UJA Wall Street Dinner mixes personal stories with calls to fight antisemitism
To loud applause, Van Jones repeated, “Ye, nay! Ye, nay! Ye, nay! No more, no more, no more.”
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CNN host Van Jones, the keynote speaker, opened his speech with “an apology for the silence of my community” regarding discrimination against Jews. Jones, who is Black, invoked his Jewish godmother in calling for a renewal of the Black-Jewish civil rights alliance, and condemned Kanye West, now known as Ye, for his stream of antisemitic remarks. To loud applause, he repeated, “Ye, nay! Ye, nay! Ye, nay! No more, no more, no more.”