“To the contrary: he stressed that many in his community are speaking out forcefully. Kornbluh later tweeted a clarification that Jones “did not apologize for alleged Black silence about Kanye.” Ye, nah,” Kornbluh added, referring to Kanye West, before he said, “You’re going to see a change going forward.” However, The Forward senior political reporter Jacob Kornbluh tweeted additional comments that were not captured in the UJA’s apologizes to the Jewish community ‘for the silence of my community’ and allowing ‘an African American icon praising Hitler and Nazis, and we act like we don’t know where that hatred came from.’ But he says ‘the silence is over,’” Kornbluh tweeted. That’s why you have a democracy here because the best in your community and the best of our community stood together. “The reason this country is a democracy at all is because Black and Jewish people have loved each other and helped each other and supported each other and stood up for each other. And it’s time for us to tell the truth,” Jones continued. “The light that we don’t talk about and because we don’t talk about it…the haters say whatever they want to. “We had 300 years of slavery, 100 years of Jim Crow terror, and a bunch of crazy Black and Jewish kids went down one summer and broke the back of Jim Crow,” Jones said, seemly forgetting that Jews are also not a monolith and are made up of multiple races and ethnicities. He said she understood the impact of the Holocaust in Europe and felt the need to fight racial injustice in the U.S., so she participated in Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee-led sit-ins. In a video of the speech uploaded to Twitter by the UJA, Jones detailed the work of his godmother, Dottie Zellner, a white Jewish woman and civil rights activist in the 1960s. The media personality and Kim Kardashian BFF seemingly assumed the role of Black America’s leader when he appeared as the keynote speaker on Monday evening at the Wall Street Dinner, held by the UJA-Federation of New York, a philanthropic organization dedicated to connecting various groups in order to strengthen Jewish communities.
Black media pundits and activists have been quick to drag political commentator Van Jones for taking it upon himself to speak on behalf of all Black people this week with a bizarre apology for the rising antisemitism that preceded Kanye West’s recent outbursts.
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