Coleman Hughes: The Struggle for Black Freedom Has Nothing to Do with Israel
Demonstrators march at the “Palestine to Africa - Palestinian Liberation is Black Liberation” protest in New York on November 5, 2023. (Photo by Maggy Donaldson/AFP via Getty Images)
The belief that Israel is analogous to apartheid South Africa or Jim Crow America has no basis in history.
As the Israel-Hamas war drags on in its second month and shows no sign of abating, many Westerners have drawn comparisons between the state of Israel and Jim Crow-era America or apartheid South Africa. In their telling, Israelis are the white people, Palestinians are the black people, and the ethics of the conflict mirror the ethics of Jim Crow and apar…
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