Ta-Nehisi Coates: I Was Told Palestine Was Complicated. Visiting Revealed a Simple, Brutal Truth

[@DemocracyNow]

Watch Part 1 of this interview: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4i8Z4OMbbyasLs

[@astonwinter]

Go watch Coleman Hughes: Ta-Nehisi Coates is a coward on Israel

[@joeboudreault4351]

@@DemocracyNow No thanks. All lies.

[@noadkl]

Christ more of this terror supporter? No thanks

[@D-E-S_8559]

IT IS NOT "COMPLICATED", it was not complicated for the NATIVE Americans, Africans, Asians, Arabs, Aborigines---they came they were conquered, they colonized and eventually settled , that is our bitter history, but it s the reality; the ONLY justice that is needed is the TRUTH... There is NO JUSTICE in Israel , because they have never accepted the TRUTH behind their occupation; instead of the known truths, they live on deliberate collective amnesia and seek to forcefully co-opt their narratives by declaring anyone with a different view "antisemetic" and any native that resists their occupation as a "terrorist"--- what is complicated instead is that we are been forced by their western allies to accept Israel's versions of an UNJUST reality... There is DARKNESS, but we have only seen the SHADOW and witnessed what benign damage it has exerted on us all. Everynow and then cometh the LIGHT to reveal the hand behind the unjust and understand how it deceives and controls us, and why; for what purpose, interest or reasons....

[@SamSung-nf6tr]

CBS interview did Coates a favor. Sales skyrocketed after the interview.

[@IbnGreenberg]

He masterfully answered that loaded question on CBS with so much intelligence, patience and compassion! I mean, I wish I can meet confrontation with that much grace.

[@jusletursoulglobaby]

when you anticipate "some bullsh..." you prepared for it. its when we're caught off guard that we are unable to maintain composure. he a real one - i know he knew there would be something. maybe not as crass as it was, but i think he was ready. you would be too

[@PerryWidhalm]

LOL

[@IcarianX]

I would have either responded with vitriol, rage and accusations of my own, or simply walked out... He has the patience of a saint... I guess people who know what it's like to be silenced or ignored have to learn patience.

[@nickandrusin7122]

He expertly handled that

[@JODura1]

count me in as a member of this club.

[@nataschavisser573]

I'm a white South African who visited Israel on a school tour in the late 1990s. The tour was mostly focussed on the country's religious significance but I saw enough to come away thinking that Israel was run like South Africa was under apartheid. I felt guilty about this thought because I was raised to think of Israel as the Holy Land and so forth. Realising that it was a settler colony like my own country was jarring. Since then the opression of the Palestinians have intensified to where comparing it to aparheid no longer seems apt. While apartheid was dressed up in all sorts of racist social darwininst rhetoric, it was at its heart a system of economic exploitation. Black people were first taxed and then increasingly disposessed of their land, not that they should leave the country or die, but that they would be forced to work on white-owned farms and industries for low wages. It was vile and unjust and it immiserated generations of people, but it was not genocidal. There does not seem to be the same impulse behind Israeli land seizures in the West Bank and the embargo of Gaza. The displaced and immisserated Palestinians are not incorporated into the Israeli economy to any great extent, instead they are expected to magically dissapear somehow. The Israeli regime has been genocidal since prior to 7 October 2023. 7 Oct just gave them an alibi to justify escalating their efforts.

[@miskakerdez3750]

Thanks for the compelling comparison to South Africa.

[@barryklarman2720]

That’s interesting because many South Africans come away with an entirely different take on it.

[@ronstephen-wy4ib]

Hasbara Barry:

[@nazk5558]

Thank you for your insight and eloquently explaining the different intent of the 2 regimes. Having grown up as a non white in south Africa, I think Israeli apartheid is actually worse.

