Progressive Black Democrats are reviving a radical tradition of Palestine solidarity in Congress, challenging Black leaders in their own party and Washington's support for Israeli state violence.
"It is time for the world to recognize that what we saw in South Africa decades ago is happening in Palestine... time for the world to take decisive diplomatic action... towards building a future of equality."
Millennial and Gen Z activists are connecting their struggles at home to the workings of US empire in Palestine, Haiti, Colombia, and other countries.
The same broad coalition that saved Biden’s primary campaign and helped get him across the line in November, could now become a powerful counterweight to the pro-Israeli traditions of the Democratic party.
Reader Comments: Palestine, Israel; George Floyd Changed the World; Society Without Landlords; Military Spending; Chile; Asian & Asian American Books for Children & Teenagers; Solidarity with Palestine Resources; Memorial Day; Music Therapy; more...
The latest Palestinian uprising firmly rejects the conquest and division of our people legally and geographically, into separate, besieged, apartheid parcels of land similar to the Bantustans of Apartheid South Africa.
Reader Comments: Palestine, U.S. Must Pursue Peace; Creation of Israel, Soviet Union and U.S. Communists; Police Unions; Financial Transactions Taxes; Puerto Ricans in NYC; DC Labor Film Festival; Art of Ralph Fasanella; more....
Reader Comments: Palestine - What You Can Do; Covid Vaccines and Herd Immunity; Amazon Union Campaign - What Next; GOP Trump Kool-Aid; Help Send Urgently-Needed Syringes to Cuba;; more...
Reader Comments: Same Boat; Military Spending Still Huge Problem; History Behind "Strange Fruit"; Puerto Rican Studies; Palestinian Solidarity; Labor and the Movements for Peace and Social Justice; lots of Zoom events; more....
Criticism of Israeli policies and expressions of Palestine solidarity, while always to some degree controversial, had long been part of acceptable political discourse on the British left-of-center. That is no longer the case.
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