(Jewish Group) NAACP suspends official who said 'the Hasidics are generally not too friendly'

[Behind the Aegis]

local NAACP official in New Jersey has been suspended from his position for six months after giving a speech castigating Orthodox Jews in Jersey City and the largely Jewish city of Lakewood.

James Harris, the chair of the education committee for the Montclair, New Jersey branch of the civil rights organization, has apologized for his remarks.

Harris gave a speech at a Dec. 30 community meeting on gentrification in which he called Hasidic Jews unfriendly and blamed Hasidic Jewish developers for pressuring longtime residents of African-American neighborhoods to sell their homes, which he said has happened in Brooklyn and Lakewood as well.

Haris said that African-Americans in Jersey City and in Montclair live in “fear of being replaced by these strangers who really aren’t friendly.”

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What a dipshit. He is one of those "anti-Semitism is "against Semites" assholes.

[JudyM]

1. "Unfortunately I used terms and examples that have been *interpreted* as anti-Semitic."

Non-apology that’s a dog whistle feeding into his speech’s assertion of over-sensitivity.