Similar to attacks on LGBTQ books and works of “Critical Race Theory,” the pro-Israel crusade to suppress Palestinian voices is a systematic campaign of political targeting.
Israel’s national airline, El Al, has a history of egregious racial profiling and invasive security checks for its flights in foreign airports. But a closer look into how El Al operates shows that Israel uses it as an intelligence front.
I did not learn much about my Palestinian heritage growing up, but a trip to Palestine as an adult exposed me to the beauty of Palestinian culture and the racist realities of life under Israeli occupation.
Palestinians are evidently not entitled to the same rights as other people. This is the only Western standard that has been applied in the last hundred years.
Ghada Hania responds to CBS correspondent Charlie D’Agata who contrasted life in “civilized” Ukraine to places that have seen “conflict raging for decades” like Iraq, Afghanistan, or perhaps Palestine.
Orientalist media coverage of the war in Ukraine reflects the worldview inherent in Western governments’ policies.
Whoopi Goldberg saw the racism of the Jewish Holocaust through the lens of the holocaust in the Americas.
Understanding Palestine as a racial justice issue is to understand it as part of the broad fight for collective liberation.
Palestinian courage this spring has stunned people across the world. At home and abroad, the US and Israel can kill, and for the moment, this cannot be stopped. But they can also be made to lose the war of ideas that makes the killing sustainable. We have no right to ask that the Palestinians stand alone in this fight.