Video: Black Hebrew Israelites and Palestinian supporters clash during pro-Gaza march in Chicago



Thousands gathered for a pro-Palestine protest in Chicago on Saturday. However, a bizarre brouhaha erupted between Black Hebrew Israelites and Palestinian supporters.

An estimated crowd of 5,000 pro-Palestine demonstrators marched in Chicago's Loop on Saturday afternoon demanding a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war and that Palestine be freed.

The march supporting Gaza was reportedly organized by the Chicago Coalition for Justice in Palestine – a self-described organization to "mobilize those who seek justice in protest of Israel's violence against an innocent civilian population."

During the march, a group of Black Hebrew Israelites and pro-Palestinian protesters physically clashed with each other.

Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere – a visual journalist with the Chicago Sun-Times – said of the chaotic scene, "Well all hell broke loose between some of the Palestinian protesters and the Black Israelites. Police and organizers did their best to calm things down to varying degrees of success."

LaRiviere said the two groups hurled sticks and bottles at each other. He added that one Black Hebrew Israelite was injured and taken away in an ambulance.

During the confrontation, someone launched fireworks.

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Investigative journalist Angela Van Der Pluym posted the video on the X social media platform with the caption: "Black Israelites / Hebrews fight Pro-Hamas protesters in Chicago. FYI Black Hebrew Israelites believe they are the real Jews, and Jews like me are fake Khazarians. Did not have this on my 2023 bingo card."

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More than 7,000 pro-Palestine supporters demonstrated in New York City this weekend. The protesters shut down the Brooklyn Bridge and Grand Central Terminal.

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Whitlock: Any American who fails to protect free speech is a traitor



A month ago, the Brooklyn Nets suspended one of their biggest stars, Kyrie Irving, for repeatedly failing to properly apologize for tweeting an image of a documentary movie poster.

According to the Anti-Defamation League, the NAACP, Charles Barkley, Shannon Sharpe, Stephen A. Smith, Ben Shapiro, and countless other establishment pillars, Black Hebrew Israelites and supporters of the documentary, “Hebrews to Negroes,” pose a threat so great to Jews that Irving and rapper Kanye West are worthy of deplatforming and silencing.

Never mind that no one watched the three-hour, 30-minute doc. Never mind that most people have no idea what Black Hebrew Israelites believe. Never mind that virtually none of Irving’s critics called for Amazon to be punished for hosting and selling the “anti-Semitic” documentary.

Free speech – the First Amendment – has so little genuine support in our social-media-controlled culture that few Americans think it’s important to protect unpopular and misguided speech. Corporate media want to rewrite the U.S. Constitution. A hypothetical new First Amendment would guarantee corporate media’s right to censor any speech it deemed “misinformation.”

You know, stuff like criticism of experimental medical trials that are trumpeted as bulletproof vaccines.

“Hebrews to Negroes” is disinformation that we must keep from the impressionable eyes and ears of the American public. That’s why no one has interviewed Ronald Dalton Jr., the producer of the documentary and the author of the book on which it is based. That’s why thousands of Black Hebrew Israelites could surround the Barclays Center ten days ago when Irving returned to the court and no one in the mainstream media sought to interview the leader – Bishop Nathanyel of Israel United in Christ – who organized the massive show of support for Irving.

The American establishment desperately wants to control what this country’s citizens think, hear, and believe. This desperation is unprecedented in American history. It signals how far and how quickly we’ve pivoted away from valuing free speech and independent thought in America.

I remember a time when Ronald Dalton and Bishop Nathanyel would be coveted guests on America’s most popular talk shows. Phil Donahue, the talk-show father of Oprah Winfrey, built a massive following in the 1970s, ‘80s, and ‘90s interviewing the most controversial, polarizing, compelling, and misguided thinkers in America.

He platformed Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, KKK grand wizard David Duke, anti-feminist author Shahrazad Ali, and so many more. He hosted shows debating and exploring whether Jesus was black.

We used to really believe in free speech. The American Civil Liberties Union used to protect free speech.

Now the freedom fighters fight for censorship. Establishment elites believe they can determine who should be heard and which opinions are worthy of hearing. That’s why there’s so much consternation over Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter and reinstatement of Donald Trump’s Twitter feed.

And that’s why the establishment has hatched the term “hate speech.”

Speech doesn’t hate. Speech expresses. In a free society, speech must be allowed to run free and express whatever it wants.

The allegedly well-intentioned attack on “hate speech” is just another orchestrated attack on America’s founding documents and the rights of all Americans. It’s all an infringement on the First Amendment. Included in this attack is the move to define any criticism of Jewish people as anti-Semitism.

In 2019, then-President Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis took action to “fight” anti-Semitism. Trump signed an executive order intended to ban anti-Semitism on college campuses. DeSantis signed a Florida bill – CS/CS/HB 741 – intended to curb anti-Semitism. Trump’s executive order and Florida’s legislation were based on the International Holocaust Rememberance Alliance’s definition of anti-Semitism. The definition includes these examples of anti-Semitism:

“Accusing the Jews as a people, or Israel as a state, of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust."

“Accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel, or to the alleged priorities of Jews worldwide, than to the interests of their own nations.”

America’s First Amendment allows its citizens to hold uninformed, inaccurate, and abhorrent opinions. Kyrie Irving can think the world is flat. Nick Fuentes can think 1 million people died during the Holocaust. David Duke can think some American Jews are more concerned with Israel than with America. Aaron Rodgers can think the COVID vaccines are ineffective.

