The History of Black-Jewish Relations, and how it unraveled - with Coleman Hughes

Can the Black-Jewish alliance be repaired, or is it irreparable?

Coleman Hughes, host of The Coleman Hughes Show at The Free Press and author of The End of Race Politics, joins Dan to trace the history of one of America’s most important political coalitions, and how it began to unravel. He looks at the forces behind that shift, from old neighborhood tensions and the Nation of Islam to campus politics and a worldview that treats America and the West as uniquely guilty. And - if the old alliance cannot simply be recreated, what would a healthier path forward actually require?

Coleman's essay on Sapir: https://sapirjournal.org/friends-and-foes/2024/black-radicalism/

Coleman's Book: https://www.amazon.com/End-Race-Politics-Arguments-Colorblind/dp/0593332458

Coleman's podcast: https://www.thefp.com/listen/conversations-with-coleman

In this episode:

- How Black and Jewish Americans became allies

- The tensions inside the civil rights alliance

- James Baldwin’s theory of Black antisemitism

- Why Baldwin’s explanation falls short

- Nation of Islam, Farrakhan, and hip-hop

- Jewish success and the resentment problem

- October 7th and the campus view of Israel

- BLM, allyship, and whether repair is possible

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