I’m tired. My fatigue is not because of the path my Walk Across America has taken me to the beautiful city of Shreveport. I must speak clearly about something that has weighed on my mind and heart for too long. My fatigue comes from watching Jewish people being attacked from all sides and seeing those attacks go unchallenged by people who should know better.
On the left, too many black ministers have betrayed the Bible for a political and ideological worldview that portrays Israel as the eternal villain anyway and ignores the barbaric slaughter of innocents, including October 7.
On the right, some prominent voices disguised themselves in anti-Semitism dressed up as populism. They protest that they are only asking questions. They lie that they cannot criticize Israel. We see through their disgusting scam.
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The Jewish people are being failed, scapegoated and demonized on both sides of the aisle, and I will not stand for that. I won’t be silent anymore. I won’t betray them.
That’s a promise.
The Black Church and the Jewish people share a bond forged in fire. Jews helped found the NAACP. They marched with Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma. They died for black voting rights. The names of Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner are forever linked in blood to their brother James Chaney.
Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. addresses a gathering in Lakeview, New York during a tour of Long Island on May 12, 1965.
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Reverend Dr. King locked arms with Rabbi Heschel because they both answered the same prophetic call. The foot soldiers of the civil rights movement sang about the liberation of Exodus because they recognized their own story in the Jewish story. That alliance was not accidental. It was born from a shared and timeless desire to be free.
That history demands something from us today.
Yet too many woke pastors in the Black Church have blinded themselves to this biblical heritage. They have chosen to join the Palestinian cause, not through Scripture, but through a theology of liberation that goes far beyond its actual purpose.
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Author James Cone’s work on Black liberation theology was based on real suffering and real oppression, and in the right context it has weight. But today, very little of that context remains. What we have instead is the collapse of entire nations and entire races of people into cartoon roles.
I have always judged people and nations by character and deeds, not by color. That standard doesn’t change based on who asks me to give it up.
Israel is portrayed as the white supremacist oppressor because of its perceived whiteness. Because of their brown skin, the Palestinians are portrayed as eternal victims who can do no wrong, not even on October 7. That’s not a prophecy. That is ideology.
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Where was the outrage among these black pastors over October 7? Families slaughtered. Children held hostage. Rapes. Mutilations. The most gruesome massacre of Jewish people since the Holocaust. If any of them expressed condemnation, it was done in passing before immediately addressing Israel’s response. This is empathy dictated by politics, not the Bible.
Jesus was a Jew in Judea. Bethlehem is located in the land promised to Israel. Genesis 12:3 does not bow to political fashion: “I will bless those who bless you, and those who dishonor you I will curse.” Psalm 122:6 offers no exception: “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.” These are not suggestions. God’s covenant with the Jewish people is eternal—not conditional on perfect behavior and not suspended when the cultural winds shift.
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Supporting Israel does not mean ignoring Palestinian suffering. It means refusing to demonize a people that God has preserved through millennia of persecution, exile and genocide. It means seeing the full reality of Israel as a diverse nation that includes Ethiopian Jews, Mizrahi Jews, and people of all backgrounds who have faced their own oppression.
It means holding Hamas accountable to a charter that openly calls for destruction, and refusing to let that truth be buried under a narrative decided before the facts were investigated. It also means that both the left and right in America are held accountable for their lies about genocide, apartheid and colonialism.
I have always judged people and nations by character and deeds, not by color. That standard doesn’t change based on who asks me to give it up.
There is a reason why the enemies of freedom have always come for the Jewish people first. Anti-Semitism is not just hatred. It’s a warning sign. Any civilization that has turned against its Jewish citizens has shortly thereafter turned against its own fundamental values.
The same principles that created America – belief in human dignity, the rule of law, and the protection of minorities from the mafia – are the principles that demand we act against this hatred today.
When we abandon the Jewish people, we are not just betraying a community. We betray the idea of America itself. This is not just a Biblical imperative or a legacy of civil rights. It is a test of whether we still believe what we say we believe as a nation and as a civilization.
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To my Jewish brothers and sisters: I see what is happening. I see the attacks coming from pulpits that should know better. I see the attacks coming from political commentators who have couched hatred in the language of free thought. I see you being targeted by the left and the right at the same time, as if the oldest hatred in human history has simply found new hosts at both ends of the political spectrum.
I won’t look away. I won’t be ambiguous. I will not trade our shared heritage for a political moment.
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As I walk across this country, I carry that commitment with me every step of the way. Return to Biblical truth over trendy ideology. Reclaim the Black and Jewish legacy of resilience and solidarity. Support Israel because Scripture demands it, history proves it, and basic human decency demands it.
Unity overcomes division every time. God bless you, and God bless America.
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