[The Black Panther Party - The Anti-Semitic and Anti-Israel Component]
Extent and Medium
1 electronic resource (10 pages)
Creator(s)
- American Jewish Committee. Trends Analyses Division
Scope and Content
The file contains a typewritten document of 9 pages on the anti-Semitic and anti-Israel positions of the Black Panther Party. The document’s author is not mentioned on the document, but it is dated January 23, 1970. A handwritten note is found on top of the first page, referring to the American Jewish Committee. While the document itself does not refer to any author, it is Milton Ellerin, then the director of the American Jewish Committee’s Trends Analysis Division, who wrote this report. The text aims to inform the public on the Black Panther Party’s anti-Israel inspired internationalist program that is less known than the Party’s America-related activities. The text locates the Black Panther Party and its activists Bobby Seale, Huey P. Newton, and Eldridge Cleaver ideologically close to other left wing inspired revolutionary groups, and especially to the Palestinian Al-Fatah. Furthermore, the text gives various examples of anti-Semitic content and Al-Fatah supporting comments found in the Party’s publications and made by its representatives.
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Note(s)
Electronic access only
For the information regarding the actual author of the document, Milton Ellerin, see: Seth Forman, Blacks in the Jewish Mind. A Crisis of Liberalism, New York: New York University Press, 1998, p. 255, n.101.
Electronic text and image data Jerusalem Yad Vashem 2015
Title viewed: 29/12/2020
People
- Black Panther Party
- Cleaver, Eldridge, 1935-1998
- Newton, Huey P.
- Seale, Bobby, 1936-
Subjects
- Jewish organizations--United States--History--20th century.
- Antisemitism--United States--History--20th century.
- African Americans--Political activity--History--20th century.
- African Americans--Relations with Jews.
- Minorities--Civil rights--United States--History--20th century.