Note that the group chants a marching cadence in English, starting with “IUIC”. Haitians would chant in their French patois. Perhaps they are there to recruit their fellow Blacks from Haiti. At any rate, the YouTube video linked in the Reader Context is headlined
Israel United in Christ came to Springfield, OH! Such an exciting site to see! thank you being here!
Danyale Duncan Sep 23, 2024
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which is often wrong, identifies the Bronx-based IUIC as a branch of the Black Hebrew Israelites.
And the Jewish Telegraph Agency wrote about them at length in late 2022, blaming the Black Hebrew Israelites as a group for a series of deadly attacks on Jews in New York and New Jersey in 2019 and since.
Background from the Rantburg archives: The Black Hebrew Israelites are one of the descendant groups of the mystical African-American national separatist movement of the turn of the 19th century that called itself the Indigenous Moors, claiming that they are the actual natives of North America, not the so-called American Indians. Their congregations range from pushing reasonably normal Black self-improvement/self-sufficiency with a mystic frosting to batshit crazy, violent Black supremacist racist antisemites. Nation of Islam is another descendant of the same movement, but claiming to be the true Muslims as BHI are the true Hebrews. The Black Sovereign Citizens movement, which claims that they don’t have to pay taxes or obey local laws and regulations, are another branch — usually encountered in groups carrying unregistered guns or after moving into strangers’ homes and changing the locks. On their Washington, DC school trip Nick Sandman and his Covington Catholic classmates encountered an abusive group of BHIs, just before they were confronted by that obnoxious professional “Native American” activist. |