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The Blacks and the Jews
In his memoir, horwit says that jews had funded the civil rights movement and devised its legal strategies. Two of their sons, schwirner and goodman, had been murdered for their efforts. But even while these tragic events were still fresh, the black leaders of the movement had unceremoniously expelled the jews from their ranks. When israel was attacked in 19 67 by a coa on of arab states calling for its annihilation, the same black leaders threw their support to the arab aggressors. Horwit asks: Why did we think it was all right, even noble, to operate according to standards so different from those that governed others?