Jim Crow

BDS roundup: mounting calls on Alicia Keys to cancel Israel show

African American notables issue open letter affirming Jim Crow analogy in Palestine.

Jim Crow in Palestine: parallels between US and Israeli racism

Curtis Bell
Portland
21 February 2013

Boycotts helped end segregation in the American South. Hopefully they can achieve similar results for Palestinians.

Mitt Romney, Palestinian culture and white supremacism: responses worth reading

Romney’s comments only the latest racist attacks targeting Palestinians in the long US presidential campaign. Some responses worth reading.

Israel's pinkwashing exposed as dishonest at New York debates

Uri Horesh
6 April 2012
Israel’s strategy of “pinkwashing” — using its supposedly stellar record on gay rights — to obscure abuses of Palestinian human rights has done more to provoke than to quiet criticism.

From US South to Palestine, Freedom Rides change history

Nour Joudah
16 November 2011
This week, with the Palestinian Freedom Riders taking a page from the US civil rights movement and defying Israel’s segregated road system, my histories and my homes merged in a new way.
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