Professor Griff, Public Enemy, and the Precarious Black–Jewish Partnership, by Jose Alberto Nino
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When Kanye West, more popularly known as “Ye,” recently released a song titled “Heil Hitler,” it was not the first time a hip-hop artist’s rhetoric strained Black-Jewish relations. In 1989, Professor Griff of Public Enemy made antisemitic claims in an interview that set off a media firestorm and reopened deep, historical tensions between the two...
