MODERN BLACK FEMINISM IS ANTISEMITIC - NO MATTER HOW MUCH "CONTEXT" YOU TRY TO PUT ON IT

2:54 AM 1/5/2024 Fri

The old adage about being able to determine a tree by the fruit that it bears is particularly apt in the case of today's post, given the recent sacking, er, resignation of the University of Pennsylvania's Liz Magill and Harvard University's Claudia Gay in the wake of the Oct 7 terror attacks in Israel. Of course, their de facto firings were wholly justified - Jewish donors in particular to these august institutions have every right to be concerned about what their hard earned and very generous money is funding (to say nothing of the commonsense of the rest of the country looking on in shock at the abysmal performance of these two ladies, plus Massachusetts Institute of Technology's president Sally Kornbluth) - and as is often the case, in America, money talks and you know what walks.

Elite universities have touted their products - their graduates - as emblematic of what they stand for. They are the Masters and Mistresses of the Universe, the men and women who get to decide the rules by which the rest of us play. It has increasingly become the battleground of our country's culture wars - trigger warnings, safe spaces, Affirmative Action, and other ideological skirmishes that seemed, to the rest of us, abstract, remote and, to be frank at times, kinda petty.

Until Oct 7 happened.

Hamas, a terror organization founded in 1987(1) and actually voted into office as the ruling authority of the Palestinian people in 2006, and whose charter in 1988 was roundly deemed to be antisemitic, launched a horrific attack in Israel's southern district, resulting in upwards of 1200 killed - nearly 700 of which were civilians and almost 75 of them children. According to a piece written by Australian Bettina Arndt(2), mass rapes and sexual assaults on Israeli women and girls were so brutal that their pelvises were broken. And, in the weeks to follow as the Jewish State, under the leadership of Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu, would discover a vast underground network of tunnels built by Hamas over many years, for the express purpose of carrying out terror attacks on innocents. One of the largest of these tunnel networks were directly under a hospital in Gaza itself, such is the way that Hamas carries out its operations.

None of these facts - along with the additional ones being that Hamas would just as soon do to them what they did to scores of Israeli women and girls - mattered much to Ms. Feminista Jones(3) or Ms. Kimberly Nicole Foster(4). What only mattered is that Israel was the evil, colonizing occupier and that Palestine - the same people who voted for Hamas with a winning majority of 45% 2006(5)(6), with its popularity among the Palestinian populace doubling that as of last month(7) - was the hapless victim. Jones and Foster are, in their own words and actions, unabashed supporters of Palestine - which is to say, that they are unabashed supporters of Hamas, full stop - and which is truly ironic in light of the fact that Hamas would just as quickly do to them what they did to all those Israeli ladies and girls a few months ago.

Why are Modern Black Feminists so nakedly antisemitic, one may ask? It's something Karin Stogner attempts to ferret out in her excellently written piece, "Antisemitism and Intersectional Feminism: Strange Alliances"(8), appearing on the De Gruyter website only a few years ago. It's a powerful read, and among the many citations in this post, the one that in my view repays the most study. Among other things, Stogner cites one Ms. Tamika Mallory, one of the founding mothers of the Women's March in 2017 in opposition to the election of the 45 POTUS in Donald J. Trump. I remember quite well the dustup she and her Modern Black Feminists caused, when she and her cohorts clashed with their Jewish counterparts over Mallory's ten toes down support of the Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan, a long time foe of Abraham Foxman's Anti-Defamation League; much of the infighting took place right here in Philly.

Stogner goes on to document the ways in which "Intersectionality" a concept cooked up by Modern Black Feminist Kimberle Crenshaw - has been used as a thinly veiled way to "get at the Jews" - even Black feminist icon Angela Davis has gotten in on the act.

To be fair, and as Stogner and Arndt earlier bear out, antisemitism is hardly the sole preserve of Modern Black Feminists; other feminists from diverse backgrounds, creeds and colors, are Jew-bashers, if not out and out Jew haters, too. When one just takes a step back to survey it all in totality, it really makes you scratch your head - after all, some of the most influential thinkers of Modern Feminist thought have come from Jewish women themselves, most notably Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem, to name just a few. What gives?

It is a question I leave to readers to ponder for themselves. In the meantime, we now have to consider the post-sacking, er, resignation spinning that Jones and Foster are attempting to put on the Claudia Gay affair - namely, that it was a "vast, right wing conspiracy" to drive her out - not her lackluster bona fides, not her legion of plagiarism charges, and most of all, not her waffling in the face of direct questioning by a Harvard alum in Congresswoman Elise Stefanik on Dec 5. In true Modern Black Feminist fashion, personal accountability and responsibility for failure go right out of the window, and instead they blame anything and everything else for it - in this case, those of us on the Right of varying stripe and degree. "We" are to blame for Gay having the briefest tenure as president in Harvard's nearly four century history. You just cannot make this stuff up.

