…Well, I think Bibi should start his speech by recalling nostalgically and warmly the relations between Jews in America and American Negroes in the 20th century, with a view to eventually reminding his audience ( and Obama) of all the good Jewish people did for Negroes that led to the great achievement of having finally him, an African-American, elected president! How happy this American Jewish community was, the same community that in 1909 created the NAACP, still the largest self-help organization for today’s African-Americans.

Bibi might remind his audience of how the NAACP’s first president was not a Negro but a Jew, Arthur Spingarn, who contributed his own money to getting the organization on its feet and sharing the Jewish people’s knowledge of but communal self-help organizations wholly apart from the government.

In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled that American apartheid, segregation in the Topeka, Kansas schools, was inherently illegal. The lead attorney for the Negroes was Thurgood Marshall, eventually the first Negro Supreme Court Justice, who was assisted by New York Jew Jack Greenberg whose career in the law was crusading for Negro rights.

A decade later in 1964, three civil rights workers were murdered in the deep south, one a local Negro and two friends, both New York Jews, because that Freedom Summer saw busloads of idealistic white northern college students going south to help fight injustice with, by one estimate, a quarter of them Jews, which was 100 times larger than the size of the Jewish community…