This is why black people in the mainstream media don’t criticize Israel; they want to stay in the mainstream media! Marc Lamont Hill is being made an example of to any other black media personalities who would dare speak out for the oppressed people of Palestine.

Supporters of Palestine have to be pure, while Israel fans can be disingenous? Fuck that.

to the extent that you’re “coming off as an asshole,” it’s justified, because this is an infuriatingly unjust situation!  And, like you said, most of the people who spout off about it are (willfully) misinformed on the topic...my question always has & always will be:  If the white peoples of Europe/USA felt sooo…

Kinja is currently crashing hardcore for me, not letting me respond, so that may be it for me.

Let’s be clear; I’m being harsh and rude to some spineless and dishonorable people here shilling the Israeli government’s narrative and trying to smear Hill even further.

The nation of Israel only exists because white people didn’t an influx of Jewish people immigrating to their countries. 

At the absolute worst, Hill is guilty of a poor choice of phrase. I and many others would argue he isn’t even that, all the people saying it’s “clearly anti-Semitic” have conveniently forgotten Herut-Likud slogans that use the phrase in a nationalist sense for Israelis, but even accepting he should have used a…

I think we need to take into account a few things before I respond. I’m going to call out the traditionally unchallenged idea that Jewish ppl (being the historic and present day targets of pervasive antisemitism) are, notwithstanding, both economically and racially capable of using their privilege to silence and to…

God forbid you speak ill of Isreal. Pay no attention to them oppressong others. If you dare point out Isreali hypocracy your an anti semite...

I know what I feel about him. Doing the right thing every once in awhile does not a good Senator make. On net - and it’s not even really that close - Tim Scott is your typical conservative Republican upholding white supremacy. I don’t have much internal turmoil about what I think of him.  He’s far from the only…

Thank you for explaining what people can and cannot be for or against all the while completely confusing what Dr. Hill was against.

For the record: he’s been labeled an antisemite before precisely because of his sympathy for the Palestinian cause. Lately they’ve been throwing that same albatross around the neck of writer Alice Walker who also supports the Palestinian cause. Its all about power & control - controlling some black voices.

I recall former president Jimmy Carter having a book, rightly, denouncing the Israeli state for it’s subjugation of Palestinians: “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.”

Your factual assumptions are wrong. When counting the West Bank, Gaza, and Israel proper, Jews are a slight minority. Though even if that were not the case, the question is whether Palestinians have any say in the government that rules over them. They currently do not. No one advocating a one-state solution is saying t…

Why would granting democratic rights to Palestinians require Israel to be destroyed in its entirety? Those are some spicy priors you’re working with.

Israel is an ethnostate, literally enshrined in their laws as of this year. He is saying to destroy the ethnostate in favor of egalitarianism.

Given the nature of politics surrounding the state of Israel in the American context, Prof. Hill should have known that black intellectuals, politicians, clergy, activists and entertainers are not allowed nuance when criticizing Israel’s treatment of the Palestinian people. For black people you are either pro-Israel…

I hope you find the conversation you are looking for.

If Trump is running, then those racist white voters are going to vote for him. So are you really going to be willing to throw away the votes of PoC in order to “try” to win over voters who aren’t coming to your table anyways?

The saddest person in the world is the one who lets others dictate his/her moments of happiness.