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The 32-point article, intended for internal discussion, contained Anti-Semitic illusions and imagery; Publicity director for SNCC, Ralph Featherstone, immediately clarified that the organization was not against Jews as a race, but opposed instead to Zionism and the policies of the State of Israel. The entire document was widely condemned, with liberal and Jewish institutions/media defaming and distancing from the organization. In 2016, the Movement for Black Lives released its policy platform, articulating a visionary agenda for Black power, freedom and justice, which included a statement on Palestine. Informed in part by “We Charge Genocide,” the 1951 Civil Rights Congress petition by Black Americans to the United Nations and an ongoing movement for accountability, the platform used the word “genocide” to describe the Israeli government’s policies towards Palestinians. Liberal press, mainstream Jewish institutions and philanthropists decried the use of the word, smeared the platform in its entirety, and withdrew both public and material support from the Movement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d5534237c58193c54f865b/1494447069404-7FO7W92ZF1EAA06946KG/Keith+Ellison+supporters+say+Israel+attacks+helped+sink+his+DNC+bid+-+andrew-young.png Gallery of Solidarity Andrew Young, 1979 & Keith Ellison, 2017 In 1979, Andrew Young, a former civil rights leader who worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr. in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), was removed from his position as US Ambassador to the United Nations in large part because of his efforts to open up dialogue with representatives of the Palestine Liberation Organization. In 2017, Congressman Keith Ellison, the first Muslim member of the US Congress, was repeatedly attacked by the American Jewish establishment during his bid for chair of the Democratic National Committee. Ellison had visited Palestine/Israel and voiced support for Palestinians, and as a law student was involved with the Nation of Islam. Groups like the American Jewish Congress and the Anti-Defamation League, as well as individuals like Alan Dershowitz and Haim Saban issued statements and published OpEds accusing Ellison of anti-Semitism and “unfairly demonizing” Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians. Ellison lost the bid. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d5534237c58193c54f865b/1494388777159-N0B2YPHEKKRDWH96H0FM/1970-appeal-2015+Black+for+Palestine.png Gallery of Solidarity 1970 Appeal by Black Americans Against United States Support for the Zionist Government of Israel & 2015 Black Solidarity Statement with Palestine In November 1970, the Committee of Black Americans for Truth about the Middle-East took out an advertisement in the New York Times to express their solidarity with Palestinians and their struggle for self-determination. The Committee reflected the position of Black radicals, who recognized the nature of the United States as an “exploitative and imperialist power.” In 2015, several of the signatories of the 1970 statement joined over 1,100 Black activists, artists, scholars, students and organizations to sign the Black Solidarity Statement with Palestine, similarly identifying the role of the United States in defending and funding Israel’s violence against Palestinians. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d5534237c58193c54f865b/1494388929123-V642B2OQ0I0PIID16A3K/Gary+Convention+1972-M4BL2014-c.png Gallery of Solidarity 1972 National Black Political Convention (Gary, IN) & 2015 Movement for Black Lives Convening (Cleveland, OH) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d5534237c58193c54f865b/1494388788964-4IHEL6PJPYU243O99PJI/black-statements-for-palestine2.png Gallery of Solidarity The Black Agenda, 1972 & The Vision for Black Lives, 2016 The political platforms emerging from two major Black American political conventions elevated the Palestinian struggle through resolutions and recommendations. The statements and references to Israel and Palestine proved to be among the most controversial elements of both policy documents and illustrate the unique, disruptive power of linking global struggles against injustice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d5534237c58193c54f865b/1498334220073-2BPO9GXH416D2V1J7YVQ/ali-michael-bennett-freedom-bound.jpg Gallery of Solidarity Muhammad Ali, 1974 & Michael Bennett, 2017 Boxing great and cultural icon, Muhammad Ali, was a Black revolutionary and the "people's champ" who voiced unqualified support for Palestinian rights. Visiting Palestinian refugee camps in South Lebanon in 1974, Ali publicly stated, "I declare support for the Palestinian struggle to liberate their homeland." His powerful witness to freedom struggles inspired artists in Palestine, and was referenced in 2017 by American football star Michael Bennett when he pulled out of an Israeli government-sponsored trip to Israel for NFL players. