From Palestine to Minneapolis
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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 in the United States is the same tear gas Zionists use against Palestinians. With this in mind, we must understand that anti-blackness is deeply embedded within the white supremacist projects that have plagued every corner of the world. Anti-Black violence has roots far deeper than the Zionist violence against Palestinians and Black Jews who live in the Zionist entity. Systems of state-sanctioned violence against Black people have sustained the American polity and these systems have spread violence to Black and non-black people of color across the world.
We, Bard SJP, firmly and unequivocally stand with those participating in the uprisings in Minneapolis and across the country. Citizens are reacting not only to one incidence of violence, but to centuries of racist oppression that occurs in settler states and that contributes to a broader global system of anti-blackness.
Love,
SJP Steering
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 in the United States is the same tear gas Zionists use against Palestinians. With this in mind, we must understand that anti-blackness is deeply embedded within the white supremacist projects that have plagued every corner of the world. Anti-Black violence has roots far deeper than the Zionist violence against Palestinians and Black Jews who live in the Zionist entity. Systems of state-sanctioned violence against Black people have sustained the American polity and these systems have spread violence to Black and non-black people of color across the world.
We, Bard SJP, firmly and unequivocally stand with those participating in the uprisings in Minneapolis and across the country. Citizens are reacting not only to one incidence of violence, but to centuries of racist oppression that occurs in settler states and that contributes to a broader global system of anti-blackness.
Love,
SJP Steering
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