From Jim Crow to Israeli Apartheid: African American Solidarity with Palestine – Video

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From Jim Crow to Israeli Apartheid: African American Solidarity with Palestine
African-Americans and Palestinians have good reason to join their struggles together in solidarity. Featured Speakers: Aaron Dixon, Jesse Hagopian, and Gerald Lenoir The people of Palestine live daily under the longest continual occupation in the world today. From racist apartheid laws that give Palestinians living in Israel the worst schools, homes, social services, and restrict their free speech, to the settler encroachment on the West Bank, to the blockade on Gaza that has turned it into what many commentators have called an open air prison, Palestinians face brutal oppression from the Israeli government, made possible by funding from the United States. The US itself has a long legacy of racism, from slavery to Jim Crow segregation to mass incarceration today--and a long legacy of Black Americans resisting that oppression and making connections with Palestinians struggling for justice. Interfaith Peace Builders is an organization that has long been dedicated to actively promoting civil, political and human rights in Palestine and has recently begun sponsoring African Heritage Delegations to Palestine. The African Heritage Delegation builds upon existing efforts within the African Heritage communities and will strengthen work focusing on Apartheid in Israel, justice in Palestine, and the growth of boycott, divestment and sanctions campaigns nationally. In a 2007 "Letter to Black America on Palestinian Rights" over 40 African-American activists urged: It is time for our ...From:brannphotoViews:0 0ratingsTime:01:05:39More inNonprofits Activism

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