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The Palestinian Appropriation of Black Pain

(Times of Israel) Joshua Washington - Arab leaders have sought to hijack black narratives to legitimize their cause since the '60s. It's why Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, calls Israel an "apartheid state," though nothing in Israel resembles apartheid. One image found on the Internet depicts recently murdered George Floyd in a keffiyeh with a Palestinian flag behind him, depicting him as a Palestinian martyr. This is wrong on many accounts, as our struggle could not be more different. The Palestinian Authority encourages and incentivizes Palestinians to kill Jews. Palestinians who successfully kill Jews are rewarded with a monthly stipend from the PA. Palestinian children are trained to kill Jews through terrorist training camps and Hamas TV shows. Never has the black community resorted to killing white people everywhere just because they are white. Never have we encouraged the death of our own children for our cause. Never have we ever produced television shows to teach our children how to kill white people. What the Palestinian Authority is engaged in is not a struggle against oppression; it is pure and simple Jew-hatred, and Palestinian leaders will do anything they can to legitimize it including exploiting black pain to do so. We need to stop allowing people who have no real interest in our well-being to tell us how to behave toward our Jewish cousins. Blacks and Jews have much more history that binds us than we could ever have with the likes of the PLO, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, or Mahmoud Abbas. The writer is director of the Institute for Black Solidarity with Israel (IBSI).
2020-06-12 00:00:00
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