{"id":267221,"date":"2023-04-04T07:11:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T07:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=267221"},"modified":"2023-04-05T07:48:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T07:48:56","slug":"martin-luther-king-was-he-good-enough-for-the-jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=267221","title":{"rendered":"Martin Luther King: Was He Good Enough for the Jews?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Laurent Guy\u00e9not<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 The Unz Review March 30, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n

On April 4, 1968, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in circumstances not unlike those surrounding the murder of the late President Kennedy. The name, portrait, and profile of the alleged lone sniper were broadcast almost instantly. As William Pepper, King\u2019s friend and attorney, has shown in An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King <\/em>(2003), the mentally deficient James Earl Ray had been handled by some unidentified \u201cRaul\u201d (possibly connected to Jack Ruby), who had arranged for his housing in a room overlooking King\u2019s balcony at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, and for a gun to be found under his window with his fingerprints on it. The lawyer appointed to Ray\u2019s defense convinced him to plead guilty in hope of getting leniency from the court. Nobody paid attention when Ray recanted three days later, maintaining his innocence thereafter until his death in 1998.<\/p>\n

Reverend King had embarrassed Johnson\u2019s government by his stance against the Vietnam War, and still more by his project to gather \u201ca multiracial army of the poor\u201d in a \u201cPoor People\u2019s Campaign\u201d that would march on Washington and camp on Capitol Hill until Congress signed a \u201cDeclaration of the Human Rights of the Poor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since it is seldom pointed out, it is worth emphasizing that King had also disappointed the Jewish-Zionist community, who felt he had never paid back an important debt. King had received strong support from American Jews\u2014in money, legal advice, and media coverage\u2014and to that extent he owed them his 1964 Nobel Peace Prize. Many Jews had helped organize his march on Washington, DC, which culminated in his famous \u201cI have a dream\u201d speech of August 28, 1963, in front of the Lincoln Memorial. As Seth Berkman recalled on the fortieth anniversary of that historic landmark: \u201cArnie Aronson was a little-known but crucial organizer; Rabbi Uri Miller recited the opening prayer; Rabbi Joachim Prinz delivered a stirring speech just before King\u2019s historic words.\u201dHe also mentions \u201cKivie Kaplan, who became president of the NAACP,\u201d \u201cPeter A. Geffen, founder of the Heschel School, in Manhattan,\u201d and \u201ccivil rights advocate Hyman Bookbinder.\u201d<\/strong>[1]<\/a><\/p>\n

The introductory remarks of Rabbi Joachim Prinz, then chairman of the American Jewish Congress,<\/em> before King\u2019s famous speech on August 28, 1963, offer a telling example of Jewish opportunism: \u201cI speak to you as an American Jew,\u201d Prinz begins.<\/p>\n

As Jews, we bring to this great demonstration in which thousands of us proudly participate a twofold experience: one of the spirit, and one of our history. In the realm of the spirit, our fathers told us thousands of years ago that when God created man, he created him as everybody\u2019s neighbor \u2026 From our Jewish experience of three and a half thousand years, we say: Our ancient history began with slavery and the yearning for freedom.<\/p>\n

There followed a reminder of Jewish suffering from medieval ghettos to the recent Holocaust. Then, just when we would expect a word about the condition of Black Americans, Prinz brushes away the issue: Americans \u201cmust speak up and act,\u201d he says, \u201cnot for the sake of the negro, not for the sake of the Black community, but for the sake of the image, the dream, the idea, and the aspiration of America itself.\u201d[2]<\/a><\/p>\n

This Joachim Prinz upholding good neighborhood between all men, is the same Joachim Prinz who in 1934 applauded the Nazi State for being \u201cbuilt upon the principle of the purity of nation and race.\u201d In his Wir Juden<\/em> (\u201cWe the Jews\u201d) published in Berlin in 1934, he wrote:<\/p>\n

We want assimilation to be replaced by a new law: the declaration of belonging to the Jewish nation and the Jewish race. A state built upon the principle of the purity of nation and race can only be honored and respected by a Jew who declares his belonging to his own kind.[3]<\/a>[4]<\/a><\/p>\n

