Black and Palestinian Solidarity: We have to talk about what happened | Views

For more than a month, in his second term, President Donald Trump has already coped with many of his fearsome promises of a campaign. He ordered the mass deportation of migrants and asylum seekers; canceled federal diversity, justice, inclusion programs (DEI); shortening the financing of black and Latin American disadvantaged communities; And he promised to expel foreigners with a legal residence who participated in propalist protests.

It is clear that if we want to survive over the next four years, minorities and oppressed people from all stripes must build solidarity networks in order to stay together and resist. To do this effectively, we have to deal with any exceptional problems that could undermine the solidarity of the cross community. It cannot be said that they are interested in the rights of women, public health, racial equality, education, or any number of things that liberals claim to care and then allow the genocide to continue.

The 2024 elections were held in the shadow of Israel's genocidal campaign against Palestine. Despite the efforts of the Democratic Party to confuse and manipulate the problem, they could not just wish the horrifying images coming out of the Gaza and the west coast.

They have been confronted with mass mobilization of people on the streets, in primeris and in colleges in colleges calling for emergency action to stop Israel. In a desperate attempt to distract from the legitimate criticism they receive to facilitate the genocide, the Democratic Party has turned to the cross -section coalition, which is formed to support Gaza.

In particular, the Democrats sought to break the Black and Palestinian Solidarity. One of the ways in which they hoped to do this was to put propalistic protesters as voters of one edition. They claimed that the Palestinian and Arab community and their allies were invested only in the Palestinian struggle for freedom and were not interested in the struggles of minority groups here in the United States.

The Democrats stressed that what is happening in Gaza is an external question that only applies to this particular group of voters. The idea was to convince the blacks – like women, LGBTQ and other disadvantaged groups – that their solidarity with Palestine is pointless and that their interests consist of the Democratic Party Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

When I was confronted with a special conversation about “single number”, I would usually ask: what “single problem” is a genocide? It cannot be said that they are interested in the rights of women, public health, racial equality, education, or any number of things that liberals claim to care and then allow the genocide to continue.

If one is fine with the extermination of one group, why would they not be ready to approve of the destruction of others when the time came?

We looked at how serious the Democratic Party's commitment and its liberal supporters to the rights of disadvantaged groups could be when they rushed to blame the trance for the defeat of Harris and some prominent members suggested that the “trance question” dropped.

The point of conversation with a “one edition” was not the only armed to undermine the black-Palestinian solidarity. Historical mobilization in colleges and university campuses across the country has also been attacked. Liberal media sought to present propalistic activism not only as “anti -Semitic”, but also as a pet of the bourgeoisie, something that only wealthy children at Ivy League universities had time to be interested.

What the media decided to leave from this story was that the mobilization also took A place at public universities and public schools where black -brown students have largely joined. The fact that colorful students were confronted with the gravity of police violence and prosecution was also conveniently missed by public conversation.

At the same time, the Democratic Party also made some of its members of color to become the face of its unacceptable position to gas. The UN Ambassador of Biden Linda Thomas-Greenfield was instructed to vote on the resolution of the fire after resolving the fire and to repeat Israel's “right to self-defense”. White House Secretary Karin Jean-Pierre had to avoid any questions about the Palestinians during the pressures. Vice President Harris herself was charged with the “recognition” of the humanity and suffering of the Palestinian people, while the Biden administration continues to approve of arms sales in Israel.

The Democratic Party uses blackness as a shield against any criticism, and they made it under the guise of diversity. It is uncomfortable that the cover descended every time the black or brown party members spoke. In such cases, the Democrats did everything they could to demonize and remove them. When Congress member Corey Bush confronted an unprecedented mass -spent campaign from Ipak to expel her into Primeimiz, none of the democratic leadership appeared in her defense.

Nevertheless, the speaking points worked and managed to penetrate even otherwise progressive spaces. A good example was an online conversation between the content creator Tori Grier and Tiktoker Maya Abdala, which took place in August.

