Michael Fischbach, "Black Power and Palestine: Transnational Countries of Color" (Stanford UP, 2018)

New Books in African American Studies · Jan 4, 2019 · 1h 1m

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the great animating foreign policy issues of the twenty-first century, one that provokes fierce divisions across the world. In the United States, the issue has become increasingly politicized in recent decades. While the conflict is not a strict binary issue, varying degrees and kinds of support for the Palestinians has become increasingly normalized among certain groups in the United States. One group that tends to profess sympathy with and support for Palestinians far more commonly than the average is African Americans. Links between the two groups…