“Angry Black Woman” Sides With Israel Because Martin Luther King Was a Zionist

by Yvette Carnell

The title of this letter should’ve been “Why is Angry Black Woman Crazy?” Listen, gay is not the new black and the Palestinian struggle is not the equivalent of the struggle for African-Americans to secure rights in this country. It is also true that no pro-Palestine group should ever engage in intimidating Israeli students on campus,  but supporting Israel based on the idea that civil rights icons were Zionists is unserious at best.

From Angry Black Woman’s open letter:

If your heroes are clerics who sit in Gaza plotting the genocide of a people; who place their children on rooftops in the hopes they will get blown to bits; who heap praises upon their fellow gang members when they succeed in murder¡ng Jewish school boys and bombing places of activity where Jews congregate—you do not get to claim that you are some Apollonian advocate of human virtue. You are not.

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