Almost 14 years after the murder of Yankel Rosenbaum in the Crowns Heights riot, a new drama is underway. It is a play being staged in the city that seeks to blame the Jews for the violence that fateful night in the summer of 1990. Written by the co-founder of the New Alliance Party, Fred Newman, it purports to offer a rendition of the events that “is probably closer to the truth than what is sometimes labeled New York reality.”The play, produced by the All Stars Project, a group closely related to the NAP — and which employs Mr. Newman as its artistic director at a salary of more than $70,000 — dredges up the old canard of a cycle of violence, in which Jews and blacks spur each other to ever greater brutalities.

In 1992, Mr. Newman was quoted by the Amsterdam News as saying, “The Jewish community has abandoned the African-American community. The Jewish community has walked out in the middle of the struggle. The Jewish community has lied and we will expose it.” At the time, Mr. Newman omitted Yankel Rosenbaum, who had been stabbed to death by Lemrick Nelson, from a list of victims of the violence.

Were there any hope that Mr. Newman has changed his line, the play “Crown Heights” puts an end to it. Every violent confrontation in the play is initiated by Jews. The police — who famously failed to stop the black-on-Jewish violence — are dismissed as “Bloated pink faces, in many places, Racist… White law and order stealing Black sons and daughters.” Mr. Newman’s acolyte, Lenora Fulani, runs the Independence Party in New York City, and it was on their ballot line that Mayor Bloomberg achieved his margin of victory against Mark Green in 2001. Many of us will be marking whether the mayor speaks out against this bigoted production.