A liberal school board president in upstate New York is defending Black Lives Matter’s embrace of Hamas by arguing that Jews are to blame for the slave trade, a long-debunked anti-Semitic trope that Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam first advanced in the 1990s.

Under the direction of school board president Cynthia Elliott, Rochester City School District has disseminated teacher training resources from Black Lives Matter at School, a left-wing group that aims to “address racial justice in education.” After the group released a statement blaming Israel for Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist assault on the Jewish state, parental rights group Parents Defending Education asked Elliott and the district’s other school board members if they will continue working with Black Lives Matter at School. Elliott responded by arguing that the Jewish people’s “hands” are not “clean,” citing the “Jewish nation and their involvement in slavery” as proof.

[Looks like all the anti-Semitic tropes are getting a workout now. This points up why no one should be surprised that Black Lives Matter is anti-Semitic too, as they are very clearly influenced by Farrakhan and other activists of his ilk. — Ed]