[Please read in site for formatting etc!] Why Jews Condemned the Life and Ignored the Death of Harry Belafonte
“This is the first time in the history of our people in this country when we have no leader outside the system. The only one who speaks outside the system is Farrakhan. He’s captured the hearts and the imaginations of millions of young Black people because he’s outside the system. The rest of us are in the system. All those young civil rights leaders, all those great leaders—whether it’s Jesse Jackson or John Lewis—we’re all in the system. We’re in the Congress, we’re in the government, and we’re playing their game. We have to be reelected. We have to aspire to the presidency. We are the chief of the army. We have all these titles, but we’ve lost our humanity, we’ve lost our vision, we’ve lost our culture.”
—Harry Belafonte (1927–2023)
The world mourns the passing, at 96, of the activist and icon Harry Belafonte. Among the many honors that poured in were tributes from presidents Biden, Obama, and Clinton of the United States, the leaders of African and Caribbean nations, and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who said Mr. Belafonte, reflecting the spirit of many leaders, “devoted his life fighting for human rights and against injustice in all its forms.” Every Black organization and leader from the NAACP, the National Urban League, and SNCC to the Congressional Black Caucus and the United Negro College Fund expressed their condolences. The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam dedicated a special 48-page commemorative issue of the Final Call to the life and legend of Harry Belafonte.
All over the world the high and mighty shared their memories of a true justice warrior, yet one segment of the “civil rights” establishment was blatantly silent. None of the major Jewish organizations even acknowledged Belafonte’s passing, offering not a single statement of condolence or even a gesture of respect to honor the life of a man who so publicly fought against racism and anti-Semitism at every turn. In unison and apparent collusion, Jewish leaders who claim to be dedicated to “civil rights” simply ignored the life and accomplishments of Dr. Martin Luther King’s right-hand man.
So, why have the Jewish organizations and leaders chosen to commit this supreme act of disrespect to Belafonte and the Black community in their hour of mourning?
In his 96 years Belafonte was unquestionably an ambassador to the Jewish people. His paternal grandfather was a Dutch Sephardic Jew, and he was three times married, twice to Jewish women. He performed in Israel several times and once quipped that he was “the most popular Jew in America” after his 1957 recording of the Hebrew classic Hava Nagila. He spoke often of Jewish suffering, and he was honored with awards by many Jewish organizations. The Anti-Defamation League once gave Belafonte a humanitarian award, but its current leader Jonathan Greenblatt and his predecessor Abraham Foxman said nothing at his death. The American Jewish Congress, Hadassah International, Yeshiva University, and National Council of Jewish Women all gave Belafonte humanitarian awards, yet NONE OF THEM would offer a single word of honor for any of those 96 years that the United States president said were dedicated to “breaking barriers and bridging divides.” American Israel Public Action Committee (AIPAC)—nothing; Simon Wiesenthal Center—nothing; American Jewish Committee, World Jewish Congress, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations—nothing, nothing, nothing. Belafonte performed in Israel and sang its praises, yet at his death there was only steely silence from Israel’s leader Benjamin Netanyahu and his government.
A closer look into Belafonte’s multi-generational history with the Jewish world provides a clearer view of why Jews chose to “anti- Semitize” a beloved Black leader. For many years the mainstream media with its heavy Jewish dominance has suppressed the fact that Belafonte became one of the most incisive critics of many “causes” dear to Jewish hearts, such as racial integration—the Jewish-financed agenda for Black people. Certainly, Jews must cringe when Belafonte remembers the very last thing the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King said to him:
“You know, we fought long and hard for integration….But I tell you, Harry, I’ve come on a realization that really deeply troubles me. I’ve come to the realization that I think we may be integrating into a burning house.”
There is no doubt that King’s “burning house” revelation and his murder soon after caused Belafonte to re-examine the very foundations of the civil rights movement and the Jews that had been its most ardent supporters and allies. Over the years Belafonte recounted a few experiences that very likely sobered his assessment of the people he once believed to be God’s “chosen.”
A Jewish attorney named Stanley Levison worked his way into King’s inner circle, where he made crystal clear the Jewish objective while editing King’s 1958 book Stride Toward Freedom. According to FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr., author David Garrow, Levison counseled King “against including a segment on Black self-improvement and urging that he add a section on registration and voting…” This surreptitious manipulation of King’s guidance to his own people reflects the longtime Jewish hostility toward Black self-help programs like those of Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey,and The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad. In 2013, Belafonte received the NAACP’s highest honor, the Spingarn Medal, named after the Caucasian Jewish man who founded, financed, and misguided the NAACP. As a “leader of negroes” Joel Spingarn was wholly dedicated to the notion of what he called “non-economic liberalism”—a philosophy that steers Blacks far away from an economic self-help strategy for their upliftment. Belafonte ultimately saw the pure hypocrisy in Jews financing a “non-economic” course for Blacks but pursuing a business- centered wealth-building strategy to achieve their own Jewish independence, and he became one of the harshest critics of “integration.” In 1996 he told Dr. Cornel West that..........
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NN SEZ: My title isn't exactly exact, true, but it's as good as the one chosen by this zany author Tingba Muhammad. He and his subject Belafonte have really drunk the kool-aid about slavery et al but managed to get half a brain each regarding the most gigantic political, cultural, economic, religious, philosophical, theological, commercial, educational, financial, ethnic, tribal, racial issue in the world today -- jew supremacy.
It's a really rich article. Most Unz content I start to read, I realize I already know or agree with everything in it and turn to something else. Then something like this comes along that fills in blanks so tangily you want to jump for joy. (I do, anyway -- youse guys mightn't.)
I guess I remember how Jesse Jackson dissed Israel and similar moments of resistance. That was a hellalong time ago, though, and "black leaders" continue to get worse by the day. The good ones like JLP and Larry Elder are heard from but the Al $harpton and BLM types still get the headlines -- fatally so at this point in history. Kikes are still in charge so "the scenery never changes".
The name Belafonte should have clued us there was a Weinstein in the woodpile. Firstly, the phonetic spelling -- it's neither Bellafonte or Belafuente. Secondly the 'beautiful' factor -- the 'bela' part cf. Belmont, Schönberg etc. Thirdly the fact that he was an extreme "liberal" superstar entertainer who spent his long career sticking it to whitey. March on Washington -- there he is arm in arm with Peter, Paul and Mary and even Charlton Heston, alas. We Are the World recording jamboree -- there he is. Etc etc etc. I guess he knew if he pushed the jew truth any harder he'd have been turned into a nobody overnite, but he of all people had no excuse to go on with the peecee racemongering as he did.
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