[@mauracassidy1762]

THERE IS AN EXCELLENT VIDEO ON KZbin WHICH ACTUALLY COMPARES ISRAELI APARTHEID & SOUTH AFRICAN APARTHEID AND FOUND THAT ISRAELI APARTHEID IS MUCH WORSE ! ! THE FILM IS BY JOURNEYMAN FILMS - AND IT IS CALLED - " A SHOCKING INSIGHT INTO ISRAELI APARTHEID / ROADMAP TO APARTHEID " IT WAS DATED OCTOBER 2023. ITS FULL OF FACTS & INSIGHTS & A GREAT MIX OF INTERVIEWS - ONE OF THE CONTRIBUTORS IN THE FILM IS - ALI ABUNIMAH - THE CO FOUNDER OF THE EXCELLENT INFORMATIVE - " ELECTRONIC INTIFADA " CHANNEL - ON KZbin - WHICH ALSO HAS A GREAT WEBSITE. HOPEFULLY, IF YOU WATCH THE VIDEO - KZbin WILL PUT SIMILAR CONTENT VIDEOS INTO YOUR FEED - I HAVE WATCHED A FEW ABOUT ISRAELI APARTHEID - BUT I DONT REMEMBER THE TITLES. I HOPE YOU AND EVERYONE HERE GETS TO WATCH IT. I WILL JUST ADD FOR CONTEXT ANOTHER TOP VIDEO ON KZbin WHICH HAS STUCK WITH ME - A VIDEO ABOUT THE BLOODY CREATION OF ISRAEL AND WHAT WAS DONE TO AND TAKEN FROM THE PEACEFUL AND TOTALLY UNPREPARED PALESTINIAN PEOPLE - MAINLY POOR FARMERS - THE EVICTION / ATTACKS WAS UNDERTAKEN IMMEDIATELY - WITHIN HOURS OF THE U.N. PASSING THE RESOLUTION TO SUPPORT THE FOUNDING OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL - IT IS CALLED - " THE STONES CRY OUT " IT IS SPECIFICALLY, ABOUT THE EVICTION & DESTRUCTION OF A CHRISTIAN PALESTINIAN VILLAGE - IN THE 1948 NAKBAR - ONE OF 550 PALESTINIAN VILLAGES - ATTACKED & EVICTED & DESTROYED BY THE ZIONISTS TERRORIST MILITIA WHICH HAD JUST MORPHED INTO THE IDF. ALMOST ONE MILLION PALESTINIAN REFUGEES PUT ON THE ROAD AND SHOT ON SIGHT IF THEY RETURNED FOR ANY REASON - AND REALLY NO WAY OF KNOWING HOW MANY PALESTINIANS WERE KILLED / EXECUTED. AL JALZEERA DID A GREAT DETAILED 3 PART SERIES ON THE NAKBAR ( THE CATASTROPHE) THE OLD PICS & OLD FILM IN THESE VIDEOS ALONG WITH THE INTERVIEWS - BRINGS THE PLACE & THE PEOPLE & THE TIME TO LIFE AND PROVE THAT PALESTINE WAS NEVER " A LAND WITHOUT A PEOPLE " AS THE LAND GRABBING COLONIALIST, LYING, ZIONIST IMMIGRANTS CLAIMED. ! MY CURRENT FAVOURITE BOOK / EXPOSE ON THE CREATION OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL - IS CALLED " AGAINST OUR BETTER JUDGEMENT " BY ALISON WEIR - AN INDEPENDANT JOURNALIST WHO WENT TO PALESTINE AND WAS SO SHOCKED BY WHAT SHE ENCOUNTERED - SHE DID GREAT INDEPTH RESEARCH INTO THE PEOPLE, US & UK GOVERNMENTS AND THE DIRTY DEEDS ATTACHED TO THE FOUNDING OF ISRAEL - ITS AN IMPORTANT AND QUITE SHOCKING BOOK.

[@km1dash6]

The CBS interview made me immediately go out and buy the book from my local independent book store.

[@Jason_The_Man]

Well, aren’t you a wonderful little MacBook Marxist. 😂

[@evelync177]

I immediately went to my local public library to borrow the book and dive in, but it's on "hold" from all the other borrowers who want to read it too!

[@shadowoflugia]

Okay you’re better than me cause I immediately bought the ebook from my preferred e-reader (not Kobo)… But I might get a physical copy from my independent bookstore after reading it on ebook.