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d5534237c58193c54f865b/1493997774257-3DUEJ3PHO0GKCSEZN5HU/june-suheir.png Gallery of Solidarity June Jordan & Suheir Hammad June Jordan, a Black feminist poet and political activist whose award-winning poetry was imbued with advocacy, offered readers and fellow-poets insight into the organic experience of Black-Palestinian solidarity. In ‘Moving Toward Home’, a poem from Living Room (1985) she wrote: ‘I was born a Black woman / and now / I am become a Palestinian". Palestinian-American poet Suheir Hammad renewed Jordan's words in the title of her first collection of poetry Born Palestinian, Born Black (1996, 2010). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d5534237c58193c54f865b/1494435527113-TIDO6I49BZUMCT5Y8NFB/phss-palestinian-hunger-strike-statement3-web.png Gallery of Solidarity Dear Angela: Mutual Support Beyond the Bars Dr. Angela Davis, public intellectual and political activist, spent 16 months in jail from 1971 – 1972, held on charges of conspiracy that she successfully defended in a federal court. During her unjust incarceration, two Palestinian political prisoners offered words of support and solidarity via a letter snuck out of an Israeli jail. In 2013, having completed a 66-day hunger strike in an Israeli jail the year before, Palestinian political prisoner Khader Adnan publicly expressed his support for the mass hunger strike in California, led by persons incarcerated in Pelican Bay prison. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d5534237c58193c54f865b/1494435560071-P1017B6K89HE2OJCYZ7F/enemy-of-the-sun-web.jpg Gallery of Solidarity Enemy of the Sun: One Struggle for Freedom The misattribution of a poem by Palestinian Samih Al-Qasim to Black political prisoner George Jackson deepens discourse on the kinship of those held in captivity across geography and time. Professor Greg Thomas, who uncovered this “literary mistake,” expands on the significance in his 2015 exhibit: George Jackson in the Sun of Palestine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d5534237c58193c54f865b/1493997565012-L4YNH429HHI1RKF2LP2I/Palestinians+in+Montana+and+North+Dakota1980-2016d.jpg Gallery of Solidarity Palestinians in Montana and North Dakota, 1980 & 2016 Palestinian delegates attended the 1980 International Indian Treaty Conference hosted by the people of the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Montana. During the proceedings, Mr. Ibrahim Ebeid spoke of the “indivisible struggle of the Palestinian Arab peoples and the Indian people of the Western Hemisphere.” In 2016, the Palestinian Youth Movement sent a delegation to Standing Rock in North Dakota to “show support and true joint-struggle solidarity in this time of native resilience.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d5534237c58193c54f865b/1493997564478-VARC2GTKS2N3JJ9Q39TX/black-panther-native-resist-cm2.png Gallery of Solidarity The Road to Standing Rock: The Black Panther & Black Lives Matter, 1969 & 2016 Revolutionary organizations of the 60s & 70s like the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement learned from and celebrated one other’s movements. Within the Movement for Black Lives, Black-led organizations have been intentional about rooting visions for liberation in the protection of indigenous struggles, such as supporting the powerful Native mobilization in North Dakota against the Dakota Access Pipeline. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d5534237c58193c54f865b/1493997562740-RIE67Y3SOYYHNTVTY94V/mahmoud-lee.jpg Gallery of Solidarity Lee Maracle and Mahmoud Darwish, 1974 & 2012 First Nations poet Lee Maracle remembers meeting Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish at a public reading in Vancouver in 1976 at the UN Habitat conference on human settlement. Hearing his work, she said, “He spoke to something so old inside my body it felt like floating in a sea of forever.” In 2012, Maracle wrote a poem to the late Darwish in tribute. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d5534237c58193c54f865b/1500401943743-W04VFQAF80OEBP0K0A4E/lorde+women-Daher-Nashif.jpg Gallery of Solidarity Sister Outsider: A Palestinian Feminist on Audre Lorde and Black Feminist Thought, 1990s & 2016 “Sister Outsider was a clean-clear mirror for myself.” Dr. Suhad Daher-Nashif, a Palestinian living within the borders of the Israeli state recalls the impact of the writings of Audre Lorde and other Black feminists on the Palestinian feminist movement, particularly in the early 1990s. “Reading and understanding the Black women's experiences was a turning point for Palestinian women activists when they realized that their struggle couldn’t be in cooperation with Israeli women, because the struggle is not against masculinity of a government, but against the masculinity of colonialism and occupation. It is against being occupied and colonized Palestinian women, and not simply oppressed citizens.” Of Lorde, Dr. Daher-Nashif says, “The agency she gave to women affected my relationship with myself, with my daughters and also structured my framing of patriarchy within the Palestinian society in relation to the global one.