Israel/Palestine

Purveyor

(29,876 posts) Sun Oct 18, 2015, 05:51 PM Oct 2015

Obama’s Ex-Pastor: Israel Is Apartheid State, ‘Jesus Was A Palestinian’

Jeremiah Wright, US President Barack Obama’s former pastor, called Israel an apartheid state and said “Jesus was a Palestinian” at a rally in Washington hosted by the Rev. Louis Farrakhan.

At an hours-long event Saturday on the National Mall titled “Justice or Else,” Wright said that African-Americans, Native Americans and Palestinians have suffered under the “three-headed demon” of “racism, militarism and capitalism.”

“The same issue is being fought today and has been fought since 1948, and historians are carried back to the 19th century … when the original people, the Palestinians — and please remember, Jesus was a Palestinian — the Palestinian people have had the Europeans come and take their country,” Wright said, The Hill reported.

“The youth in Ferguson and the youth in Palestine have united together to remind us that the dots need to be connected,” Wright also said.

“And what Dr. King said, injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere, has implications for us as we stand beside our Palestinian brothers and sisters, who have been done one of the most egregious injustices in the 20th and 21st centuries.”

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http://www.timesofisrael.com/obamas-ex-pastor-israel-is-apartheid-state-jesus-was-a-palestinian/

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Obama’s Ex-Pastor: Israel Is Apartheid State, ‘Jesus Was A Palestinian’ (Original Post) Purveyor Oct 2015 OP

“When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You’re talking anti-Semitism!” Martin Luther King grossproffit Oct 2015 #1

When people say this I dont think they realize what it highlights Mosby Oct 2015 #2

And for much of that time oppressed. Igel Oct 2015 #5

the nutcake has a lot of vitriol for the President too 6chars Oct 2015 #3

So if you call Igel Oct 2015 #4

grossproffit

(5,591 posts)

1. “When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You’re talking anti-Semitism!” Martin Luther King

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Sun Oct 18, 2015, 06:22 PM

Oct 2015

Mosby

(16,334 posts)

2. When people say this I dont think they realize what it highlights

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Sun Oct 18, 2015, 06:30 PM

Oct 2015

Jesus was a Palestinian JEW.

Who , like many other thousands of Palestinian Jews, was living in his ancestral homeland 2000 years ago and continuously though today.

Igel

(35,337 posts)

5. And for much of that time oppressed.

Reply to Mosby (Reply #2)

Sun Oct 18, 2015, 08:25 PM

Oct 2015

By Iraqis, for a while, and Lebanese. By other Palestinians (many with Arab ancestors or at least Arab names). Then the Turks moved in.

Of course, we can't dismiss the persecution and oppression of the Israelites by the Egyptians. (Don't many Afro-centric thinkers view all the Egyptians, upper and lower, as black?)

About the only non-oppressors of the Jews are those who failed to have significant contact with them. The Ainu, for example.

6chars

(3,967 posts)

3. the nutcake has a lot of vitriol for the President too

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Sun Oct 18, 2015, 06:40 PM

Oct 2015

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/what-ever-happened-to-jeremiah-wright/406522/

Then he turned to his most famous former congregant, accusing him of failing to speak out about structural racism.
“My daughter and granddaughter call him our Halfrican-American president—he don’t want to talk about reparations,” Wright said, never naming Obama. “It’s not personal responsibility. It’s not ‘pull your pants up.’ Don’t get on Fox News and lecture black men. You’re missing the point. Let’s talk about white-on-black crime. Until we have a hard dialogue, it’s all gonna be superficial, ‘Kumbaya,’ ‘We Shall Overcome.’”

He followed that with an extended metaphor about sheepdogs—once they’re trained to protect a flock, he said, they’ll fight against even dogs from their own litter—and declared, “We got a lot of sheepdogs in the African American community.” He didn’t name any. He didn’t really need to.

Igel

(35,337 posts)

4. So if you call

Reply to 6chars (Reply #3)

Sun Oct 18, 2015, 08:22 PM

Oct 2015

African-Americans "dogs" does that count as a dogwhistle?

Or is it low-frequency enough to not need to be a dogwhistle?

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