Tori as a black woman argued for a vote on Harris, outlining her real fears from Trump's second presidency, while Maya rightly stated that the Democrat candidate refused to stop facing a genocide. The heated debate between the two has spread online, with some social media users abandoning their solidarity. It is here that the political elite wanted us to be.

While the Democratic Party was courting the black community, she made no effort to talk to Arab Americans and other propalist groups. And even with the “courtship” of blacks, the Democrats still managed to be as high as possible, taking out the tired and racist troupe of the “black men, becoming more conservative.”

It was this strategy and the inconvenient framing of the Genocide Party and the minority rights that led us to the fascist dream of fever that Trump's presidency.

Many Arab Americans – as well as members of other minority groups – voted for Trump. As a black man, I would not try to convince these people to vote for “less evil” while their families are destroyed in gas.

Others in the black community felt different. A small but vowel contingent of black people on the Internet insisted on opposing Israel's boycott, “Buy Starbucks” and stop supporting the Palestinian cause. Although it was a major phenomenon of social media, real -life effects are there. When I talk to members of my community, which may be less informed about what is happening abroad, there are the same few points to speak: “Isn't this conflict for thousands of years?” And “Israel is being protected.”

The truth is that this is not the first time the black community is divided over Palestine-Israel. Remember the clash between the iconic black writer Odre Lorde and a colleague Black Feminist June Jordan. In the early 1980s, Jordan openly criticized Israel for invasion of Lebanon and for his “genocidal goals with regard to the Palestinian people.” Lord rejected this position. She understood the ways the United States took on and used black people here and abroad, but she was not able to associate him with the fight of the Palestinians the way Jordan did it. This fracture caused worsening in their relationship.

As the differences in opinion continue today within the black community, I ultimately believe that the contradictions present in the defense of the Democratic Party are increasingly becoming bankrupt. The ways in which Democrats use their platform to manipulate stories – similar to the way Republicans do with their base – lead to confusion, not more political participation than blacks.

For those who still accept speaking points for the propalist movement, it may be a good idea to ask what the Democratic Party has done to win their loyalty.

This is the party, which, in response to the murder of George Floyd police in the summer of 2020, decided to send his management to make a photo shoot at Kent Clot, but then spent $ 17.4 billion to fund police throughout the country two years later. This is also the party whose members and related heads have made a lot of effort to demonize the Black Lives Matter movement and have stolen all the popular inertia from it.

Most recently, the Democratic Party has gone out of its way to push forward the highly unpopular ”COP CITY ”Project in AtlantaS The city, known by the wealthy Black Democrats, has taken Draconian measures to ensure that all the resistance – including the members of the black community – to this project for the training of police training to be numb.

Let us also remember that while Trump is every part of the monstrous democrats claim that they themselves look good with him. This is because for years the democratic elite relies on many rotating villains so that they do not have to fulfill any of their more progressive promises to their base. Given this strategy, in 2015-2016 they prompted Trump in Republican primers, believing that he would be the easiest candidate for victory.

In this context, the insinuation, which the Democratic Party – or the Republican Party, has the best interest in the black population of this country, is not only offensive but also dangerous. For both parties, black and Palestinian lives are a little worried; They only matter when or whether it is political and financially appropriate.

Many black Americans like me see the parallel between the historical ways that our people have been hurt and what is happening in Palestine. The brutal apartheid and genocide of the Palestinian people directly refer to the mass murders and subordination of blacks here in the United States. There is so many things we say in our community, resonate with the people of Palestine and vice versa. Our very existence is a threat to the status quo.

I see this realization spread among my peers and we all saw it in the Super Bowl when Zul-Qarnain NantambuBlack performer, raised Sudan and Palestinian flag on stage during the half -time show.

For the last 16 months, the Gaza Genocide has brought to the fore the close ties between the US military-industrial complex and the Israeli, between the US Army and the Israeli occupation forces, between the US police and the Israeli security establishment.

With Trump and his group of white nationalist extremists who are already unleashed by police and other security agencies on vulnerable communities, we-black and brown people, LGBTQ and propalist activists-laughs at the same threat, the same source of aggression.

Our power lies in the united resistance. In order to laugh the established order, we must stand together.

The anger expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazee's editorial position.