Shaun KingVerified account

Well, I’m a pro-Palestine Black Jew who would like you to let go of Farrakhan because he’s bad for Black women. And you know that. There are other people who have called on you to do this for other reasons. You could ignore Greenblatt and listen to us.

Let go? What are you even talking about? This is exactly what I’m talking about. I have no connection to him. Never met him. This is being forced on some of us for no reason whatsoever.

Shaun, you defended him in pretty clear terms just a couple of months ago. I think you need to stop doing things like that AND if you are going to be talking about him, it should be about how problematic he is. That's what I meant.

I did not. Maybe something I said was taken out of context.

whether or not you denounce farrakhan is your business. but continually bringing palestinian rights into a conversation about an overtly anti-semitic minister and his view of american jews is a form of antisemitism.

You don’t see the broader conversation in my inbox and throughout my mentions. They aren’t conflated in your mind, but they are absolutely being conflated by so many others. People are literally saying to me that “you defend Hamas and love Farrakhan because you hate Jews” - wild.

Sean, you know I love you and deeply respect your work. This issue is complicated and Twitter can barely do it justice, which is why I long for a forum where we can get Black & Jewish progressives together in a space to have this conversation in person. But in the meantime 1/

Again, again, again. I have nothing to do with this man. I loathe anti-Semitism and fight against it.

Maybe I'm missing the origins of this conversation as I just picked up on it again after this one tweet. So random folks are asking you to denounce him apropos of nothing?

Precisely. Calls for me to stop my support are completely artificial. Based on absolutely nothing.

It wasn’t bc you tweeted at Greenblatt about his Farrakhan piece saying that speaking out agst Israel was more important today? I thought that’s what folks were distraught about. I’m still confused!

Did you read the piece or not? He is very gently telling a friend, someone he admires, Mallory, that her friend Farrakhan is problematic because he is anti-semitic. And he's telling her, I know it's hard to see that in a friend, but you've got to see it and confront it.

And maybe she does agree with some of his statements, my point is Shaun knows plenty who Farakahan is and considers him a friend