[@silkcitysocialist420]

I'm going to definitely buy a few copies and share with friends.

[@carloa2500]

​@evelync177 in the library near me, there are 98 people on hold.

[@CurtisCT]

About 10 years ago one of my friends, black American, visited Israel with his flight attendant wife. He sometimes accompanied her on a lot of trips because as her husband, he was able to fly for free. For the record his wife was white with blonde hair and blue eyes. When he got back from Israel he was visibly shaken and vowed NEVER AGAIN to set foot in that country. He told me that on several occasions he'd be walking down the street with his wife at his side when he'd be approached by soldiers or security personnel demanding to see his "papers" or demanding to know where he was coming from and where he was going. His wife, on the other hand, was NEVER stopped and NEVER questioned! It got so bad that for his last few days in Israel he just stayed in his hotel rather than expose himself to being interrogated every 15 minutes. To be honest, at the time I thought he was just exaggerating, for why would Israel, a Western democracy, openly discriminate against people of color? After hearing Ta-Nehisi Coates speak about his own experiences in Israel, I now know that my friend was actually telling the truth. Another interesting thing he mentioned was being very surprised that half the Jewish people he met and saw in Israel were actually British or American nationals (he could tell because of their accents). It made him sick to his stomach to think that these people actually left the UK/US and voluntarily relocated to a country that actively subjugated its non-Jewish population to apartheid. What kind of person feels good about traveling halfway round the world to participate in apartheid?

[@brunogirard6920]

To answer the last question you asked...you forgot American history?

[@jackieburns5257]

Thank you for sharing

[@eltorocal]

Watch: Rouge Nation Long Island Audit San Joaquin Valley Transparency LackLuster Southern Drawl Law Open Government Investigations Accountability For All Honor Your Oath Civil Rights Investigations Craig Hendry Flex Your Freedoms CT3 James Freeman ...and more. American cops are being trained by IsraHELLi forces.

[@samehabuerreish8785]

Now that’s the real Judeo Christianity we all come to love !!😂

[@jrock2019]

Native American land treaties where never promised or respected

[@mikekelly4702]

a brave man telling the truth

[@mof5490]

Your truth

[@eltorocal]

@@mof5490 John 8:44 ...the jeezus-dude said to the jews: "...your father and my father are not the same... your father is the Devil"... so the jews beat the jeezus-dude half to death, dragged him in front of the Romans and demanded that they NAIL him to a cross until Dead. So they did.

[@brothamike5000]

And Jamal Bowman, who saw the same things in Palestine.

[@barryklarman2720]

SMH

[@samsung40_media87]

*THE* Truth. I mean how do you not see the settler colonial playbook throughout the history of the world? South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, China, South America, AFRICA and of course the satanic isreali state

[@marylander3798]

I'm a fellow Howard University grad, I was friends with Ta-Nehisi's brother in undergrad. I'm also a Baltimorean, so I feel immense pride whenever Ta-Nehisi puts any work into the world. Great interview, thanks for continuing to highlight this apartheid and genocide.

[@RedBlackGreenAK]

Damani? Fellow HU grad here. Know them both from my years in D.C.

[@mattconstantine9884]

lol yeah, its all so simple especially how the countries (5 of them) attacking israel ARE SO MUCH WORSE THAN APARTHEID lol yemen has literal slavery 600k muslims slaughtered in syria iraq is a REAL great place for women lebanon is literally cuckolded by a vassal terrorist organization who is itself just an arm of the iranian government and all of that is before you get to iran. simple. very simple. whats simple? the people who think they know things about this conflict and believe dum dums like mr coates who thinks he can figure out the middle east in ten days without ever mentioning any terrorists hahahahahahahahahah.... yeah. those people are simple

[@jacobnehman]

I urge you not to be so quick to assume Coates knows what he's talking about. He doesn't. This accusation of genocide and apartheid onto Israel is completely false. In fact, what happened to Sephardic Jews when they were exiled from Arab countries was genocide. 20% of Israelis are Arabs, and they have full and equal rights as citizens in every sense of the idea. An Arab Muslim justice of the Supreme Court put an Israeli president behind bars. Arabs serve on police forces all throughout the country. Arabs serve in the army, even though they do not have to. They are doctors, teachers in integrated Arab/Jewish schools and schools that are mainly Jewish schools. They are business leaders and representatives in the Israeli parliament. I ride buses with Arabs all the time. Their children play in the same playgrounds with Jewish childrens. I could go on and on. I am an American. I've lived in Israel for 18 years. There is NO apartheid in Israel. If there were, I would be among the first to protest it.