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d5534237c58193c54f865b/1500411746285-U5ECKYL36YIXYEK7S8PF/AAUG-rehearsal+miami1.jpg Gallery of Solidarity Black America Education Project, 1979 & There is a Field Residency Project, 2017 In 1979, the Association of Arab American University Graduates (AAUG) initiated the Black Education Project to foster understanding about Palestine and build solidarity with leading Black American individuals and institutions. In 2017, Donkey Saddle Projects developed an artistic residency and curriculum for communities active in the Movement for Black Lives to promote deepened engagement on Palestine/Israel, a strengthened analysis on intersectional oppression and freedom struggles, and a solidified commitment towards mobilization and action. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d5534237c58193c54f865b/1493999776529-MTNHGUSJU5H476VLAVV2/freedom-rides-palestine-basel-tribute.png Gallery of Solidarity The Road to Equality, 2011 & 1961 In November 2011, Palestinian Freedom Riders boarded segregated buses in the occupied West Bank to challenge Israeli system of segregation and apartheid. The buses were reserved for Jewish Israeli settlers living in illegal settlements. The act of civil disobedience took its inspiration from the US Civil Rights Movement Freedom Riders, who 50 years prior in 1961 had boarded interstate buses in the segregated South in an effort to enforce a US Supreme Court decision that ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d5534237c58193c54f865b/1493999786028-UECRRCR3UZ2L3W432NM4/freedom-rides-banner-through+time4.jpg Gallery of Solidarity The Road to Equality, 2011 & 1961 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d5534237c58193c54f865b/1499794662382-E0B7OIINX9LYWE3AFBEW/buchanan-adala3.png Gallery of Solidarity Taking Segregation to Court, 1917 & 2004 Palestinian citizens of Israel (who make up 20% of the population) are excluded from 81% of the geographic space of the state of Israel by various land and planning policies. In 2004, Adalah, a Palestinian legal center, challenged the Jewish National Fund’s discriminatory policy of allocating land exclusively to Jewish citizens of the state. In the case before the Israeli Supreme Court, Adalah attorneys relied on Buchanan v. Warley (1917), an early US Supreme Court victory by the NAACP that successfully challenged residential segregation in Louisville, Kentucky. Louisville and other cities had passed ordinances to prevent people of color from residing in white neighborhoods, which the court deemed unconstitutional. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d5534237c58193c54f865b/1494954205720-6IABFKH561FOLDDLSJWX/Palestinians_Che_Guevara_tshirts.jpg Gallery of Solidarity “Our liberation is incomplete” Black and Brown leaders around the world have supported the Palestinian freedom struggle, and challenged ongoing Israeli settler-colonial rule and ethnic supremacy in historic Palestine. Voices of the elders of liberation movements from Nelson Mandela to Ché Guevara and Amilcar Cabral continue to uplift Palestinians and inform the widespread and growing international support for Palestinian human rights. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d5534237c58193c54f865b/1494954241351-FA9NB5TXVFL34A9THG2J/cabral-solidarity.png Gallery of Solidarity “Our liberation is incomplete” Black and Brown leaders around the world have supported the Palestinian freedom struggle, and challenged ongoing Israeli settler-colonial rule and ethnic supremacy in historic Palestine. Voices of the elders of liberation movements from Nelson Mandela to Ché Guevara and Amilcar Cabral continue to uplift Palestinians and inform the widespread and growing international support for Palestinian human rights. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d5534237c58193c54f865b/1494955630677-10ZRFGXOOTGMB5CLOU6F/Tricontinental+1966-Bandung.png Gallery of Solidarity Bandung & Beyond The Bandung Conference of 1955 was the first large-scale conference of Asian and African countries, and turning point for the post-colonial international political order. In their final communiqué, the representatives at Bandung pledged their “support of the rights of the Arab people of Palestine.” Similar international gatherings – the 1966 Tricontinental Conference in Havana, Cuba, the regular Non-Aligned Movement Summits, and the 2001 World Conference on Racism in Durban, South Africa – also elevated the Palestinian struggle for freedom, justice and equality as fundamental to the protection of human rights and liberation worldwide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d5534237c58193c54f865b/1494956642529-R4V51RBC821AYDQCFJX3/black-liberation-palestinian-liberation.jpg Gallery of Solidarity From Ferguson to Palestine, From 1964 to 2017 In the late 1960s, leading Black organizations in the United States began to examine the Black struggle through an anti-imperialist lens and to connect with anti-colonial struggles throughout the world, including Palestine. Leaders in the Black Liberation Movement such as Malcolm X, Huey Newton, Stokely Carmichael, and Angela Davis as well as members of national Black institutions like the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and People United to Save Humanity (PUSH) traveled to meet Palestinians and their representatives throughout the Middle East in order to express solidarity and to build relationships. