From Palestine to Minneapolis
---------Forwarded message--------- From: Stecy Mbemba Date: Sun, May 31, 2020 at 9:57 AM Subject: [sjp] From Minneapolis to Palestine To: Students for Justice in Palestine Club Dear SJP Team, As Palestine solidarity activists, we have a pressing responsibility to understand our struggle as tied with the struggle for Black liberation and with all anti-colonial freedom struggles across the world. At the same time, we must maintain that all of our movements are undoubtedly distinct. Systems of oppression owe their success to the fragmentation of these movements by making us believe that we cannot and should not compare our movements. Indeed, we should not compare our movements, but we ought to connect them. When Minnesota police learn tactics from the Zionist occupation forces, the material connections between militarized police brutality in the United States and in occupied Palestine become abundantly clear. We should not ignore the fact that the tear gas used against protesters
