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ZOA: Attempted Assassin of Jewish Candidate Was BLM Activist Who Said-Free Black Killers of Police, and Falsely Claimed Those Promoting Palestinian Rights are Censored

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein and ZOA Director of Research & Special Projects Liz Berney, Esq. released the following statement: 

We are horrified that prominent BlackLivesMatter activist Quintez Brown opened fire yesterday on Craig Greenberg, a Jewish Democratic candidate for mayor in Louisville, KY. 

Some people immediately claimed that Quintez Brown suffers from “mental illness” – the too-frequent excuse used to rationalize deadly attacks on Jews, when antisemitism is a more obvious explanation.

And ludicrously, some people cast blame on “the Right” and Republicans, even though the would-be assassin was neither of these. Independent journalist Andy Ngo explained that a worker “on Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign, [who] is a political operative for Democrats, blamed the assassination attempt by a Black nationalist, #BLM activist suspect on the Right.” Tucker Carlson noted that the Las Vegas Sun absurdly claimed that the assassination attempt by a Black, progressive BLM activist “revealed the dangers of the talk coming from the right” and came amid threats “fueled by increasingly violent rhetoric coming from extremist Republicans.”

Notably, the BLM organization posted Quintez Brown’s $100,000 bail bond. The Marxist, anti-Israel BLM organization has a record of anti-Jewish attacks, anti-Israel blood libels, and ties to front groups for the Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) – a U.S. designated terrorist group. 

ZOA spent hours reviewing Quintez Brown’s numerous tweets and retweets posted during the last two months. The tweets reveal Quintez Brown as a man who embraces Israel-haters, socialism and communism; is filled with hatred for police; and justifies Black violence. Persons investigating Quintez Brown’s motive may wish to consider the following:

1. Admiration for Jew-hater Kwame Ture: Quintez Brown frequently tweeted, and apparently greatly admires the uncompromising, radical “Black Power” and Pan-African socialist teachings of extremist Kwame Ture a.k.a. Stokely Carmichael. Kwame Ture was an antisemite and misogynist who infamously said: “The only good Zionist is a dead Zionist" and “The only position for women in SNCC is prone”; and supported Fatah terrorist murderers as engaged in a “just struggle.”
2. Anti-Israel retweet: Brown falsely retweeted violence-promoting BLM activist Bree Newsome’s tweet: “Some of the most intense censorship in this country is around people who speak up for Palestinian rights. If y’all care so much about free speech, put your thumbs to work on that.”

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