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Jewish NFL player Mitchell Schwartz says DeSean Jackson's anti-Semitic posts came from 'a place of ignorance' - CNN

Jewish NFL player Mitchell Schwartz says DeSean Jackson's anti-Semitic posts came from 'a place of ignorance' - CNN

Jewish NFL player Mitchell Schwartz says DeSean Jackson's anti-Semitic posts came from 'a place of ignorance' - CNN
Jul 10, 2020 1 min, 19 secs

"We have an opportunity now to bring light to (the rise in anti-Semitism) and hopefully make change for the better."

On his own social media Thursday, Schwartz shared his support for the Black Lives Matter and the fight against anti-Semitism.

"My hope is we can use this moment to shed light on and bring awareness to the hate and oppression the Jewish Community still faces while standing strong with the Black Lives Matter movement," he said.

"We can only have change if we denounce racism in all forms."

Jackson's post, which Schwartz and other Jewish members of the NFL responded to, included a passage that claimed to quote Hitler in saying that Black people were "the real Children of Israel," and that White Americans would be terrified to know that they have been "mistreating and discriminating and lynching" them, screenshots published by the Philadelphia Inquirer and other publications show.

The passage is often quoted by those arguing that Hitler was not racist, according to Snopes.com

In a different post, he shared a specific paragraph referencing a Jewish plan to "extort America" and achieve "world domination."

Jackson addressed the backlash in a video posted on his Instagram on Tuesday.

"I just want to first off extend an apology on behalf of me and what I stand for, because you know, I'm one that's fair and I never want to put any race down or any people down," Jackson said.

He also said that he regretted posting about Hitler at all.

"I really didn't realize what this passage was saying," Jackson said in a statement on Instagram.

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