[@SixOneNiner23]

❤

[@marylander3798]

@@RedBlackGreenAK Menelik

[@susanallison183]

This is a voice we must hear.

[@Dovelunalove]

yes so glad to have read his book 🙌🏽

[@adrianabotello9911]

@@JackFieldBand No, the IDF commits crimes against humanity

[@eltorocal]

@@JackFieldBand Israeli Soldiers Wear Images of Dead Palestinian Babies on T-shirts : “Dead babies, mothers weeping on their children's grave, a child in the crosshairs of a sniper's rifle and blown-up mosques are just a few of the images with which IDF soldiers decided to mark their graduation from a training course or tour of duty.” “Israeli soldiers were found wearing T-shirts of a pregnant woman in a rifle’s crosshairs with the slogan “1 Shot 2 Kills,” and another of a gun-toting child with the words, “The smaller they are, the harder it is.” Source : Haraatz, CBSNews, DenverPost, NYDailyNews, etc That was 2009. Now, Israel is openly targeting mothers and children in their genocide against the people in Palestine. They project what they’re guilty of on the Palestinian people.

[@Smarterthanyew]

Noone swallows your crap any more​ @@JackFieldBand

[@ronstephen-wy4ib]

What's the difference between how people think of Nazi sympathisers and Israeli sympathisers? 2 years!

[@gloriouse4458]

WE STAND WITH THIS ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS HUMAN BEING 😃👋🏼🇵🇸❣️🖤🤍💚

[@Genocide2024]

Thanks for speaking out against genocide.

[@chillyoil528]

@@JackFieldBand wow thats so wrong i dont know where to begin

[@Songmyz]

@@JackFieldBand Clearly you know nothing prior to October 7.

[@JackFieldBand]

​​​​@@SongmyzThey made Oct 7th to do a prisoner exchange deal. They can release the hostages unconditionally and the war will end. But Hamas insists its high-profile prisoners be released first.

[@whiteyobanion1104]

@@JackFieldBand They offered to release the hostages LONG ago but lil Bibi said no, he wants this.

[@JackFieldBand]

​@@whiteyobanion1104Israel can't release murderers. Why is it so hard to understand?

[@mantshonyanelent1652]

Grace to you for standing for the oppressed Mr Ta-Nehisi Coates🙏❤

[@mbroitt]

😂😂😂

[@thepiratebaker1662]

Who's oppressed?

[@dlee6014]

​@@thepiratebaker1662the american tax payer, for the 2 billion annually going to tel aviv.

[@thepiratebaker1662]

@dlee6014 what a crock Maybe you should learn what FMA actually is- nothing more than loan guarantees so that Israel can ONLY buy American weapons BTW dear Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, not Tel Aviv

[@AZ-hg6kw]

Tell AIPAC to get the hell out of US politics! The Dems had a golden opportunity and still do. They're 100% BLOWING IT.

[@technoloverish]

CAIR too. Both of them are groups that lobby for foreign countries

[@kasperkappin]

AIPIC has a significant grip on American politics precisely because it is in the interest of the US military-industrial complex and US empire for it to have such influence. Allowing AIPIC to have such power solidifies Israel as a proxy colony to the US that guarantees the security of US imperial oil interests in the Middle East. The military industrial complex’s lobbying dwarfs that of AIPIC; and CUFI (christians united for Israel) has over 50 times as many members as AIPIC. So the Israel lobby is so much more than AIPIC, and its success is largely the result of US imperial and Christian evangelical interests. Getting fully rid of AIPIC would require (among other things) getting the military-industrial complex out of US politics, which I fear would be nearly an impossible feat. The national democratic party is largely just as snuggled up with the arms complex as is the Republican Party.

