Joshua Muravchik

Joshua Muravchik is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a public policy organization dedicated to preserving private enterprise and limited government.

The relationship between blacks and Jews has deteriorated since the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Although black anti-Semitism was present before that time, it has grown in recent decades. The Nation of Islam, led by Louis Farrakhan, is one source of this anti-Semitism. Various factors contribute to black anti-Semitism, including the fact that Jews are more vulnerable than white gentiles to verbal attacks, making them a preferred target for blacks’ anger.

As the controversy surrounding the role of Louis Farrakhan in the Million Man March underscored once again, the greatest story of unrequited love in American political life may be the relationship between blacks and Jews.

Jews in the civil-rights movement