical\u200d consideration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Both the anti-Semitism that motivated the book&#8217;s production and the inadequacy \u200bof its reasoning \u2062is confirmed by the fact that Farrakhan himself was unable to \u2062reproduce the \u200dactual arguments of the book\u200c when interviewed \u2064about it\u2014even in \u200csoft-ball interviews,&#8221; Caplan said. &#8220;This indicates \u2026 that historical analysis was never the \u2064point of the book.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Neither Elliott nor her school board colleagues responded to requests \u2064for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Black Lives Matter at School in its Oct. 17 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blacklivesmatteratschool.com\/teachingpalestine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> called Hamas&#8217;s terror attack &#8220;the direct result of decades of Israeli\u2063 settler \u200bcolonialism,\u200b land dispossession, occupation, blockade, apartheid, and \u200battempted \u200cgenocide of\u2062 millions of Palestinians.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Palestinians \u200care reminding us that decolonization is not a metaphor\u2064 or abstraction, \u2064but requires real,\u200c daily \u2063struggle,&#8221; the group wrote.<\/p>\n<p>A number of Black \u2062Lives Matter chapters have similarly <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/inside-black-lives-matters-long-sordid-history-with-pro-hamas-activists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dismissed \u2063and\u200b even glorified<\/a> the terrorist assault, which\u2064 killed scores of Israelis, including innocent women and children. A coalition \u200cof \u200b26 local\u2064 chapters called the attack a\u2063 &#8220;desperate act of self-defense,&#8221; while the Chicago chapter shared an image\u2064 glorifying Hamas \u200bgunmen\u2064 on \u200cparagliders. The\u200d movement&#8217;s\u200b Phoenix branch similarly praised Hamas\u200d &#8220;freedom fighters&#8221; for their\u200d acts of &#8220;resistance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Those statements do \u200bnot appear to have \u2064persuaded Elliott to cease her school district&#8217;s involvement with Black Lives Matter at School. Elliott in \u200bher email to Parents Defending \u200bEducation said that \u2064while she doesn&#8217;t &#8220;endorse many \u2062of the tenets by Black Lives \u2062Matter organization, the slogan is paramount for\u2062 the uplift\u200d of a \u200cpeople who this world castigates, marginalizes and\u200b kills every\u200b day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And,\u2063 lastly, know that \u200dI don&#8217;t condone what\u200b the\u200b Hamas terrorist has done, but as I continue\u2063 to say, no one&#8217;s hands are clean\u200d in this world,&#8221; Elliott added.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Published \u200bunder:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/anti-semitism\/\" title=\"View all posts in Anti-Semitism\">Anti-Semitism<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/black-lives-matter\/\" title=\"View all posts in Black Lives Matter\">Black Lives Matter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/hamas\/\" title=\"View all posts in Hamas\">Hamas<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/history\/\" title=\"View all posts in history\">History<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/israel\/\" title=\"View all posts in Israel\">Israel<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/louis-farrakhan\/\" title=\"View all posts in Louis Farrakhan\">Louis Farrakhan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/new-york\/\" title=\"View all posts in New York\">New York<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/public-school\/\" title=\"View all posts in Public School\">Public School<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/schools\/\" title=\"View all posts in Schools\">Schools<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/slavery\/\" title=\"View all posts in Slavery\">Slavery<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/teachers\/\" title=\"View all posts in Teachers\">Teachers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/terrorism\/\" title=\"View all posts in Terrorism\">Terrorism<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2>Wiesenthal Center, and many others. Given these concerns, here are three questions related to this topic:<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Ed \u2064Elliott or the\u2063 Rochester City\u200c School District\u200d to\u2062 distance themselves from Black Lives Matter at School. \u2063Despite the group&#8217;s anti-Semitic rhetoric and support for Hamas, the district continues to disseminate their \u200dresources to teachers, promoting their agenda of &#8220;addressing racial justice in education.&#8221; This raises concerns about the district&#8217;s commitment to unbiased and inclusive education.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2062fact\u200d that Elliott would defend this \u2063anti-Semitic rhetoric \u2064by blaming Jews for the slave trade is deeply troubling. 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