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Philadelphia Jewish federation says it wont cooperate with local NAACP because of its leaders anti-Jewish postsThe Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia said it will not work with the local chapter of the NAACP over an alarming amount of bigoted and anti-Jewish sentiments on his social media channels and the mosque he leads.
Rodney Muhammad still has yet to fully apologize for his most recent actions, the federation said in a statement updated earlier this week.
The statement also said that while the federation would continue to work with the national office of the NAACP and other local chapters, our obligation to oppose hate and discrimination will prevent us from working with the Philadelphia chapter while Mr. Muhammad is employed there.
Last month, Muhammad posted a meme on his public Facebook page known as the Happy Merchant, an image that the Anti-Defamation League says is commonly used by white supremacists. The meme included photos of Ice Cube, DeSean Jackson and Nick Cannon, Black celebrities who recently posted anti-Semitic comments on social media, and the quote To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize, falsely attributed to French philosopher Voltaire but which originated with Kevin Strom, an American neo-Nazi. (Jackson and Cannon have apologized.)
The post was later removed.
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Good! Glad they are taking a stand.
Behind the Aegis
(53,922 posts)Imagine the following scenario. The regional director of a mainstream Jewish organization in a city that is home to sizable Jewish and black communities starts sharing ugly, racist caricatures of African-Americans on social media. In a speech at a local synagogue, this same person denounces the influence of African-Americans on our broader culture as Satanic. Then, when this outrageous behavior becomes the subject of media attention, that individual refuses to resign from their post and even retains the backing of their organization.
You cant seriously imagine something like this because it wouldnt happen outside of an alternate universe. The core ethics of every American Jewish organization would be utterly violated by such expressions of naked racial hatred, and the person responsible would be suspended immediately, and most likely, fired. That is how it should be.
Unfortunately, the inverse version of this imagined example is all too real. In Philadelphia, the local president of the NAACP, Rodney Muhammad, has offered only a grudging semi-apology, alongside an adamant refusal to step down from his post after a grotesquely anti-Semitic image that he shared on his Facebook page garnered wider attention. In the two-week long furor that followed, the NAACP remained mum on Muhammads provocations at the same time as Pennsylvanias governor, its attorney general, and local black and Jewish leaders were calling on Muhammad to do the right thing and step down.
Recently, the NAACP finally broke its silence. In a statement that was emailed to the Philadelphia Tribune, its national spokeswoman, Austyn Ross, relayed that the organizations national leadership was saddened and deeply disappointed by the harm caused by Mr. Muhammads actions and that Muhammad now recognizes the offensive nature of the imagery and post.
Hate speech has no place at the NAACP, and such language and imagery are reprehensible, Ross said in the statement.
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