[@MrsBaba]

I wish we could get rid of AIPAC but if you look at who they fund- it shows clearly on their website that they pay out much more to the Democratic Party - it’s all infiltrated .

[@SaraMod-oo8kr]

But then how would US politicians get rich ?

[@technoloverish]

@@kasperkappin So you think most Middle Eastern countries are progressive leftist countries then?

[@MrsBaba]

As a second generation Palestinian American , the questioning of the IDF about ancestors is such common practice . Every time I’m stopped in Israel, it’s the ridiculous questions about my heritage to give reason why they should treat me with injustice . My entire family goes through these ancestry questioning … it should be stopped . I’m thrilled to read Coates book ! Thank for I interviewing him

[@jkengineeringarchitecture.]

Maximum Respect Ta- Nehisi to be a voice for the voice less. The Palestinian people deserve to have self determination just like any other people on the face of the earth.

[@sandal_thong8631]

If a one-state solution is unacceptable to Israelis, and a two-state solution is unacceptable to Israelis, then what's left, a final solution?

[@joeboudreault4351]

@sandal_thong8631 Palestinians want a one-state solution: annihilate all the Jews... (ie WW2 Nazi solution). They've publicly stated so. For over a century, they've strove for this evil. Israel simply wants peace for all Jews. Why can't you figure this out?

[@MyWeedIsVeryGood]

They did. Israel left Gaza in 2005. They received billions of dollars. Israel left a lot of infrastructure for them to be self sufficient, but they burned it all down and ripped the pipes out of the ground for rockets

[@soroushse658]

If is not Jews is not news @apostateprophet you are hamas sympathizers and every Palestinian dead is on your hands because you dont tell terrorists to seek peace and friendship with Jews.

[@Marco90731]

How many other People on Earth enjoy Self-determination. Scarce these Days with the dominant Corporate, Global Powers undermining Democratic Processes .

[@oghyeahoo6165]

Coates is what American greatness should look like!

[@theotherview1716]

😂😂😂

[@barryklarman2720]

Lord help us

[@oghyeahoo6165]

@@theotherview1716 Name a great American.. Trump doesn't count 😂😂😂

[@oghyeahoo6165]

@@barryklarman2720 Do you disagree w/ my comment?

[@joeboudreault4351]

​@@oghyeahoo6165 Why not?

[@sandracandelaria2055]

A very important message for ALL of US to hear especially Black Americans. 💚

[@theresamay9481]

As a Palestinian American, I've heard "its complicated" my whole life. Since 10.07.23, listening to so many people who've been in Palestine, I realized it really IS simple. I've listened to horrible stories from my family for decades.

[@JamaFaisal-o3k]

I can remember when I was a child in Somalia and I didn't know much about the world in the 1980s I learned about the injustice that takes place in Palestine and what Palestinians go through. Since then nothing has changed about the way Palestinians get treated and it only got worse. May Allah give them freedom from this oppression that had to endure for close to 8 decades.

[@imthatbishhh5152]

I’m black and need yall to stop attacking black folks. Thanks that’s all I got to say

[@alysiaduemler2221]

So if you were listening to them on 10/07/23 you heard that most of the population CELEBRATED the murder of innocent BABIES in the racist anti-Jewish pogrom that they did on CIVILIANS and CHILDREN and HOLOCAUST survivors. It IS simple: wanting to murder Jewish people and give them NO Rights to their land of 3,000 years, and y'all rejecting EVERY offer of peace and a state. Islamism wanting Jews as Dhimmies in APARTHEID and less equal rights, not allowed in Gaza even, despite ancient connection, not 1 Jew was allowed in Gaza, and did you not THINK the Israelis would NOT have gone into Gaza if Palestinians didn't have CHILDREN hostage and keep shooting rockets trying to kill them and saying they will do October 7 over and over again? I AM AGAINST THE WAR I want all the hostages released NOW And if you ask for that the war might just end, I want NO MORE children in Gaza killed it is horrible, but you gotta start taking some personal responsibility, why is it ONLY on Israel? Think. Israel didn't even go into Gaza until October 10th...the fact you stated the 7th says a lot...did you even denounce it or were you eating Knaffeh too?