We can’t start legislating what people are allowed to think. We can restrict what people do, not what they think. Restrictions on thought and speech are un-American. These types of limitations foment bitterness, bigotry, and distrust. The limitations create a slippery slope that eventually censors topics as well as individuals.

You wonder why most of the corporate media are ignoring Balenciaga creating advertising centered around sexualizing children? Because the elites have grown comfortable in their belief that they know which stories the public can properly digest.

If they can use their multimillion-dollar influencers to convince you that a movie poster tweet is a hate crime worthy of censorship and suspension, why can’t they conclude that sexualizing children is no crime at all?

It’s Voltaire: “Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”

Controlling what we can say is a means of controlling what we think. Anyone who doesn’t understand the importance of protecting all speech, including speech we find reprehensible, is an enemy of America.

And that might include some people many of us respect.

Whitlock: Kyrie Irving, not Colin Kaepernick, threatens the establishment



Bill Maher, the agnostic comedian, wrote and starred in a documentary that painted Christianity and other forms of faith as a mash-up of the words religion and ridiculous.

Released in 2008, “Religulous” spawned a tiny protest at a Canadian university and muted grumbling in the United States. Back then, in the infancy of social media, before Twitter turned performative outrage into the preferred method of seizing power, no one called for HBO or corporations to discipline Maher.

Fourteen years ago, you could write and star in a documentary with the expressed intention to offend, mock, and challenge conventional wisdom without people demanding that you lose your job.

I’m a Christian. I watched "Religulous" years ago because I’ve been a fan of the Jewish comedian for two decades. I find him funny, smart, sincere, and relatively honest. In 2010, after Maher argued that religious people were “deluded,” I wrote a column for the Kansas City Star that chastised him for, among other things, belittling the faith that inspired my mother, grandmother, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, and the men who sacrificed their lives in the Civil War.

Let’s compare the way I responded to Maher to what’s happening to Kyrie Irving, the NBA star, in the aftermath of a sentence-less tweet that listed a religious documentary – “Hebrews2Negroes” – that many Jewish people say is offensive.

A handful of Nets season ticket-holders sat courtside at Brooklyn’s last home game wearing T-shirts that stated “fight anti-Semitism.” The fans told an ESPN reporter that the Nets should suspend Irving. Many pundits in corporate media have vilified and demonized Irving. Last night on TNT’s NBA broadcast, Shaquille O’Neal called Irving an “idiot.” Charles Barkley said the NBA should suspend Irving for the tweet. Barkley insinuated the league should have disciplined Irving for tweeting out something Alex Jones said.

A sentence-less tweet about a documentary no one is watching sparked this much outrage. Why? I tried to watch it. It’s a bad documentary. It’s boring. It’s impossible to follow. It’s three hours, 30 minutes. I made it through the first 75 minutes only because I’m a glutton for punishment.

The documentarian, Ronald Dalton, is a member of the Black Hebrew Israelites, a group of mostly black men who believe they are the true Jewish people. I don’t buy their argument. I’ve had it explained to me two or three times over the past 10 years. I don’t get it. Mostly I don’t care. It’s America. People are free to believe whatever they want.

Bill Maher thinks I’m delusional because of my Christian faith. So what? I still like him. I’ll still pray that he will be saved and come into enlightenment. There’s a long, never-ending history of Christians being persecuted across the globe. Maher’s documentary doesn’t make me feel vulnerable. It makes me want to explain and testify. That’s what I did in 2010 in my Kansas City Star column.

The only thing interesting about Ronald Dalton’s documentary is the insane overreaction to it. The overreaction makes me want to rewatch it and try to discern why a Kyrie tweet has this kind of importance.

We want to suspend Kyrie from playing basketball over a tweet that doesn’t contain one word he wrote? Really? This makes no sense.

It can’t be the doc. The doc is too easy to ignore.

My tin-foil hat tells me Kyrie is loathed by globalists and their corporate media puppets because the system is doing everything in its power to prevent Irving from inspiring other athletes to think for themselves. The system prefers LeBron James and Colin Kaepernick, athletes who do exactly what their handlers tell them to do.

Kyrie refused to take the jab. That’s his real offense. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell bullied basketball and football players into taking the experimental medical trials that were advertised as vaccines.

Pro athletes have every right to be outraged. The experimental medical trials were at best useless and at worst harmful. Irving refused to be bullied.

Judging by his retweet of Alex Jones, Irving likely heeded Jones’ warnings about the “vaccines.” Alex Jones is a threat to the globalist propaganda machine.

Kyrie is seeking information from outside the approved sources. He’s being punished for that. I like Charles Barkley. I respect Charles. I consider him a friend and a well-intentioned American.

I’m highly suspicious of any broadcaster on television who earns more than $3 or $4 million a year whose first name isn’t Tucker. Anyone making more than $10 million a year – not named Tucker – has been let into the cult. Everybody else in corporate media is basically on the waiting list to join the cult.

They all took the jab. And it’s their job to punish any high-profile person who didn’t take the jab. If Kyrie goes unpunished, the narrative gatekeepers worry that Kevin Durant or Patrick Mahomes or some other black athlete might start questioning the wisdom of his handlers.

I’ve yet to see one gatekeeper argue that Amazon should be held responsible for selling “Hebrews2Negroes.” Amazon, not Kyrie, owns the platform profiting from the documentary.

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At this point in an unfolding drama, should the right shun Kanye West? Perhaps. At the very least, his feet should be held to the fire.