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Continued from previous page Mediterranean Sea, or conflicts in Somalia, Colombia or Honduras. He said the passage on Israel is longer because “there’s a certain prominence to it, and that may require us to go a little more in detail.” But he said the statements about other conflicts, charging the United States with imperialist actions, are just as strong as the language condemning Israel. “I don’t see it as a special connection,” Ndugga-Kabuye said about the link between the
Movement for Black Lives and the Palestinian cause. “We stand in solidarity with Palestine, but it’s not any different than our connection with the Somali community. It’s not any different than our connection with the Colombian community.” The vast majority of the platform addresses issues unrelated to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Its six sections deal with physical, social, economic and political discrimination against black people. Among its list of demands is an end to capital punishment, free universal education and a universal basic income for black Americans, the demilitarization of police,
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a broad reform of the prison system and reparations for black Americans. In addition to demanding an end to foreign aid for Israel and Egypt, the platform calls for divesting from the fossil fuel industry and reducing the U.S. defense budget. The platform accuses the U.S. of subjecting black Americans to “food apartheid” and “educational apartheid.” In both cases, it claims the government has deprived black The Jewish community in New York holding a rally for the Black Lives Matter communities of access movement outside the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, July 28 to the same resources and our Palestinian brothers email and Facebook messages enjoyed by white Americans. and sisters are not terrorists,” Ndugga-Kabuye said his goal from JTA seeking comment. the statement said. “For the Dream Defenders released was “thinking about all the difchildren who are met with tear a statement doubling down ferent ways American military gas and rubber bullets as they on the genocide language. policy impacts different black walk home from school, for the The statement accused procommunities across the world and how that’s tied into what’s Israel critics of being “wolves in families of those we have lost to sheep’s clothing” for supporting police violence, for the commugoing on here domestically.” nities devastated by economic the Black Lives Matter moveGilmer, the co-author of the ment only as long as it supports violence and apartheid walls, Invest/Divest section, told we fight.” Israel. It asserted that Israel Haaretz her father is AfricanOn Aug. 5, Jewish Voice for committed genocide during its American and her mother is Peace released a statement from 1948 War of Independence, as Jewish. She is a former board a group called the Jews of Color some 700,000 Palestinians were member of Young Judaea, a Zionist youth group, although she expelled from Israel or fled and Caucus backing the platform’s were prevented from returning. section on Israel. no longer identifies as Jewish, “We call on the U.S. Jewish Fighting Israeli “apartheid,” according to Haaretz, and has community to end its legitithe statement said, is insepabecome an anti-Israel activist. mization of anti-Black racism Now she is the chief of strategy rable from fighting racism in America. It called on its allies to through its combined attacks on for Dream Defenders, a black the Black Lives Matter Platform join the BDS campaign. community organizing group “As Black people fighting for and U.S. Palestine solidarity,” based in Florida. the statement said. “We call our freedom, we are not thugs Gilmer did not respond to
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