Opinion Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. The relationship between the African-American leadership and Zionism has had an unfortunate trajectory. As Jacques Berlinerblau writes in “Blacks and Jews in America,” his new book: “Prior to the final years of the 1960s, Black civil rights groups were supportive of Israel. In so doing, they were in step with the majority of rank-and-file African Americans. In the 1950s and the early 1960s, African American views toward Israel were generally positive.” As Cornel West once noted, Marcus Garvey, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Martin Luther King, Jr.,...