[@Fenristripplex]

You moral compass is broken.

[@taliasya2273]

😢🤝

[@Rippypoo]

Thanks, Amy. GREAT interview.

[@dustin9132]

She's the best.

[@zombiehampster1397]

The "Palestinian and Jewish safety are intertwined" sign is spot on. Succinct and speaks volumes. That CBS interview...Dokoupil had the nerve to tell him he's still invited to some holiday get-together lol, that was just the icing on the cake. That interview was insulting beyond the norm that i would expect from corporate media. Coates response was great and congrats to him for not flying off the handle on them and keeping his cool. Coates comment at the very end of the interview reflect exactly how I feel about the issue. Great interview.

[@ellanina801]

Yeah people seem to forget that. Jewish does not equate zionism, and vice versa. We need to stand with our Jewish allies. We need to protect them-because they are the most actively silenced. They have to push harder and risk more to be allied…. ie: the “self hating jew” trope.

[@tonyagibbs1963]

So insulting and condescending. He called him a terror*st and then tell him to stop by for high holidays. Ugh! He knew he was wrong.

[@ronstephen-wy4ib]

Maybe he regularly invites terrorists to dinner? Showing his character, eh!

[@adinahaun6001]

Congratulations on the marvelous book and deep bows of gratitude to Mr. Coates for writing it!

[@Cauldron6]

Great interview with Mr Coates, keep advocating!!!

[@rachelduncan1501]

Never heard of him before this - profoundly impressed and definitely going to buy and read the book.

[@financialservicesprofessio7377]

Me either. He's incredible.

[@tempacc9589]

Thank you Ta-Nehisi and Amy

[@fifitz100]

He's a brilliant man

[@JackFieldBand]

The Palestinians sacrificed 41K for their murderous prisoners.

[@michaeldean6709]

​@JackFieldBand no matter how many times you copy and paste this, it'll never make you look like you know what you are talking about.

[@adrianabotello9911]

@@JackFieldBand@JackFieldBand No, the IDF commits crimes against humanity.

[@eltorocal]

@@JackFieldBand There are over 10,000 innocent Palestinian captives still held in concentration camps and cages throughout the STOLEN land called IsraHELL.

[@rodflo2979]

Ta-Nehisi Coates has a moral compass that is much to be admired. Continue to be the voice for the voiceless sir It is vital that his book "The Message" needs to dominate the best sellers list for years to come

[@reubenpilli6549]

Ta Nehisi Coates: What a beautiful human being...with a beautiful name...and a brilliant mind...and above all, a compassionate soul.

[@SalomeOchoa-x3q]

Wow I’m sorry I having sleep with the control news 😡

[@KristinaUSA-x5n]

Read Farah Ahmedi’s On the Other Side of the Sky about Afghanistan. They are starting to write about Palestinian experiences also.

[@jamesSmith-kz3ln]

AMEN

[@theotherview1716]

😂😂😂

[@aplum4218]

​@@theotherview1716Live in mom's basement, huh. Go keyboard warriors!!

[@Woke_White_Woman]

I admire and respect Ta-Nehisi Coates and Eva Borgwardt so much. Thank you for giving them both a Voice to speak for the Voiceless

[@D-E-S_8559]

--- IT IS NOT "COMPLICATED", it was not complicated for the NATIVE Americans, Africans, Asians, Arabs, Aborigines---they came they were conquered, they colonized and eventually settled , that is our bitter history, but it s the reality; the ONLY justice that is needed is the TRUTH... There is NO JUSTICE in Israel , because they have never accepted the TRUTH behind their occupation; instead of the known truths, they live on deliberate collective amnesia and seek to forcefully co-opt their narratives by declaring anyone with a different view "antisemetic" and any native that resists their occupation as a "terrorist"--- what is complicated instead is that we are been forced by their western allies to accept Israel's versions of an UNJUST reality....

