Mahmoud Abumayyaleh’s family business called the cops on the Black man George Floyd for passing a counterfeit $20 that led to his murder by a Minneapolis police officer.

Had it been a Jewish family business calling the cops it would likely had made international headline news.  Even so, Jewish businesses and synagogues have been looted, desecrated, and set ablaze in the riots that have followed Floyd’s death.  Many have been vandalized with graffiti attacking Israel.

During the time of Dr. Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement in the United States,  many in the Jewish community joined Black Americans in protests and courageous acts of civil disobedience; some were murdered.  This is history has largely been forgotten.

 

 

Palestinian-American Owner of Cup Foods Called Cops on George Floyd over Counterfeit $20

Mahmoud Abumayyaleh, a.k.a. Mike, is the owner of Cup Foods at 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He and his three sons, Samir, Adam, and Mahmoud, bought the store in 2012. Last Monday, one of the Abumayyalehs’ employees lit the match that ignited a week-long riot in 25 cities.

The employee in question (his or her identity are kept secret in light of the numerous death threats posted on social media) caught the soon-to-be-martyred George Floyd, 46, an African American customer, trying to pay with a counterfeit $20 bill. So they called the cops on him.

The rest is well videotaped history: after handcuffing him, Minneapolis police officers positioned Floyd at the curb, and one of them placed his knee on his neck until he suffocated. Floyd became one of very few Americans to receive the death penalty for passing a bad bill.

According to Ali Harb, reporting for the Middle East Eye, Arab Americans are now debating their role in the midst of African American communities where Arab small businessmen have replaced Jewish and Asian store owners. Indeed, according to Harb, some Arab Americans advocate not reporting black crime to the police because of the unknown consequences of such complaints.

“Mike” Abumayyaleh told Sahan Journal (which claims it is “the only independent, 501(c)(3) nonprofit digital newsroom dedicated to providing authentic news reporting for and about immigrants and refugees in Minnesota”): “We stand for Black Lives Matter. We are against abuse of power and racial injustice. We have a system that is broken, and it must be fixed.”

Meanwhile, a spokesman for the store, Jamar B. Nelson, said “there have been countless death threats. They threatened to do harm to the store, and they threatened to do bodily harm to individuals in the store.”

One post on the store’s Facebook page read: “Count your days, you bastards will die slowly.”

According to Nelson, police are not only called to the store in serious situations, which, apparently, includes bad money. “We take counterfeit extremely seriously,” Nelson maintained. “We train employees that when they come in with any type of false document, protocol is to notify the authorities.”

Jaylani Hussein from the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), suggested “we need to be focused on the four police officers and having them be jailed with no bail until full charges are brought against them” – and not on the hapless Arab store owners who called them in.  […]

Reporter Ali Harb stressed the political cooperation between Arabs and Blacks in America, most notably over hatred for Israel. He mentioned Angela Davis, Cornel West and Marc Lamont Hill’s support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, and in 2014, Davis’ and many other African-American leaders support of Palestinian terrorist Rasmea Odeh who failed to disclose to US immigration authorities her role in the murder of two Jewish students in a 1969 Jerusalem Supermarket bombing.

But Arab racists apparently fail to recognize these Black contributions to the Palestinian cause, and continue to loath the black patrons of Arab stores in the ghetto. Or, as Abudayyeh told MEE: “There are horror stories about how people in the Black community are treated by our business owners and by the security they hire.” And if this reminds you of the Jewish experience of the 1950s and ’60s, turns out there’s an Arabic equivalent to the infamous “Shvartze” slur – it’s “Abeed” and it means slaves. As in the slaves Arab merchants sold in the New World for several centuries.

Ouch…

See:

 

10 Facts About The Arab Enslavement Of Black People Not Taught In Schools | Atlantic Black Star

The Veiled Genocide – Der verschleierte Völkermord – Le génocide voilé | Tidiane N’Diaye exposes Muslim slave trade in Africa (German Video – English subtitles)

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Remembered – a pro-Israel Legacy (in 5 minutes) | Dumisani Washington, Director for the Institute for Black Solidarity with Israel

Angela Davis’s hostility towards Israel not shared by Dr. King | Pastor Dumisani Washington sets the record straight

Cesar Chavez supported Israel – Condemned Anti-Zionism

German-Egyptian Scholar Hamed Abdel-Samad: Arabs Enslaved Africans More Than Any Other Nation Did [Video 4:06]

Another Muslim family caught keeping slaves in U.S. | Texas Judge Orlando Garcia bans Muslim couple from United States – Why not prison?

“Black Lives Matter is our campaign” admits Nihad Awad, Executive Director, CAIR جماعة الاخوان المسلمين — Islamic Exploitation of Africans and their descendants comes to America

1949 American Jewish Congress, Negro Organization Issue Joint Survey on Civil Rights

1953 Supreme Court Urged to Keep Ban on Racial Restrictive Covenants

1955 Negro Jewish Leaders Support Israel Bonds at Harlem Church Rally

1956 Rabbinical Students Protest Arrest of Negroes in Alabama Dispute

1962 Jewish Groups Urge Investigation of Destruction of Negro Church

1962 Anti-Jewish Attitudes Found Among Negro College Students

1963 Negro Anti-Semitism Deplored; Jewish Efforts for Negro Equality Cited

1963 Twenty Conservative Rabbis Fly to Birmingham to Back Negro Demands

1963 San Francisco Jews Back Full Righs for Negroes; Aid Food Campaign

1963 ADL Backs Civil Rights Bill; Stresses Legitimate Negro Grievance

1963 Jews & Christians, White & Negro Seen United in Civil Rights March

1964 Jewish Organizations Lauded by Negro Leader at NAACP Parley

1964 Rev. Martin Luther King Lauds Role of Jews in Fight for Negro Rights

1965 Negro Marchers from Selma Wear Yarmulkes in Deference to Rabbis

1965 High US Official Says Anti-Semitism Noted Among Negro Businessmen

1966 Negro-Jewish Relations Discussed at Convention of Jewish Congress

1966 Negro Leader Appeals to Jews to Back Negro Cause Despite Anti-Semitism

1967 Prominent Negroes Condemn Negro Anti-Semitism; Quit the ‘Liberator’

1967 Negro Daily Tells Black Power Advocates That Jews Battle for Negro Rights

1968 NCRAC Parley Opens With Appeal to Jews to Remain Active in Negro Rights Struggle