Toddsterpatriot
Diamond Member
You're clearly flippantly dismissing arguments on the basis of someone being "anti-semitic" rather than on the merits of the evidence presented. There are many sources that point to significant Jewish involvement in the African slave trade.
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Lehman family
The New York financiers who underwrote the cotton economy, including firms like Lehman Brothers, supported the plantation system, counting investment in slaves as collateral.
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Wikipedia
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The Lehman family is a prominent family of Jewish German-Americans
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“Money was earned by Jewish communities in South America, partly through slavery, and went to Holland, where Jewish bankers handled it,” he said. “Non-Jews were also complicit, but so were we. I feel partly complicit.”
Though he holds no official position in the Dutch Jewish community, van de Kamp, 65, is among the best-known Orthodox rabbis in the Netherlands, a status earned through his several books on Dutch Jewry and frequent media appearances."
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How culpable were Dutch Jews in the slave trade?
A nonconformist Dutch Orthodox rabbi thinks it's time for his largely silent community to discuss its robust ties that boundwww.timesofisrael.com
......etc etc etc..Anyone who looks into who were the financiers, the financial muscle behind much of the slave trade, Jews are overrepresented.
What about the Arab involvement in the slave trade?