[@kriezler]

Thank you Ta-Nehisi. If our "ethics" and "values" have led us to this, we don't deserve to be a world power. Furthermore, we have demonstrated to the world that "Democracy" is no better than a totalitarian state.

[@TheGanjologist]

Tbf no form of governance will turn out well when the people in charge are bad people

[@Gulchih]

Such an underrated, wise comment! 🎯

[@chuletaization]

I agree. Our ethics and values manifest in what we do and what we allow to be done in our name not what we claim they are and not what is written on an old yellow parchment we like to hide under.

[@מידגהלוחמיהגטאות]

Well then!? why don't you migrate to a totalitarian state siriya maybe ... your assessment is so detached from reality that only a man in a democratic state can say something so dumb and not be arrested for it

[@yourmother2739]

We do not have a democracy.

[@arimas1977]

Such a man! So articulate and honest!

[@Amatullah.574]

Why wouldn't he be articulate? Please don't say that when you hear black men speak English.

[@skuusonius2660]

Another great interview

[@JackFieldBand]

The Palestinians sacrificed 41K for their murderous prisoners.

[@eltorocal]

@@JackFieldBand Hitler said: “Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it” “And to think that there are those who believe that we are exterminating the Jews, when in fact the program is for relocation to the Russian marshes. It’s not a bad idea, by the way, to let these rumors of extermination spread. Terror always has a salutary effect.” "The victor will never be asked if he told the truth." "The only words you'll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you used to hurt people" "Why does the world shed crocodile’s tears over the richly merited fate of a small Jewish minority? … I ask Roosevelt, I ask the American people: Are you prepared to receive in your midst these well-poisoners of the German people and the universal spirit of Christianity? We would willingly give everyone of them a free steamer-ticket and a thousand-mark note for travelling expenses, if we could get rid of them." (Quoted in N H Baynes, The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, Oxford University Press, 1942, Volume I, pp.727-28) "Germany will regard the Jewish question as solved only after the very last Jew has left the greater German living space... Europe will have its Jewish question solved only after the very last Jew has left the continent." (Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Vol.3, Nuremberg, 1947, p. 35) "We swear we are not going to abandon the struggle until the Last Jew in Europe has been exterminated and is actually dead. It is not enough to isolate the Jewish enemy of mankind-the Jew has got to be exterminated." (Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Vol.3, Nuremberg, 1947, p. 36) "The second German secret weapon is anti-Semitism, because if it is consistently pursued by Germany, it will become a universal problem which all nations will be forced to consider." (Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Vol.3, Nuremberg, 1947, p. 36) "Anti-Semitism is the unifying element of the reconstruction of Germany." (Referred to at the Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Vol.3, Nuremberg, 1947, p. 35) "One of the principle reasons for the legislation in Germany is the necessity to combat Bolshevism. This legislation is not anti-Jewish, but pro-German. The rights of Germans are thereby to be protected against destructive Jewish influences. … the Jews who formed less than one per cent. of the population tried to monopolize the cultural leadership of the people and flooded the intellectual professions, such as, for example, jurisprudence and medicine. The influence of this intellectual Jewish class in Germany had everywhere a disintegrating effect . For this reason in order to bar the spread of this process of disintegration it became essential to take steps to establish a clear and clean separation between the two races. He stressed [that these legislative measures] served to protect the Jew, and this was proved by the fact that since the passing of the restrictive measures anti-Jewish sentiment in the country decreased. (Interview with Mr Baillie of the United Press, quoted in N H Baynes, The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, Oxford University Press, 1942, Volume I, pp.732) "They complain… of the boundless cruelty with which Germany-and now Italy also-seek to rid themselves of their Jewish elements. All these great democratic empires taken together have only a handful of people to the square kilometre. Both in Italy and Germany there are over 140. Yet formerly Germany, without blinking an eyelid, for whole decades admitted these Jews by the hundred thousand. But now… when the nation is no longer willing to be sucked dry by these parasites, on every side one hears nothing but laments. But lamentations have not led these democratic countries to substitute helpful activity at last for their hypocritical questions; on the contrary, these countries with icy coldness assured us that obviously there was no place for the Jews in their territory. … So no help is given, but morality is saved. (Source: The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939. Edited by N H Haynes. Volume I, pp.719-720 Oxford University Press, 1942) "So, we are now going to have a total solution to the Jewish question. The programme is clear. It reads: total separation, total segregation! What does this mean? It does not only mean the total exclusion of the Jews from the German economic system... It means much more! No German can be expected to live under the same roof as Jews. The Jews must be chased out of our houses and our residential districts and made to live in rows or blocks of houses where they can keep to themselves and come into contact with Germans as little as possible. They must be clearly identified.... And when we compel the rich Jews to provide for the `poor' of their race, which will certainly be necessary, they will all sink together into a pit of criminality. As this happens, we will be faced with the harsh necessity of eradicating the Jewish underworld, just as we root out criminals from our own orderly state: with fire and sword. The result will be the certain and absolute end of Jewry in Germany; its complete annihilation!" [Source: Benno Müller-Hill. Murderous Science. New York: CSHL Press, 1998, p.48] "Europe cannot find peace until the Jewish question has been solved. …One thing I should like to say on this day [the sixth anniversary of his being appointed Chancellor of the Reich] which may be memorable for others as well as for us Germans. In the course of my life I have very often been a prophet and have usually been ridiculed for it. … Today I will once more be a prophet: if the international Jewish financiers in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the result will not be the Bolshivization of the earth, and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe."

