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تهیه و ترجمه عنوان از: پیمان پایدار
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تهیه و ترجمه عنوان از: پیمان پایدار
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A professor has openly criticized Israel’s victim-blaming surrounding the Gaza massacre, live on air.
On 14 May, at least 60 people were murdered by Israeli troops. Current figures say over 2,000 people were injured as Israel Defense Forces (IDF) opened fire. Children and a baby are among the dead and injured. Israel and the US have defended the violence. But Princeton professor Eddie Glaude Jr compared this atrocity to the violence enacted against the children who marched for civil rights in the US in 1963.
He’s absolutely right. The Israeli narrative is bullshit.
“They’re dead”
On 14 May, Glaude Jr appeared on MSNBC. His co-guest was discussing mid-term elections when Glaude cut in and said:
All of those people are dead. They’re dead. And we’re talking about racehorses. I mean, the politics. I mean, there are a lot of folks who are dead today. For what?
Host Katy Tur rolled out what seems to be a stock mainstream media response:
And the White House today, their response to that was it is Hamas’s fault, and they’re using them [the Palestinian victims] as, as tools for, for propaganda.
It’s about civil rights
15 May marked the 70th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba – or ‘catastrophe’. Nakba acknowledges the forced displacement of Palestinians after the founding of the Israeli state. Thousands of Palestinians have camped on the so-called Israeli-Gaza ‘border’ since 30 March.
But Glaude compared this violence to a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement. In May 1963, thousands of children marched peacefully through Birmingham, Alabama, known as:
one of the most racist cities in the South. Martin Luther King Jr. had described it as a “symbol of hard-core resistance to integration.” Activists had nicknamed it Bombingham, because of the frequency of violent attacks against those fighting the system of segregation.
At this point, Glaude insisted:
That’s like saying the children in the children’s march on Birmingham, it was their fault that Bull Connor attacked them.
Protests started on 2 May. Children walked out of school to begin a campaign against segregation and racial injustice:
On the first day of the protest, hundreds of children were arrested. On the second day, Commissioner of Public Safety Bull [Connor] ordered police to threaten the children with police dogs, spray them with powerful water hoses, and hit them with batons.
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