SNCC veteran Dorothy Zellner speaks to Phil Weiss about the threat of fascism in the U.S., organizing for Palestine within Jewish communities, and the backlash Jews can face in their own families for criticizing Israel.
Bernie Sanders’s support for Palestinian rights at the Democratic debate Wednesday could not have been expressed “anywhere in the Democratic Party, ever, under any circumstances in the 60s,” Rashid Khalidi says. While Dorothy Zellner says the ongoing divide in the Democratic Party over Palestine is an “ethical” division going back to the Nakba, and there is no point in having a united front that sells out Palestinian rights.