Summary
The solidarity between the Black struggle in the United States and the fight for Palestinian freedom, the subject of Chapter 9 of Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, which traces its high points to the Black Power era of the 1960s-70s and to 2014-16 and 2020 (Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, lines 1598-1707).
Details
- Its premise is connection, not coincidence: both populations live under political and legal regimes constructed over years to maintain their domination (lines 1611-1625).
- Its historic forms include Malcolm X’s anticolonial writings, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee’s 1967 paper, the Black Panther Party’s Algiers Foreign Office and DRUM’s Detroit collaborations with Arab activists (lines 1628-1688).
- Its recent forms include the 2015 Black Solidarity With Palestine statement, the Movement for Black Lives platform, the Deadly Exchange campaign and the responses to the rescinding of Angela Davis’s award and Marc Lamont Hill’s firing (lines 1615-1635, 1678-1700).
- The intersection is generative: Palestinian freedom explodes the notion of Israeli democracy as Black freedom casts doubt on the United States project, leading those who engage with it to revolutionary conclusions regarding both countries (lines 1695-1707).
Related pages
Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, Khury Petersen-Smith, Black Lives Matter, Ferguson uprising, BDS movement