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===Black Hebrew Israelite antisemitism=== {{Further|Black Hebrew Israelites}} [[File:ISUPK Passover 2012.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25|4% of African-Americans self-identified as [[Black Hebrew Israelites]] in 2019.<ref name=":3" /> Between 2019 and 2022, individuals motivated by Black Hebrew Israelitism committed five religiously motivated murders.<ref name=":1">{{cite web |title=Simon Wiesenthal Center Special Report: Extreme Black Hebrew Israelites |url=https://www.wiesenthal.com/assets/pdf/black_hebrew_israelite_movement-12-2022.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230104050826/https://www.wiesenthal.com/assets/pdf/black_hebrew_israelite_movement-12-2022.pdf |archive-date=4 January 2023 |access-date=4 January 2023 |website=Wiesenthal.com |publisher=[[The Simon Wiesenthal Center]]}}</ref>]] Extremist groups of Black Hebrew Israelites believe that Jewish people are "imposters", who have "stolen" Black Americans' true racial and religious identity.<ref name=":1" /><ref name="George Washington 2022" /> Some of these groups also promote the unsupported [[Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry]].<ref name=":1" /> In 2022, the [[American Jewish Committee]] stated that the [[Black Hebrew Israelite]] claim that "we are the real Jews" is a "troubling anti-Semitic trope with dangerous potential".<ref>{{cite news |first1=Amanda |last1=Woods |first2=Mark |last2=Lungariello |title=Black Hebrew Israelites chant 'we are the real Jews' at pro-Kyrie Irving NYC march |url=https://nypost.com/2022/11/25/black-hebrew-israelites-descend-on-barclays-we-are-the-real-jews/ |access-date=26 November 2022 |work=[[The New York Post]] |date=25 November 2022 |archive-date=26 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221126000155/https://nypost.com/2022/11/25/black-hebrew-israelites-descend-on-barclays-we-are-the-real-jews/ |url-status=live}}</ref> The perpetrators of several antisemitic attacks in the United States have expressed interest in the Black Hebrew Israelites.<ref name="WaPoJersey">{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/12/15/probe-jersey-city-shooting-leads-fbi-arrest-pawn-shop-owner-weapons-charges/ |title=Probe of Jersey City shooting leads FBI to arrest pawn shop owner on weapons charge |first=Derek |last=Hawkins |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=15 December 2019 |access-date=26 November 2022 |archive-date=27 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220927061617/https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/12/15/probe-jersey-city-shooting-leads-fbi-arrest-pawn-shop-owner-weapons-charges/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="WaPoNY">{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/12/30/monsey-stabbing-grafton-thomas-suspect/ |title=Hanukkah stabbing suspect searched 'why did Hitler hate the Jews,' prosecutors say |date=30 December 2019 |first1=Shayna |last1=Jacobs |first2=Deanna |last2=Paul |first3=Maria |last3=Sacchetti |first4=Hannah |last4=Knowles |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=26 November 2022 |archive-date=30 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230330123630/https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/12/30/monsey-stabbing-grafton-thomas-suspect/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Brown |first=Julie S. |date=30 December 2019 |title=Grafton Thomas Complaint |url=https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/press-release/file/1230906/dl |access-date=3 March 2025 |website=www.justice.gov |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250303142933/https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/press-release/file/1230906/dl |archive-date=3 March 2025}}</ref> Between 2019 and 2022, individuals motivated by Black Hebrew Israelitism committed five religiously motivated murders.<ref name=":1" /> In September 2022, the Program on Extremism at George Washington University published a report which said the largest threat came from "individuals loosely affiliated with or inspired by the movement", rather than from formal members of Black Hebrew Israelite organizations.<ref name=":3">{{cite news |last1=Esensten |first1=Andrew |date=26 November 2022 |title=How many Hebrew Israelites are there, and how worried should Jews be? |work=[[The Times of Israel]] |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-many-hebrew-israelites-are-there-and-how-worried-should-jews-be/ |access-date=3 January 2023 |archive-date=3 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230103115838/https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-many-hebrew-israelites-are-there-and-how-worried-should-jews-be/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="George Washington 2022">''Contemporary Violent Extremism and the Black Hebrew Israelite Movement''. Program on Extremism. George Washington University. September 2022. https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs5746/files/ContemporaryViolentExtremism-BlackHebrewIsraeliteMovement090722.pdf</ref>
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