Summary
The US civil rights organization (SNCC) whose August 1967 paper “The Middle East Crisis” is treated in Chapter 9 of Palestine: A Socialist Introduction (Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, lines 1655-1675).
Details
- The paper opens by acknowledging the Jewish Holocaust as “one of the worst crimes against humanity”, presents a history of British and Israeli colonization, acknowledges the dispossession and siege of Palestinians and racist discrimination against Arab Jews by Israel, and points to the silencing of Jewish critics of Israel (lines 1658-1670).
- It also refers to the European Rothschilds, attributing outsized credit to the family in Israel’s establishment and repeating an allusion to common antisemitic conspiracy theories (lines 1660-1670).
- Its conclusion: “In the Middle East, America has worked with the powerful organized Zionist movement to take over another people’s home and to replace these people with a partner who has well served America’s purpose, a partner that can help the United States and other white Western countries to exploit and control the nations of the Middle East and Africa!” (lines 1662-1672)
- In the same year its members participated in the International Seminar on Apartheid, Racial Discrimination, and Colonialism in Southern Africa in Lusaka, Zambia, declaring SNCC “not unfamiliar with the problems of southern Africa” (lines 1665-1675).
Related pages
Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, Black–Palestinian solidarity, Malcolm X