Further Resources
On Refugees
Paradoxes of UNRWA - Dramatic recent cuts in U.S. funding to UNRWA, which provides essential services to millions of Palestinian refugees, illustrate the tensions embedded in the agency since its founding.
Esmat Elhalaby, March 2, 2018
A place I do not recognise: Palestinians mark 70 years of Israeli injustice , by Jonathan Cook
19 April 2018 — Saffuriya was levelled in the Nakba and replaced by a Jewish moshav. But its memory burns bright for many forced to flee during Israel’s creation
- "...Most discussions about Palestinian refugees focus on the millions in camps across the Middle East – in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and in the Israeli-occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza. Usually overlooked are the several hundred thousand Palestinians still living in Israel who were internally displaced by the Nakba."
On Settler Colonialism
Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and the "special relationship" between the U.S. and Israel , Cecilie Surasky
"Settler colonialism and white supremacy is the right, holistic frame with which to understand Israel and Palestine, as well as the U.S. — it helps us understand what we’re really struggling against, and holds us accountable to ways we may inadvertently be serving the status quo."
~Cecilie Surasky, Deputy Director Jewish Voice for Peace, 2015
Statement of The Movement for Black Lives
THE MOVEMENT FOR BLACK LIVES STANDS WITH THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE STATEMENT
Since the Great March of Return began on March 30th, 2018, 111 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces and more than 10,000 have been injured. These Palestinians were courageously demanding their right to live in freedom and to return to land they were forced from.
The Movement for Black Lives stands with the Palestinian people and especially those in Gaza, that have been engaging in resistance at the Gaza border. As we watched the brutal attacks on these brave activists which continued during and after the opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, we were painfully reminded of what happens when Black people, here in the U.S., decide to resist. We know that the United States government sends the same weapons to Tel Aviv as it sends to Ferguson, and hundreds of other cities across the country. We know that police officers in the United States learn the tactics of war from Israeli police forces, who come annually to train U.S. officers in methods of oppression, surveillance and murder. We understand that we are connected to the Palestinian people by our shared demand for recognition and justice and our long histories of displacement, discrimination and violence.
We categorically condemn the mass murder of Palestinians whose only crime was taking acts of moral resistance to life under occupation. We join them in calling for an end to the illegal blockade on Gaza which has allowed for the sealing off of its borders, trapping 2 million residents in an open air prison.
We also demand an end to the over 3 billion US taxpayer dollars that are sent to Israel to purchase military arms from U.S. corporations that are used on Palestinians.
We stand on the side of those fighting for the freedom of Black people, Palestinians and oppressed people all around the world.
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