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Late PLO head Yasser Arafat
Why are American Blacks so pro-Palestinian? This support isn't violent but is vibrant. A rainbow coalition of radicals have worked hard to cast Israel as a foreign version of past US segregation.
As UN Ambassador, civil rights legend Andrew Young lost this position for calling for official recognition of the Palestinian Liberation Organization ( PLO) in defiance of US policy.
The PLO was later recognized decades later but Young's single mindedness illustrates the depth of Black support for the Palestinian cause.
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Look back to socialist infiltration of our community for an answer. The Soviets also backed the Palestinian Liberation Organization ( PLO ) and the rest of that bouquet of brutality.
Israel was sold to us as another Jim Crow White country, with an unlikely past alliance with apartheid-era, anti-Semitic South Africa as proof.
This alliance was based upon mutual opposition to Communism and not an admission of Israeli racism.
At my historically Black college I served as secretary-general for a Model Arab League sponsored by an organization promoting better understanding of the Mid East.
They sought to offer a "balanced" view of that complex region. We even had the PLO UN envoy address us.
While there a two sides to every story, the alarm shown by Jewish faculty then, in hindsight, confirms long held suspicions: we were sold the Arab line as impressionable collegians.
It was a blue chip experience all the way: PR; great stipend; fancy awards.
All those perks doesn't change the Israel isn't a Jim Crow country.
Arabs comprise roughly 18% of her population- a few points above American Black demographics. They enjoy equal rights with Jewish countrymen and aren't subject to compulsory military service.
Arabs also serve in the Knesset, the nation's version of England's Parliament- similar to our Congress- By choice, Arab and Jewish communities often reside in separate areas, but this isn't a legal mandate.
Israel is also one of the few countries regionally where women can vote.
Female enfranchisement is hardly the sign of state=sanctioned bigotry. On March 17, 1969, Golda Meir became their first female prime minister.
Odd how I never heard any of that during my collegiate Model United Nations and Arab League experiences. I knew it personally but again note how so little positive information about Israel was shared in those forums.
That needs to change.
Socialists have too much sway in American higher education, particularly historically Black colleges and universities where their foothold is deep and disguised by historic discrimination.
A member of my generation now sits in the White House. His exposure to socialism is far more robust than mine growing up.
Patriotic Americans, especially Black ones, must be national security owls who never sleep. A major tenet of socialism is turning people of color against Israel under the guise of "liberation."
Look at the former Soviet Union's anti-Semitism for evidence of real state-sanctioned racism.
The reason why American Blacks are so pro-Palestinian is we've been misled to see Israel as a Jim Crow country with its foot on the necks of a displaced populace of color.
Masterful manipulation of Black history by those who've always used it against us for recruitment purposes,
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