A former NFL player has been freely tweeting anti-Semitic conspiracy

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Published on Aug 11, 2020
Former NFL player Larry Johnson has joined the growing group of celebrities with huge followings sharing anti-Semitic falsehoods and beliefs. On Sunday, Johnson, who has more than 147, 000 Twitter followers, tweeted an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that there is a ''Jewish cabal'' involved in human trafficking, murder, pedophilia, human sacrifice, and child torture. Specfiically, Johnson said that this imagined ''Jewish cabal'' performed better in those areas than African-Americans, calling that a racial disparity he was ''proud'' of. Larry Johnson's Aug. 2 tweet about a 'Jewish cabal'@2LarryJohnson7/TwitterJohnson was a running back for the Kansas City Chiefs from 2003 to 2009, the Cincinnati Bengals in 2009, the Washington Redskins in 2010, and the Miami Dolphins for a portion of the 2011 season. In 2017, Johnson told The Washington Post that he has struggled with erratic behavior, and that he believed it was due to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), the brain disease that has afflicted many former and current football players. The disease is untreatable and affects people with repeated brain trauma. The former football player has been sharing beliefs associated with the Black Hebrew Israelites movement for at least a year, often writing that Jews have stolen their religion. In December 2019, he wrote that people discrediting the movement were just ''whining about Jewish converts not being the chosen people of God almighty. ''Black Hebrew Israelites believe that they are the chosen people and the original Israelites. The movement follows the belief that the Old Testament, or the Torah, is about them, rather than Jews, and that the transatlantic slave trade decimated their religion. In a tweet on Sunday, Johnson called the Bible ''an archived history about Hebrew Israelites. ''Black Hebrew Israelites believe that they are reclaiming their culture and religion that was left behind. Extremist factions of the movement, which is not affiliated with Judaism, consider Jews to be ''fraudulent, '' and often hold anti-white and anti-LGBTQ beliefs. The movement is not inherently discriminatory against Jews. But there are ''smaller detachments of a larger, non-racist faith, '' according to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which tracks extremism in the US. The SPLC has labeled certain factions of the movement as hate groups. ''They mostly trade in anti-Semitism; they view Jews as impostors, '' Heidi Beirich, the director of the SPLC's Intelligence Project, told The New York Times in 2019, but added that the movement does not tend to inspire violent acts like other groups the organization categorizes as hate groups. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the Jewish non-governmental agency that fights hate, has also labeled certain sects of the movement as hate groups. Johnson's tweets also echo the beliefs of the Nation of Islam, which is also designated as a hate group by the SPLC.

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