The Tide Is Turning Against Israeli Apartheid
With enormous pro-Palestine demonstrations erupting across the world — including a historic general strike today in Palestine itself — Israeli apartheid is feeling the heat. The next step is to bring it down.
Palestinian citizens of Israel demonstrate in Haifa, Israel, on May 18, 2021, to mark a nationwide general strike called by the country’s Arab leadership and to express solidarity for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. (Mati Milstein/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
“Do you support the protests, the violent protests, that have erupted in solidarity with you and other families in your position right now?”
“Do you support the violent dispossession of me and my family?”
Last week, CNN interviewed Mohammed El-Kurd from Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem — almost certainly the first time a Palestinian resisting dispossession was given the chance to speak on the network. With that brief opportunity, the young Palestinian swiftly challenged decades of malicious portrayals of the Palestinian struggle in mainstream media.
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