This did not prevent him from being elected, in 1958, president of the American Jewish Congress, <\/em>the very organization that in 1933 had called for total economic war on Germany. Why would it? In 1934, he later explained, he thought that, it was good for the Jews to support Hitler in Germany. That is what matters.<\/p>\n

We must infer that, in 1964, Prinz thought it was good for the Jews to support MLK. So did Charles Silberman, while extending the analysis to other battles:<\/p>\n

American Jews are committed to cultural tolerance because of their belief\u2014firmly rooted in history\u2014that Jews are only safe in a society that welcomes a broad spectrum of attitudes and behaviors, as well as a diversity of religions and ethnic groups. It is this belief, for example, and not approval of homosexuality, that leads an overwhelming majority of American Jews to support the rights of homosexuals.[5]<\/a><\/p>\n

In return for their support, American Jews expected from King some friendly gesture toward Israel. That was badly needed after the Six Days War. King was officially invited more than once to Israel, but always politely declined (\u201ctoo busy\u201d). According to Haaretz<\/a>, <\/em>\u201cDocuments that have come to light 45 years after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. show Israel\u2019s efforts to woo the civil rights leader\u2014a campaign that never came to fruition.\u201d[6]<\/a> After 1967, Black civil rights activists became increasingly critical of Israel. Many resented the disproportionate presence of Jews. King\u2019s visit to Israel would have broken the movement apart. So King said no to Israel.<\/p>\n

Whether or not King was assassinated for failing to pay his debt (on the order of crypto-Jew Johnson), it is a matter of record that, after his death, Zionists abused his legacy by pretending he had expressed support for Israel in a letter written to an anti-Zionist friend, containing the following passage:<\/p>\n

You declare, my friend; that you do not hate the Jews, you are merely \u2018anti-Zionist\u2019 \u2026. And I say, let the truth ring forth from the high mountain tops, let it echo through the valleys of God\u2019s green earth: When people criticize Zionism, they mean Jews \u2026 Anti-Semitism, the hatred of the Jewish people, has been and remains a blot on the soul of mankind. In this we are in full agreement. So know also this: Anti-Zionist is inherently anti-Semitic, and ever will be so.<\/p>\n

This letter is a hoax. It first appeared in the book Shared Dreams: Martin Luther King, Jr. & the Jewish Community<\/em> by Rabbi Marc Schneier (1999), an other obscene attempt to capitalize on the legacy of MLK, naively forwarded by Dr. King\u2019s son, Martin Luther King III. Although fully proven fake, this letter has since been reprinted in many books and web pages. The Anti-Defamation League\u2019s Michael Salberg used that very quote in his July 31, 2001 testimony before the US House of Representatives International Relations Committee\u2019s Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights.[7]<\/a> And so, once dead, King was forced to give Israel the very support he had refused them when alive. In this way, King\u2019s death was good for the Jews.<\/p>\n

Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n

[1]<\/a> Seth Berkman, \u201cThe Jews Who Marched on Washington With Martin Luther King,\u201d Forward.com, August 27, 2013, on forward.com.<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> Prinz\u2019s speech is on www.joachimprinz.com\/images\/mow.mp3.<\/a><\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> Quoted in Israel Shahak, Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years, <\/em>Pluto Press, 1994, p. 86.<\/p>\n

[4]<\/a> Seth Berkman, \u201cThe Jews Who Marched on Washington With Martin Luther King,\u201d Forward.com, August 27, 2013, on forward.com.<\/p>\n

[5]<\/a> Charles Silberman, A Certain People: American Jews and Their Lives Today, <\/em>Summit Books, 1985, p. 350.<\/p>\n

[6]<\/a> Ofer Aderet, \u201cHow Martin Luther King Jr. avoided visiting Israel,\u201d Haaretz, <\/em>February 23, 2013, https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/us-news\/2018-04-03\/ty-article\/martin-luther-king-jr-s-pilgrimage-to-israel-that-never-was\/0000017f-db2f-db5a-a57f-db6f89ca0000<\/a><\/p>\n

[7]<\/a> Fadi Kiblawi and Will Youmans, \u201cIsrael\u2019s apologists and the Martin Luther King Jr. hoax,\u201d January 18, 2004, on electronicintifada.net.<\/p>\n

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