<div dir="ltr">Yes--and the Durham NC city council recently passed a resolution prohibiting such relationships.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 11:05 AM, David Enstrom <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daenstrom@gmail.com" target="_blank">daenstrom@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Thanks, David. I was not aware of the police exchange (as well as other points).<div><br></div><div><a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/09/15/police-israel-cops-training-adl-human-rights-abuses-dc-washington/" target="_blank">https://theintercept.com/2017/<wbr>09/15/police-israel-cops-<wbr>training-adl-human-rights-<wbr>abuses-dc-washington/</a></div><div><br><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 10:46 AM, David Green via Peace-discuss <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" target="_blank">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.<wbr>net</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div>(Although I would question the lumping in together of black radicals and black nationalists) - DG</div><div><br></div><div><h1 class="m_-229528776264718228m_-4728657640751580694gmail-title" id="m_-229528776264718228m_-4728657640751580694gmail-page-title">Sundiata Cha-Jua/Real Talk | I still see us: African-American solidarity with Palestine</h1>
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<p>Do African-American radicals
still support the Palestinian struggle? Alaina Morgan, a scholar of
Islam in the African Diaspora, recently posed this question regarding
black radicals' alleged silence in the face of the Israeli slaughter of
Palestinians during the "Great March of Return" protests between the
Land Day (March 30) and Al-Nakba (Day of Catastrophe, May 15).</p>
<p>This alleged silence would contrast sharply with African-American
radicals' response in 2014. Then, in the wake of the Ferguson and
Baltimore uprisings, a coalition of radical black organizations issued
the "When I See Them, I See Us" video connecting the police killings of
African-Americans with the Israeli military killings of Palestinians.</p>
<p>Bill Fletcher Jr., a senior scholar at the Institute of Policy
Studies who led a delegation of African-American activists to occupied
Palestine compared it to being in apartheid South Africa or the pre-1965
U.S. South. He observed, "It felt like being in a huge prison."</p>
<p>Silence would diverge from the history of African-American engagement
with the Palestinian question. The roots of African-American
involvement with Palestine go back to Israel's formation.</p>
<p>Ralph Bunche, an African-American, led the United Nations Special
Committee on Palestine, its secretariat on the Palestine Question and
the negotiations that produced the armistice between the Zionists and
Arab states.</p>
<p>Due to his concern for the Palestinians, Bunche opposed the
establishment of a Jewish state, failing that he worked to "restrict"
Israel's sovereignty and to protect Arab interests. A former Marxist,
the then liberal Bunche identified with both the Jews and the Arabs.
Stating, "I know the flavor of racial prejudice and racial persecution,"
and he added, "A wise Negro can never be an anti-Semite." Yet, Bunche
feared the fate of the Palestinians under a partition, so he worked
unsuccessfully against an independent Israel.</p>
<p>By the mid-1960s, as black nationalism and radicalism became more
prominent, some African-Americans began to condemn Israel as a white
settler colony. In 1964, Malcolm X asked, "Did the Zionists have the
legal and moral right to invade Arab Palestine, uproot Arab citizens
from their homes and seize all Arab property for themselves just based
on the 'religious' claim that their forefathers lived their thousands of
years ago?"</p>
<p>Malcolm's perspective grew exponentially after the 1967 Arab-Israeli
War. During the Black Power era, Bunche's attempt at an even-handed
approach was replaced among the most progressive sectors of Afro-America
with strong support for the Palestinian cause.</p>
<p>In part, the shift was motivated by Israel's vicious repression of
the Palestinians and its imperialist excesses during the war. In part,
it was the product of radical African-Americans accepting the United
Nation's interpretation of Zionism as a form of racism. And it was
partly due to U.S. blacks' belief that they shared a common experience
of colonialism with the Palestinians. They experienced settler
colonialism and African-Americans internal colonialism. Thus, since the
1967 Arab-Israeli War, African-American radicals have routinely voiced
solidarity with the Palestinian struggle.</p>
<p>At both the 1967 Black Power Conference and the 1972 Black National
Political Convention, more than 1,000 and 5,000 delegates, respectively,
affirmed resolutions supporting the Palestinian struggle.</p>
<p>Huey P. Newton, leader of the Black Panther Party, best stated the
black radical position. In 1970, Newton offered a complex analysis in
which he argued, "We would like to make it clear the Black Panther Party
is not anti-Semitic ... As far as the Israeli people are concerned, we
are not against the Jewish people; we are against that government that
would persecute the Palestinian people ... we support the Palestinian's
just struggle for liberation 100 percent."</p>
<p>In fact, if anything, support has grown stronger as African-Americans
have learned about relationships between the Israeli military and U.S.
police. Since 2001, the Israeli military has trained thousands of U.S.
police in urban warfare. This provides a direct link between the two
colonized peoples.</p>
<p>Philosophically and politically, black radicals have not moved from the Newton location.</p><div class="m_-229528776264718228m_-4728657640751580694gmail-insertAdRight">
<p>For instance, Fletcher, a former leader of the Black Radical
Congress, has consistently defended the Palestinian struggle, including
condemning the most recent Israeli repression during "the Great March of
Return." The New Afrikan Peoples Organization, the Malcolm X Grass
Roots Movement, perhaps the leading black nationalist organizations and
the Black Alliance for Peace have all issued powerful statements
condemning the Israeli massacres. Contrary to silence, black radicals
have continued to declare support for the Palestinian liberation
movement.</p>
<p>The problem is not silence, but that black radicals and nationalists
are marginalized from the mainstream media. Their statements are not
reported, and their leading activists are not interviewed on CNN or
MSNBC. The exclusion and marginalization of black radicals and
nationalists does not reflect their presence or influence in the
African-American community. Black radicals and nationalists greatly
outnumber black conservatives. Yet, representatives of an ideology that
represents 2 to 4 percent of the black community is routinely
represented in mainstream media.</p>
<p>No, black radicals have not lost their voice, you just have to look hard for their viewpoints.</p>
<p><em>Sundiata Cha-Jua is a professor of African-American studies and
history at the University of Illinois and is a member of the North End
Breakfast Club. His email is <a href="mailto:schajua@gmail.com" target="_blank">schajua@gmail.com</a>.<span></span></em></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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