It was the version posted by Ice Cube that appeared on the shirts of the protesters at Friday's march, marking 57 years since Martin Luther King's 'I Have A Dream' speech.The photograph was taken by Jennie Taer of SaraACarter.com, who wrote: "The day was mostly peaceful, but the rhetoric was certainly extreme. Protesters walked with signs and some were leading chants against law enforcement. ... But, I spotted a group wearing an image that I’m all too familiar with that stuck out in a sea of “Black Lives Matter” merchandise. ... The group’s shirts showed the caricatures of Jewish businessmen playing the world as a game of Monopoly. And, in the image, the board game was supported on the backs of Black men."The t-shirts are not the first time black equality activists have engaged in antisemitic messaging. A string of rappers and grime artists have made headlines in recent months for comments suggesting that black people are oppressed thanks to a Jewish conspiracy to run the world.British rapper Wiley last week said: “A lot of what I’m going on about is institutional, deep-rooted, systemic, it’s in-place anyway… I’ve never had a problem with anyone in business other than with some of the Jewish community that I’ve worked with. The Jewish community does stick together.”Links between the black equality movement and antisemitism were highlighted in a July article in The Jerusalem Post by Ted Lapkin, executive director of the Australian Jewish Association, who noted: "On the night of May 30, a rabble bearing BLM placards ran amok through the heavily Jewish Los Angeles neighborhood of Fairfax, yelling “F**k the police and kill the Jews!” Five synagogues and three Jewish schools were defaced with antisemitic graffiti during the course of what amounted to a pogrom." The attacks prompted a local rabbi described the riot as “Kristallnacht all over again.”Lapkin commented: "If there’s anything the Jews have learned from their blood-soaked history, it’s when someone says they mean to harm you, take them at their word. So to those who suggest that we should excuse the excesses of Black Lives Matter (BLM) for the sake of a greater good, my answer is simple: No."I say no because opposition to one form of racism does not confer immunity to criticism over other forms of ethnic bigotry."If you needed a close up of the antisemitic image on their shirts, here’s Ice Cube’s post shared in June with the exact same pic: https://t.co/w9Ocgy7wSo pic.twitter.com/Oseq60RBkm
— Jennie Taer ✡️ (@JennieSTaer) August 29, 2020
Antisemitic mural resurfaces at March on Washington 2020
Two protestors were photographed wearing shirts with the image of an antisemitic mural, championed by former British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.
