Black people in the United States inhabit a unique and precarious space in discussions of the horrible recent events in the Middle East.
In the 1950s, the wave of decolonization was sweeping Africa and the Black civil rights struggle in the United States was picking up steam. According to, the battle for Algerian independence from France was a thorny issue for expat Black Americans. They saw themselves as refugees from America’s racism, yet they could be expelled by France for championing the Algerian cause.
I’ve had conversations with White, Jewish friends who are perplexed by, and resistant to, suggestions that the conflict between Israel and Palestinians has anything to do with race issues, or the dreaded “d” word: decolonization. A recent New York Times article talks about theabout being placed in the same category with whiteness.
We know the West deeper than it knows itself. Today’s violence is a legacy of the British Empire’s strategy to “,” by which a small island of European colonizers used strife as a weapon to enhance their power. Colonies where people fought among themselves could be ruled from a distance using relatively little force.
“The state of Israel was not created for the salvation of the Jews; it was created for the salvation of the Western interests. … The Palestinians have been paying for the British colonial policy of ‘divide and rule’ and for Europe’s guilty Christian conscience for more than thirty years.”Given that many countries around the world were either colonized by the British or experienced U.S.
We understand and lament that Black taxpayer money pays for gas and bullets used here and in Gaza. We see U.S. money going to war instead of our poor. We are expected to take pride in U.N. ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, even though she vetoed a cease-fire motion at the United Nations, because, you know, representation.Meanwhile, Black people can be discredited as antisemitic and punished simply for advocating justice for Palestinians.
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