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From Ferguson to Palestine’: How Black Lives Matter changed the U.S. debate on the Mideast
By rmrd0000 on Sat, 05/22/2021 - 7:52pm |Black Lives Matter activists recently took to the streets of Indianapolis to protest for Palestinians. In Congress, a lawmaker who cut her teeth as a Black Lives Matter organizer and who has compared her clashes with police to those faced by Palestinians tweeted Friday, “A cease-fire ends the bombardment — not the violence.”
And during the height of the recent Gaza hostilities, the official Black Lives Matter organization called for “Palestinian liberation,” six years after the group’s early leaders took a trip to the Middle East that planted the seeds for the current alliance.
Black Lives Matter, which has grown into a potent political force amid a national reckoning on race, has responded forcefully to the violence in the Mideast to extend its reach into foreign policy, pressing the Democratic Party to adopt a dramatically different approach to the long-standing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Whatever the aftermath of the violence in the region, it has starkly changed the Israeli-Palestinian debate in the United States, shifting it for many liberals from a tangled dispute over ancient, often-confusing claims to the far more familiar turf of police brutality and racial conflict.
“We understand that the liberation of Black people in the United States is tied to the liberation of Black people all over the world, and tied to the liberation of oppressed people all over the world,” said Melina Abdullah, co-founder of the Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter. “Being in solidarity with the Palestinian people is something that’s been part of our work as Black Lives Matter for almost as long as we’ve been an organization.”
That message has reverberated through the Democratic Party in a new way over the past two weeks. That, in turn, is being met by frustration from Israel’s supporters who say the military conflict between Israel and Hamas, a Palestinian organization that the United States has designated a terrorist group, is nothing like the tensions on America’s streets.
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Jennifer Chudy is an assistant professor of social sciences and political science at Wellesley College. She studies white racial guilt, sympathy and prejudice. Hakeem Jefferson is an assistant professor of political science at Stanford University, where he studies race and identity.
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by artappraiser on Sat, 05/22/2021 - 8:37pm
If the change includes inspiring young thugs, mostly male, and nastier than Proud Boys, to come and riot in Manhattan, I think the majority of NYC citizens will say no thanks, not interested:
(Why is it mostly males? where are the females? I think I know, I think I recognize this culture!)
by artappraiser on Sun, 05/23/2021 - 4:22pm
impressive how the meme spreads to Brooklyn
by artappraiser on Sun, 05/23/2021 - 6:11pm
nice riot video I missed:
thanks for all the fish.
Edit to add: this is a valid accusation, mho, in NYC, "both sides" did not do it:
Whoever is responsible, it was very clear that many male pro-Palestinian thugs invaded the city to bring their conflict here,. Just doesnt' work on the rational, sorry, makes most less sympathetic, not more.
by artappraiser on Tue, 05/25/2021 - 2:45pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 05/25/2021 - 11:39pm
Didn't really affect Biden's actions though he's not going to go out of his way to advertise that:
by artappraiser on Sun, 05/23/2021 - 8:22pm
Seems reasonable overall
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 05/24/2021 - 1:32am
Influenced by BLM?
by artappraiser on Wed, 05/26/2021 - 8:57pm