American authors draw parallels between Palestine and global oppression

“I mean, Hebron is obviously just a straight-up analogue for Jim Crow and segregation.”
Acclaimed authors Ta-Nehisi Coates, Maaza Mengiste, and Eve Ewing reflected on what they saw in Palestine during the 12th edition of the Palestine Festival of Literature in May 2023.
From witnessing racial segregation in Hebron to drawing comparisons with Jim Crow laws and apartheid, the authors emphasised the global connections between struggles for justice and the importance of international solidarity.
“It’s in the small details that I have begun to understand the magnitude of this oppression. The small ways that your life and routine and predictability and your time is being taken away. I had no idea about that until I came here,” Mengiste said.
The video has resurfaced after a recent CBS Morning Show interview sparked outrage as social media users accused an anchor of bias and malpractice for suggesting Coates held “extremist” views regarding the perspective of Palestinians in his new book called The Message.
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[@adada3908]

Unbelievable violence. Total horror.

[@Human-wk1hw]

Please bless these people. Please free these people from American imperialism. Please free Palestine. ❤

[@brehgankage6242]

That was powerful. Great reporting.

[@cbel888]

PRAY and stay STRONG !must endure! FAITH SHINES NOW! ALLAHU AKBAR!

[@Human-wk1hw]

So beautiful that this man is being a voice for the Palestinians. Please free them from these colonizers.

[@Bromitos0313]

The contrast between TNC and that awful news anchor that tried to anti-Semite jacket him is remarkable.

[@wh6989]

Please do NOT forget about Judith Varnai-Shorer.

[@KarenSchwartz-d9q]

These atrocious assaults against all human fellowship and compassion will spread everywhere if Is not real isn't stopped.

[@DakotaFord592]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@HM-px5ei]

What a beautifully sad video to watch

[@RobertMiller-ph6fs]

Wow....if i didn't know any better might think thier talking about the Amish

[@Lngg_of_th_Hbrws]

הגד להם! האמת זאת!

[@سوسن-غ6ل]

I am your sister from Yemen, and by Allah I only spoke out of hunger and distress. My mother, my brothers, and I lessons and tears. We are in a situation that only God knows about. God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs for those who broughtOh people, we are your sisters, by God 😭😭😭 We do not even find a loaf of bread inside the house that would satisfy you, oh nation of Muhammad. People are brothers. Oh God, make your righteous servants subservient to us. Oh God, make your righteous servants subservient to us. My appeal to every Muslim, oh Lord, if he sees this message, may He prolong his life, make him happy, and cover him. May God reward him. God is sufficient for me, and He is the best disposer of affairs. There is no power or strength except with God. Oh people, oh nation of Muhammad, oh people of goodness, oh people of mercy. We are your sisters and your children. By God, we do not even find a loaf of bread inside the house that would satisfy you. Oh nation of Muhammad, I only spoke out of extreme hunger and distress. My mother, sisters, and I are displaced from our homes because of the war. We are in a state that no one knows about except God. God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs, against those who brought us to this state 💔💔 By God Almighty, I only wrote this appeal out of extreme poverty and poverty, oh people. I beg you by God Almighty, Lord of the Mighty Throne, that I do not have food at home. By God, my brothers and sisters have been sitting around for two days. Without food, by God our situation is very difficult, we are 6 people in the house and my father passed away and there is no one to support us and we live in a rented house and we cannot pay the rest of the rent. I am not lying to you nor deceiving you nor cheating you. I am a Yemeni girl displaced because of the war between me and my family over a rent dispute and the owner of the house. By God, my brother comes every day and humiliates us and talks about us and wants us to go out to the street because we are unable to pay him the rent. The neighbors saw us crying and talked to the neighbors again and gave us a deadline until the end of the week and we swore to God to let us out of the street now we are in arrears of 60 thousand Yemeni riyals for 3 months rent may God have mercy on us our country is suffering because of this war and we do not find our daily sustenance and we live my mother and sisters our father passed away may God have mercy on him and we do not have anyone in the world to come to us in these harsh circumstances my little sisters went out to the street and saw the neighbors eating and stood at their door giving them even a piece of bread and by God in whose hand is the heavens and the earth they closed the door and kicked them out and they came back crying dying of hunger no one has mercy on them and now the holiday has come back to me if no one of us helps us with a kilo of flour by God we will die of hunger brother I seek refuge in God and then in you and I want your help for the sake of God I ask you by God you love goodness and help me even if it is about the rent of the house send me a WhatsApp message on this number 00967711013075 and ask for my card name and send it and do not delay may God compensate you with all good My little sisters, look at their situation and help us and save us before they throw us out into the street and humiliate us or my family and I die of hunger. We ask you by God, if you are able to help us, do not delay on us, and may God reward you with good.'~~_«%•&»_~~_~&:»'////;&&;&;&;;&🎉😢😢😢😢;&;&&&//&..,!~~~♡♡♡~~~♡~♡~•~•~•~•~♡~♡~♡~;l.i.i.i.i.i.l.|-..،.،،..،.،.،،.،.،.

[@MHrnLh-e1x]

Mon petit ami a regardé cette vidéo avec moi et pense maintenant qu'il peut lui aussi devenir une star. Je pense que nous avons un nouveau hobby🍓