{"id":37292,"date":"2017-07-07T15:36:28","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T21:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=37292"},"modified":"2017-07-09T05:31:55","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T11:31:55","slug":"adl-expresses-concerns-about-jay-z-jewish-lyric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/adl-expresses-concerns-about-jay-z-jewish-lyric\/","title":{"rendered":"ADL expresses \u2018concerns\u2019 about Jay-Z Jewish lyric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (JTA) \u2014 The Anti-Defamation League expressed concern about a Jay-Z lyric that \u201cJewish people own all the property in America,\u201d but emphasized that it did not believe that the rapper intended to promote anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_37293\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/J-Z.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37293\" class=\"wp-image-37293 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/J-Z-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 20:  Rapper Jay-Z performs onstage during TIDAL X: 1020 Amplified by HTC at Barclays Center of Brooklyn on October 20, 2015 in New York City.  (Photo by Jamie McCarthy\/Getty Images for TIDAL)\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/J-Z-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/J-Z.jpg 880w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/198;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37293\" class=\"wp-image-37293 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/J-Z-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 20:  Rapper Jay-Z performs onstage during TIDAL X: 1020 Amplified by HTC at Barclays Center of Brooklyn on October 20, 2015 in New York City.  (Photo by Jamie McCarthy\/Getty Images for TIDAL)\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/J-Z-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/J-Z.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-37293\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jay-Z performing at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, Oct. 20, 2015. (Jamie McCarthy\/Getty Images for TIDAL)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe lyric does seem to play into deep-seated anti-Semitic stereotypes about Jews and money,\u201d said an ADL statement released Friday. \u201cThe idea that Jews \u2018own all the property\u2019 in this country and have used credit to financially get ahead are odious and false. Yet, such notions have lingered in society for decades, and we are concerned that this lyric could feed into preconceived notions about Jews and alleged Jewish \u2018control\u2019 of the banks and finance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The song, \u201cThe Story of O.J.,\u201d on Jay-Z\u2019s latest album, \u201c4:44,\u201d has attracted negative social media attention for its lyric, \u201cYou wanna know what\u2019s more important than throwin\u2019 away money at a strip club? Credit\/You ever wonder why Jewish people own all the property in America? This how they did it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jay-Z\u2019s defenders say the lyric is typical of his use of exaggerated stereotypes to make broader points about social problems \u2014 in this case, counseling African-American empowerment through emulation of Jewish business leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not believe it was Jay-Z\u2019s intent to promote anti-Semitism,\u201d the ADL said. \u201cOn the contrary, we know that Jay-Z is someone who has used his celebrity in the past to speak out responsibly and forcefully against the evils of racism and anti-Semitism.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"ADL%20expresses%20%E2%80%98concerns%E2%80%99%20about%20Jay-Z%20Jewish%20lyric\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7137],"tags":[3432,553,8635,8790,8795,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37294,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37292\/revisions\/37294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}