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Hip-Hop Star Joins Anti-Semitism Fight

(Ha'aretz) Shlomo Shamir - In a ground-breaking article to be published this weekend in newspapers which reach Jewish and black readers across the U.S., hip-hop legend Russell Simmons will urge African-Americans to join forces with Jews to fight anti-Semitism in Europe and the U.S. America's Jewish community cannot fight anti-Semitism on its own, says Simmons, an admired role model for millions of American blacks. If Martin Luther King were alive today, he would protest against the new wave of anti-Semitism, write Simmons and co-writer Rabbi Marc Schneier. Nor would Martin Luther King keep quiet about the "moral laryngitis" of political leaders who fail to speak out against hatred of Jews. "This is the first time in years that such a central, popular figure among blacks in America, particularly among young people, has issued such a strong condemnation of anti-Semitism, and called for a renewal of the historical alliance between African Americans and Jews," said Jewish leaders in New York.
2004-01-16 00:00:00
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