The phenomenon of black anti-Semitism has for some years now been widely spoken of as “the problem” of blackJewish relations. That is a rhetorical diversion of the kind most commonly employed by liberals when they are referring to certain kinds of unpleasant behavior on the part of blacks in order to obscure the distinction between sinner and sinned against. And no liberals have been more practiced at the use of this particular diversion than Jewish liberals themselves.

Thus it was bound to happen that the first book-length apologia for the supreme black anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan published by a respectable firm would be by a Jew of the leftist persuasion. And it was just as inevitable that such an effort would be touted by its publisher as “independent, ” objective,” “fairminded,” and — how could we be spared? — “insightful.”