Black Lives Matter condemned after activists label Fox News “Zionists” that are “full of lies”
Black Lives Matter (BLM) has been condemned after one of its activists labelled Fox News as “Zionists” that are “full of lies”.
A video appears to show a gathering of BLM activists congregating outside Fox News headquarters in New York City, where a man shouting through a megaphone can be heard saying: “You’re full of lies. You’re all racist. You’re Nazis, you’re Zionists, you’re KKK.”
Stopantisemitism.org posted the video to Twitter, writing: “Obscene antisemitism – BLM in NYC tonight equates Zionists with Nazis.”
Last year, Campaign Against Antisemitism called out the British chapter of Black Lives Matter (BLM) after it claimed that “Zionism” had “gagged” Britain.
British BLM’s official Twitter account tweeted at the time: “As Israel moves forward with the annexation of the West Bank, and mainstream British politics is gagged of the right to critique Zionism, and Israel’s settler colonial pursuits, we loudly and clearly stand beside our Palestinian comrades. Free Palestine.”
Campaign Against Antisemitism responded: “The Black Lives Matter movement should embrace solidarity from Jews. There have been calls for violence against us from prominent BLM supporters with no official condemnation. Now from the official UK BLM account, we hear the lie that fighting antisemitism has ‘gagged’ legitimate debate.”
One week later, Campaign Against Antisemitism produced a video showing how antisemitism in the BLM movement is a betrayal of the legacy of real Civil Rights heroes.
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