Well, let the record show that a plethora of folks on the Left - a number of them Jews, I might add - said otherwise. Consider Jonathan Haidt's excellent piece, "Why Antisemitism Sprouted So Quickly on Campus"(9); or, Steven Pinker's "A five-point plan to save Harvard from itself"(10); or Johnathan McWhorter's New York Times column, "Why Claudine Gay Should Go"(11). None of these gentlemen are shills for the Right, the catspaw of Trump, or had an axe to grind against Black women. Indeed, all three of these men don't think very highly of the latter in particular, and have been quite pointed in their critiques of the former, and aren't known to have harsh words for Black women at all. These aren't middle America right wing hicks; these are Jones' and Foster's peers, literally, who stand in opposition to their twisted ideology in the name of saving a Black woman's hide. Maybe there's some hope for the Academy, after all.

Why does all of this matter to me, you might ask? Well, to be blunt, it's because there has been a concerted effort to paint me and the whole of the Black Manosphere, as virulent "misogynists", or perhaps better put, "misogynoirists", since we supposedly hate Black women writ large so very much. Yet, no one in the Black Manosphere, present company included, has called for the mass aborting of Black babies the way Cynthia G. did (and was finally removed from YouTube and GoFundMe as a result - the same month that Hamas launched its own Sep 11 onto the Jewish people of Israel)(12). Oddly enough, Modern Black Feminists like Jones and Foster, were eerily silent during Cynthia G's multiyear reign of terror, openly calling for Black women to delete their Black male babies in utero. When Black folks, many of them Black women, were up in arms over Just Pearly Things, aka Ms. Pearl Davis, interviewed Nick Fuentes last year and I both gave my color commentary on said interview(13) and then interviewed Mr. Fuentes personally afterward(14), I made it abundantly clear that I did not support his antisemitism and Holocaust denial, that I thought it repugnant and an affront to everything we as Americans stand for, again, the Modern Black Feminist likes of Jones and Foster were MIA. As someone who is in a senior position to represent the Black Manosphere to the wider public, I want those facts to be entered into the public record, as they stand in stark relief to the staunch support Jones and Foster gives to the true enemies of women.

And, as I close out today's post, let me be unwaveringly clear on the matter at hand: Hamas is a well documented terrorist organization. They are arguably the world's first and to date, only such organization to get the mandate of a voting public. And since they won the majority vote of the Palestinian people 18 years ago, their popularity has literally doubled since the Oct 7 terror attacks. I do not support them, just like I didn't support what Osama bin Laden did to New York City, Africa or to the USS Cole. And I stand with the people of Israel and the Jewish people's right to exist, worldwide. My position on these and related matters have been crystal clear and a matter of public record - and so have Modern Black Feminists like Jones and Foster.

Compare, & contrast.

My name is Mumia Obsidian Ali, and I approved this message!

ENDNOTES:

1. "Hamas" Wikipedia

2. "Hatefilled Clementine Ford", Online Opinion, Jan 5, 2024

3. "My Thoughts on Claudia Gay's Resignation", Feminista Jones on Instagram, Jan 3, 2024

4. "What Can We Learn From the Career Assassination of Claudine Gay?" For Harriet on YouTube, Jan 4, 2024

5. "2006 Palestinian Legislative Election" Wikipedia

6. "The election that led to Hamas taking over Gaza", Washington Post, Oct 24, 2023

7. "Palestinian poll shows a rise in Hamas support and close to 90% wanting US-backed Abbas to resign

8. "Antisemitism and Intersectional Feminism: Strange Alliances", De Gruyter, 2021

9. "Why Antisemitism Sprouted So Quickly on Campus", After Babel, Dec 21, 2023

10. "A five-point plan to save Harvard from itself", Boston Globe, Dec 11, 2023

11. "Why Claudine Gay Should Go", New York Times, Dec 21, 2023

12. "Channel calling for aborting Black pregnancies temporarily restricted by YouTube", ArsTechnica, Oct 11, 2023

13. "Is @JustPearlyThings...A Racist?!?", YouTube, Mar 25, 2023

14. "Mumia Obsidian Ali Meets Nick Fuentes: THE EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW", YouTube, May 10, 2023