Under the headline "Yes, Let's 'Never Forget' but Let's Also Remember the Black Holocaust" (Huffington Post), Sophia Erbo engages in the most despicable antisemitic journalism: Jews are powerful in both Britain and the UK, Israel is powerful and has very powerful allies.
"For Jewish people, there can be no more victim mentality, no rush to all blame slights and injustices on anti-semitism. Perhaps it's this (what can be perceived as) victim mentality, that causes certain other minority groups to feel a resentment that can be mistaken for, or even turn into, anti-semitism."
Let's repeat that: Jews cannot complain about injustices, because it causes resentment and antisemitism.
Of course, she realized it might sound antisemitic, so she put in the regular disclaimer: She's not. And she has a Jewish friend.
"I am only pointing out that Jews don't have a monopoly on suffering - nor am I saying that they they claim to."
But, she still decided to use the one day dedicated to the persecution of Jews by the Nazis, as a platform to discuss Black suffering.
Apparently, a lot of people disagreed about the antisemitism part, because she felt she had to write an apology: "Why I Should Have Chosen My Words More Carefully When Talking About the Holocaust"
She didn't mean to sound antisemitic, and she really doesn't think badly of Jews. I actually believe her. Like many other antisemites, it's so ingrained in her, that she doesn't even notice it. She really doesn't want to denigrate Jews, she just does.
Anyway, she could have used Martin Luther King Day as a platform to talk about Black suffering. But why go for the obvious?
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