The interconnectedness of Black and Palestinian struggles has a long history
“As indigenous people of Palestine, we have firsthand experience with settler-colonialism, apartheid and racist violence wielded by Israel’s regime of oppression – with the military funding and unconditional support of the US government – to dispossess us, ethnically cleanse us, and reduce us to lesser humans.”
“Just as the occupying Israeli military forces serve to further entrench the apartheid system against Palestinians, the US police forces only serve to further entrench the system of American white supremacy and privilege.” its “strongest support for the Black liberation movement and for the popular uprising that is currently confronting police violence, racist structures of mass incarceration, economic injustice and state repression.
“We recognize that our liberation as Palestinians is bound together with the liberation of Black people and that our movement must stand clearly with the targets of US racism and imperialism, domestically and internationally,” it said. The organisation went on to demand an end to all state violence against black people, called for reparations for crimes against black and indigenous communities, the release of all black political prisoners in US jails, and the dismantling of current structures of US policing – including an end to the “The Israeli military trains US police in racist and repressive policing tactics, which systematically targets Black and Brown bodies.
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