The executive director of the National Action Network’s North Jersey chapter is defending the elected official who blamed the Dec. 10 anti-Semitic terrorist attack in Jersey City on its Jewish victims.
Carolyn Oliver Fair this week attacked both Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop and New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, both Democrats, for calling on Jersey City Board of Education trustee Joan Terrell-Paige to resign after she defended the two shooters who targeted a kosher grocery store, killing three people inside and one elsewhere.
Murphy and Fulop “need to shut their mouths,” said Oliver Fair, according to the Star-Ledger.
“How dare they speak out against someone saying how they feel,” Fair continued. “She said nothing wrong. Everything she said is the truth. So where is this anti-Semitism coming in? I am not getting it.”
Founded by MSNBC host Al Sharpton in 1991, the National Action Network bills itself as a civil-rights advocacy group. Like its founder, the nonprofit group has become a go-to stop for Democratic presidential candidates looking to curry favor with black voters. And like the group’s founder, the National Action Network apparently has an anti-Semitism problem.
Oliver Fair falsely asserted this week that the Jersey City shooters were Jewish. In reality, they were not, and one of the shooters had ties to the racist and anti-Semitic Black Hebrew Israelites cult, which teaches that black people are the genuine descendants of Israel and that Jews are impostors. The shooters also left behind a trove of anti-Semitic writings, according to law enforcement officials.
The perpetrators of the Jersey City massacre were killed on Dec. 10 after a lengthy standoff with police.
As for Oliver Fair’s claim that Terrell-Paige said “nothing wrong,” let’s review the record.
“Where was all this faith and hope when black homeowners were threatened, intimidated, and harassed by I WANT TO BUY YOUR HOUSE brutes of the Jewish community?” Terrell-Paige said this weekend in a since-deleted rant on Facebook.
Her comments came in response specifically to an Insider NJ report about efforts by local civic and religious leaders to address the deadly Dec. 10 shooting spree.
The city official also said of the Jews who reside now in the historically black Greenville section of Jersey City, “They brazenlly came on the property of Ward F Black homeowners and waved bags of money. Resistance was met with more threats of WE WILL BRING DRUG DEALERS AND PROSTITUTES TO LIVE NEXT DOOR TO YOU. YOU WILL SELL TO US THEN.”
She then said of the shooters, “They knew they would come out in body bags.”
“What is the message they were sending?” asked Terrell-Paige. “Are we brave enough to explore the answer to their message? Are we brave enough to stop the assault on the black communities of America?”
Oliver Fair’s best defense for her comments this week about Terrell-Paige is that she is grossly ignorant about any of the details of what happened or what was said. More likely, Oliver Fair shares Sharpton’s dislike for Jews.
