Arab-Americans Denounce Black Americans For Supporting Kamala

Arab-Americans on social media have been denouncing black Americans for supporting Kamala Harris. Apparently those Arab-Americans don’t like Kamala because she is not sufficiently pro-Hamas. And they believe that black Americans are not entitled to exercise agency, but must follow the diktat of the superior Arabs. In response, black Americans have brought up that little matter of the Arab enslavement of black Africans that claimed many more victims than the Atlantic slave trade. These black Americans are discovering what any black African could tell them: the Arabs are the worst anti-black racists in the world. More on this Arab-Black war of words can be found here: “‘Token Ethnic President’: Pro-Hamas Crowd Launches Racist Verbal Assault on Black Americans Over Harris Support,” by Dion J. Pierre, Algemeiner, August 16, 2024:

Anti-Zionist activists recently launched a barrage of racist attacks against African Americans on social media, triggering an exchange of insults as well as arguments over the Arab world’s role in enslaving Black Africans.

“Black people also wear a uniform and get on a plane and come to our countries and kill us!” one influencer said in a compilation of TikTok posts shared by pro-Israel activist Hen Mazzig. “You vote the same f—king melanated [sic] f—king people to government that sign papers to kill us. I don’t want to hear it anymore!”

Those “black people” who “wear a uniform” refers primarily no doubt, to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, who is black, and who has visited our ally Israel to signal American support in its war in Gaza. However, I don’t recall him “signing papers to kill” Palestinians.

“Keep Palestinians names out of your f—king mouths when you’re trying to defend your decision for voting for Kamala,” another said, referring to Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, who is Black.

My, how coarse and dismissive these Arab-Americans can be, how dripping with contempt for black Americans who choose to support Kamala Harris.

TikTok user “Dan1ahan” charged that Black Americans “switched up 180 on Palestinians and people who are Palestinian activists the second we have a Black woman running for office,” describing the alleged betrayal as “disgusting.” Touching on the upcoming US presidential election, one Arab woman said all Black people want is a “token ethnic president” in office.

Black TikTok influencers descended on the platform in droves to denounce the comments, with several announcing that they intended not only to remove Gaza-related content from their profiles but also to cease engaging in anti-Zionist activity entirely. The conversation escalated in subsequent posts, touching on the continuance of Black slavery in the Arab world and what a young woman called “voracious racism” against African Americans….

The unpleasant truth comes out: slavery was abolished very late in Arab countries. It was officially abolished in Saudi Arabia and Yemen in 1962, in Oman in 1970, and in Mauritania in 1981, and only under terrific Western pressure. There was never internal pressure to outlaw slavery in Muslim lands because Muhammad himself, the Perfect Man and Model of Conduct, bought, sold, and traded slaves. That is why there never was a Muslim William Wilberforce. What’s more, black Africans are still enslaved today by Arabs in Mauritania (over 870,000), Mali (200,000) , and Niger (130,000). Black Africans who have in the last few years gone to Libya, hoping to make it to Europe by boat, when they are unable to pay the smugglers, have found themselves being sold bat auction in nine Libyan cities. The largest slave auction is in Tripoli.

“Zionist imperial puppet,” “imperial and blackface,” and “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” were among the chants yelled by members of the Student Coalition for Palestine (GWSCP) outside the building — a clamoring which could be heard throughout the Elliot School. Thomas-Greenfield was at GWU to speak at an event held to encourage Black youth to pursue careers in foreign affairs. GWSCP protested her appearance because she had vetoed multiple UN Security Council resolutions calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, where Israel has been waging a military campaign against Hamas following the terrorist group’s Oct. 7 massacre of Israeli civilians.

In a pamphlet distributed to everyone who showed up to the event, the students accused Greenfield of being a “puppet,” alluding to the fact that she is a Black woman holding a distinguished presidential appointment. GWSCP seemed to suggest that the color of Greenfield’s skin excluded the possibility that she is an agent of her own destiny.

“For as long as we have been here, we have resisted these systems of oppression, but the United States of Amerikkka [sic] has always used Black bodies as puppets to carry out repression and dissent,” the pamphlet said. It also compared Greenfield to Black enslaved persons who had been assigned, against their will, to work as overseers of other enslaved persons on cotton plantations….

These Arab-Americans drip contempt of Linda Greenfield, calling her a “puppet”— presumably of the white establishment or perhaps, they are thinking, of the “Zionists” who they insist call the shots in Washington.

Why do these Arab-Americans and their supporters harass this black woman, screaming at her to resign, clapping in her face to intimidate her? Could they not have treated her with respect? What was her offense? She had invited the American ambassador to the UN to speak.

That same month, at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, anti-Zionists occupying an administrative building verbally abused a Black officer, whom they accused of betraying his racial identity. “Shame on you!” they shouted at him. Someone else said, “You are Black in America, and you’re not standing with the marginalized people of the world. What does that make you?”

How was that black officer at Vanderbilt “betraying his racial identity”? By not complying with what Arab-Americans wanted, which was for him to stand aside and let them continue to occupy an administrative building. Blacks must always do what Arab-Americans demand.

This war on social media between black Americans and the Arab-Americans who denounce blacks for supporting Kamala Harris has just begun. It can only widen and deepen, as more people on both sides join in the furious exchanges. Here’s hoping that black Americans, exposed to the contempt for them expressed by Arab-Americans, will end their support for the Palestinians and stick to their own issues. They might even reconsider the more than a century of unwavering Jewish support for civil rights, and renew those old alliances.

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