Calling for nonviolence does not mean abandoning the right to armed self-defense. It means the tactical use of these methods in the same way that the civil rights movement did.
The Black-Jewish Alliance was never what it has been made out to be. It wasn’t derailed by gullible African Americans being hoodwinked by Palestinian tales of woe, as Zionist organizations would have you believe, but because Zionism is fundamentally incompatible with the principles of equality and justice that are central to Black liberation politics.
If you want a metaphor for Israel don’t think of Spartan farmer-soldiers, as the Zionist myth would have it — a better metaphor would be 1950s Alabama, with an air force. “The average Israeli is xenophobic and racist on a level which would make a Trump rally go pale,” Yossi Gurvitz writes.