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Israeli ambassador seeks to exploit Black struggle in US
Gilad Erdan, at right with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has previously targeted the BDS movement and is now seeking to break up Palestinian and Black solidarity.
Last month, Gilad Erdan, Israel’s ambassador to the United States and United Nations, took a trip to the American South to learn about the civil rights movement.
Ostensibly, he learned about Jim Crow discrimination and ongoing racism. Yet he understood so little that he rejected any comparison between American racism and segregation and Israel’s denial of equal rights to Palestinian citizens and military rule over Palestinians in the occupied territories.
In its aftermath, Erdan maintains that activists for Palestinian rights “are trying to take advantage of intersectionality, [claiming] their struggle against Israel is the same as what’s happening here with Black Americans, which is clearly not the reality.”
But there are profound similarities between Israel’s anti-Palestinian policies, the Jim Crow American South, with ongoing current discrimination, and apartheid South Africa.
As Michelle Alexander, author of the highly influential book The New Jim Crow, wrote in The New York Times in 2019: “We must, with as much courage and conviction as we can muster, speak out against the system of legal discrimination that exists inside Israel.”
The Philos Project, recently described at Mondoweiss as “a well-financed outfit that is repackaging a worn-out colonial missionary ideology in a revamped format,” organized the trip for Erdan.
Erdan’s visit, however, comes across as an attempt to co-opt Black leaders and whitewash Israel’s denial of Palestinian rights.
The trip must be placed in the context of the Israel lobby viewing the Black Lives Matter movement as a strategic threat.
https://electronicintifada.net/blog...il&utm_term=0_e802a7602d-33b6d8e53f-299180421
These Izraeli fascists shoot Palestinians just as White South Africans shot Africans during their own , now crushed, apartheid regime. Israel's is an apartheid regime. Their term for it is ' hafrada '
That the USA should support a racist and apartheid regime beggars belief. What is AIPAC's hold over Washington ?