“Here’s just a taste of the antisemitic Jew-hating crud @KahllidA posts on his personal account — wacky conspiracy theories about Jews running the world and ruining it.”
crud (noun) [krəd] noun informal · cruds (plural noun)
- a substance which is considered unpleasant or disgusting, typically because of its dirtiness. a contemptible person.
crud (sustantivo) [krəd] sustantivo informal · cruds (sustantivo plural)
- Una sustancia que se considera desagradable o repugnante, generalmente debido a su suciedad. una persona despreciable.
Aside from his general apology, Al-Alim specifically retracted his boosting of the Nation of Islam book.
“I want to apologize for my posts about the Farrakhan book,” said Al-Alim, referring to that group’s leader, Louis Farrakhan. “I was wrong. I have connected with educators and community members and have since learned about the issues. I fully rescind that post. It has no place in our schools.”
By early this week, Al-Alim’s personal account on X had gone private, then it was deleted entirely.
Critics also highlighted an image of a “like” they say they found on Al-Alim’s campaign account that was posted shortly after the Oct. 7 start of the Israel-Hamas war. The tweet portrayed the Hamas attack on Israel as Palestinians rising up against occupation, apartheid and ethnic cleansing. It cannot be found at this time on that account.
The original post was from J-Town Action & Solidarity, self-described as a “grassroots collective dedicated to revolutionary organizing & building community power in Little Tokyo.” The image of Al-Alim’s like was captured by multiple critics before it was apparently recently deleted.
Except for the one example he cited, Al-Alim was not specific about any other post that the critics found.
According to an internationally accepted definition, it is not necessarily antisemitic to express support for Palestinians or criticism of Israel or Zionism, the movement to establish and sustain a Jewish homeland in Israel. However, such views can cross the line into antisemitism.
*(This is placed in the story where it got No attention! My post or likes Did Not “cross the line”. There was no reason for the anti semitism allegation to be made against me. People may disagree on issues, but that’s Never a time to Defame or Slander one another. It’s time to Stop the Weaponization of the word “anti semstism”!)
*(¡Esto se coloca en la historia donde recibiría la menor atención! Mi publicación o me gusta no “cruzaron la línea”. No había ninguna razón para que se hiciera la acusación de antisemitismo contra mí. La gente puede estar en desacuerdo en algunos temas, pero nunca es un momento para difamarse o calumniarse unos a otros. ¡Es hora de detener la militarización de la palabra “anti semstismo”!)
The unrelated, sexually oriented likes include at least one explicit image of sex and many suggestive photos. In one, a woman in a see-through halter top is holding a high-powered gun. The images began to surface over the weekend — supplied by political opponents as well as Jewish critics and union members concerned about the union’s support of Al-Alim.
Al-Alim has a long history as a community activist, including as a founding member of Reclaim Our Schools L.A., a coalition of parents, students, educators, labor and community organizations that is closely allied with the L.A. teachers union.