African Hebrew Israelites

Fallen Hebrew Israelite soldier posthumously given Israeli citizenship

Sgt. Elishai Young fell in battle in the Gaza Strip in October 2024.

 Sergeant Elishai Young was killed in battle in the Gaza Strip and was a member of the African Israelites community of Dimona, October 20, 2024.
 Minister Gideon Sa'ar speaks during a special plenum session presenting the new emergency government at the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on October 12, 2023.

Sa'ar calls on Interior Ministry to grant fallen Hebrew Israelite soldier's family citizenship

 Sergeant Elishai Young was killed in battle in the Gaza Strip and was a member of the African Israelites community of Dimona, October 20, 2024.

Soldier killed in Gaza had no Israeli citizenship, Hebrew Israelite community says

 Sar ("Minister") Ahmadiel Ben Yehuda speaks at the African Hebrew Israelites' annual New World Passover celebration in Dimona, Israel, May 2013.

How many Hebrew Israelites are there, and how worried should Jews be?


Dave Chappelle: 'Not a crazy thing to think' that Jews run Hollywood

"The list of demands to get back in their [the NBA] good graces got longer and longer," said Chappelle in his monologue.

 : Dave Chappelle speaks onstage at Q85: A Musical Celebration for Quincy Jones at the Microsoft Theatre on September 25, 2018 in Los Angeles, California.

'Fight antisemitism:' Protestors heckle Kyrie Irving at Nets game

According to the New York Post, the group heckled Irving throughout the game, and in return, he gave them a thumbs up and said he was "thankful for you guys." 

 Oct 29, 2022; Brooklyn, New York, USA; Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving (11) argues a call in the third quarter against the Indiana Pacers at Barclays Center.

Jewish community won't 'get pass' on 'anti-blackness,' slavery - US politician

"The Jewish community will not get a pass on their long history of anti-blackness, from their role in slavery to anti-Black American hate, to hatred towards black Jews," said Gregg Marcel Dixon.

 Rapper Kanye West holds his first rally in support of his presidential bid in North Charleston, South Carolina, U.S. July 19, 2020.

‘Black people are actually Jew[s]’: The historical origins of Kanye West’s inflammatory comments

Entertainers and athletes such as Kendrick Lamar, Kodak Black, Nick Cannon and DeSean Jackson have also trafficked in antisemitic tropes about Jewish manipulation.

Rapper Kanye West makes a point as he holds his first rally in support of his presidential bid in North Charleston, South Carolina, US July 19, 2020.

Conservatives confuse Black ‘Israelite’ sects in labeling Ketanji Brown Jackson antisemitic

Ketanji Brown Jackson cited a case a Black sect with a base in Israel, causing conservatives to claim that she had embraced an antisemitic cult.

US Appeals Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson smiles as she accepts US President Joe Biden's nomination to be a US Supreme Court Associate Justice and the first Black woman to serve on the court, at the White House in Washington, US, February 25, 2022.

Deportation of African Hebrew Israelites temporarily denied

The Dimona community obtained an injunction, temporarily blocking Israel from deporting the Israelites, currently considered illegal aliens.

 MEMBERS OF THE Black Hebrews community protest against deportation orders, at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, in June.

African Americans are threatened with imminent deportation from Israel

An open letter to Naftali Bennett, Yair Lapid, Ayelet Shaked and Nachman Shai

 MEMBERS OF THE Black Hebrews community protest against deportation orders, at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, in June.

African Hebrew Israelites fight to stay in Israel

In 1973 the Israeli government ruled they did not qualify for automatic citizenship as they could not prove Jewish descent and had not undergone Orthodox conversion.

THE YOUNGER members of the African Hebrew Israelite community engage in drill team stepping maneuvers

Black Hebrew Israelite shouts antisemitic slurs at racial justice protest

Parts of the Black Hebrew Israelites constitute a fringe group that operates independently of racial justice activists, and long predates and is unconnected to Black Lives Matter.

Philadelphia Police Department, Pennsylvania

The expiration date for bigotry has long passed

Whether a Mizrahi sabra, Afro-Bedouin, Ethiopian or Sudanese asylum seeker, each labors under this oppressive burden and strangling cloud of discrimination.

Soldiers from the African Hebrew Israelite community