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Rula Jebreal went after Hakeem Jeffries over AIPAC and Israel. Then she used language that had Democrats asking: Ma’am, what are you doing?
There are plenty of ways to criticize Hakeem Jeffries. You can go after his politics, his positions on Israel, his relationship with AIPAC or pretty much anything else about the House Democratic leader’s record. But calling a Black man an “AIPAC monkey” and an “errand boy” just set off every alarm bell in the building—and that is exactly what happened.
Afro-Palestinian journalist Rula Jebreal made the comments while appearing on progressive commentator Wajahat Ali’s podcast The Left Hook, where she was ripping into Jeffries over his support for Israel and his ties to AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobbying organization. Jebreal said Jeffries was “bought and paid by AIPAC” before dropping the “monkey” reference and then insisting she did not mean it in a racist way.
She followed that up by calling Jeffries an “errand boy.” When Ali pointed out the obvious racial connotations of calling a Black person a monkey, Jebreal attempted to explain that she was referring to the familiar image of the three monkeys who cannot see, hear or speak.
That explanation did not exactly calm the waters.
The Congressional Black Caucus condemned the remarks, saying there is no non-racist way to call a Black man a “monkey” or “errand boy.” Jebreal later apologized “unconditionally” for the language while maintaining her criticism of Jeffries and AIPAC.
And social media was not kind.
A Palestinian Journalist Called Hakeem Jeffries An “AIPAC Monkey” & It Got Ugly was originally published on cassiuslife.com
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