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d5534237c58193c54f865b/1494956753428-J9120L4A00ZHB6UNKM7Z/delegations-palestine-ferguson1.png Gallery of Solidarity Beginning in the fall of 2014, various delegations between the US and Israel/Palestine were designed specifically to show solidarity. In 2015, the US-based Dream Defenders, a community organization committed to racial justice, led a delegation to Palestine of freedom fighters from the Movement for Black Lives. This delegation reflected a resurgence of internationalism within US-based movements for social change, and a renewed commitment to building broad, transnational coalitions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d5534237c58193c54f865b/1493998723203-SUL8DQBOCWI91XKTUUPS/black+theology+project-statement+of+purpose2.png Gallery of Solidarity Black Theology Project, 1979 & Statement of Purpose, 2015 Black theologians and Christian organizations in the United States have broken from conservative understandings of scripture and biblical text in order to use those same texts to align themselves with global liberation movements, including Palestine. In 1979, the Black Theology Project issued a resolution on Palestinian Rights and Middle East Peace that drew comparisons between Israel and Apartheid South Africa. In 2015, a network of Black clergy, human rights activists and scholars met at The Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia to draft a Statement connecting Black-led freedom struggles in the US and Africa to the Palestinian struggle for freedom, justice and dignity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d5534237c58193c54f865b/1494000467089-DMUVVTQDSDUA9827FRCY/AWSA-Khaled-Townhall.jpg Gallery of Solidarity Confronting Anti-Black Racism in Arab America, 1994 & 2014 In 2014, in the aftermath of the murder of 18-year old Michael Brown, the Ferguson uprising, and Israel's war on Gaza, Palestinian, Arab and Muslim American scholars and activists began organizing community meetings and roundtables to confront anti-Black racism in their communities. Twenty years earlier, in 1994, the Arab Women’s Solidarity Association opened its first US branch in Seattle and quickly began organizing spaces and opportunities for dialogue between Arab and African American women to discuss racism and other difficult, but critical issues. These conversations and events reflect the ongoing need for self-critique and transformation in pursuit of collective liberation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d5534237c58193c54f865b/1501454826803-TGPOFWZP405X696ARN0G/freedom-rides-banner-through+time4.png Gallery of Solidarity https://www.freedom-bound.net/references daily 0.75 2017-08-08 https://www.freedom-bound.net/art-as-resistance daily 0.75 2017-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d5534237c58193c54f865b/1498145228228-9DBPV81YZQEM3DCVETWY/art+banner-freedom-bound-web.jpg Art as Resistance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d5534237c58193c54f865b/1498146466044-X7HFT0W6I0C3D40NTH5Q/recovery_2-web-dexrjones.jpg Art as Resistance "Recovery" Dexter Ryan Jones We cannot quit in situations as dire as these. We cannot afford to stop when we are talking about lives and our survival. “Recovery” is about choosing movement rather than stillness. For both victims and their loved ones, for individuals and their communities, it is about choosing life and refusing death. When we realize, together, that we are the world, there is nothing that can come against us.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d5534237c58193c54f865b/1498146350253-9Q24PG1TL33B4CVHKG2F/img_5478-3.jpg Art as Resistance "Freedom" Ali Akla The upper part of the canvas is composed of painted, parallel lines; motionless, never touching the other. The second part is made of thread, free to intermingle, free to move but not free to leave. As the lines interact, we remember that we are interconnected, united. Free. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d5534237c58193c54f865b/1498334754045-4VM6SILGM33G9FRN9P3M/ferguson-october.jpg Art as Resistance "Ferguson October" Muhammad Sankari ---- There are those who would call me infidel For likening this place to Mecca But I can’t think of a better way to honor the Prophet Than by having new friends lead the Fatiha in broken Arabic for the soul of Mike Brown Stumbling 3rabi syllables followed by flawless English translation “Bismillaah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem Al hamdu lillaahi rabbil ‘alameen Ar-Rahman ar-Raheem Maaliki yaumid Deen Iyyaaka na’abudu wa iyyaaka nasta’een…” “In the name of God, the infinitely Compassionate and Merciful. Praise be to God, Lord of all the worlds. The Compassionate, the Merciful. Ruler on the Day of Reckoning. You alone do we worship, and You alone do we ask for help…” In this street littered with candles & fading stuffed bears I find the end of a ripped keffiyeh tied to a tree Checkered red and white it’s flickering in the warm Missouri wind I think of Ms. Jordan who reminds me “A tiger does not fall or stumble broken by an accident A tiger does not lose his stride or clumsy slip and slide to tragedy that buzzards feast upon. 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