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An aide to Martin Luther King, Jr. said Jewish Americans were vital to the civil rights movement in the US — and he understands their mentality to stomp out rampant antisemitism today.
interview in January for Queens College’s documentary series on the 60th anniversary of the “Freedom Summer” for civil rights in Mississippi.Clarence Jones, an aide to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., discussed the role Jewish Americans played in the civil rights movement.He said he understands the anger and anguish of Jews after Hamas’ sneak attack on Israel on Oct.
He tied the role of the civil rights movement to what’s happening today, with rising hatred against Jews and the Israel-Hamas war. For Jews — especially those whose families were touched by the genocide of the Holocaust during the Nazi reign — it’s about survival, he said.
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