[@abuahmad67]

We would truly be lost without Democracy Now and so many other great KZbin agents of Truth. Medi Hassen etc.

[@YankaSmith]

Oh, sweetheart, clearly you're already lost!

[@mahnoornazar6956]

​@@YankaSmithyou are clearly

[@SixOneNiner23]

It’ll likely be gone very soon 😩

[@kewsr6972]

If you're getting backlash while defending Palestine and human rights in today's world, you're clearly doing something right

[@mogamadgreyson143]

Ask Richard Medhurst and Scott Ritter how hard that is..😢

[@eltorocal]

@@mogamadgreyson143 Those 2 are excellent journalists... activists.

[@HannaH-pk1ry]

💯 %

[@AUnityInDiversity]

​​@@mogamadgreyson143 it's a shame what the UK government, and isnotreal are doing to Richard Medhurst. His voice is silenced for now, but he'll be back.

[@moralfortitude...2217]

@@kewsr6972 *THIS* !!!

[@VernonNickersonSCHOOLCOACH]

Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez ❤️ ♥️ 🖖🖖👍👌👏🏽👏🏽👏🏾👏🏾 Thank you for giving Mr. Coates a chance to speak out so powerfully, and profoundly.

[@IssaMeMariooo]

A very well-spoken gentleman. The way he handled the CBS interviewer's question was both very classy and very on point. As a Palestinian myself, I thank you for giving me a voice.

[@deankaraman2086]

No such thing as a palestinian.....it's a blob of land not an ethnicity.......you are squatting on Judea and lying by calling it palestine.

[@motaku7525]

I'm with you, Issa, as a Jewish American. Much praise to Ta-Nehisi, who is probably VERY popular among AMerican 'liberals,' including many Jews who are 'Progressive except for Palestine' - now they gotta tell this Black man, who knows what it's like to be wiped out, that he's 'antisemitic' or some other nonsense.

[@IssaMeMariooo]

@@motaku7525 All love to you, my ally in humanity, through all the noise and chaos that might stand between us ❤️

[@Larry-qu5fz]

Where were you when I was oppressed?

[@Larry-qu5fz]

​@@motaku7525Where were you when I was tortured in psychiatric inpatient units and nursing homes? Forget about the "I'm sorries." I know the game. You know you would have done nothing. 😢😢

[@manuelashirinknapp9153]

❤thanks that you are here on the world. Greatings from Switzerland.

[@deegarcia613]

This is why I donate to Democracy Now

[@zuluvegans6897]

How can I donate to Democracy Now from South Africa? 🇿🇦👍🏽🇿🇦

[@tjvirginia1319]

@@zuluvegans6897 she gave the link at the beginning of the video

[@zuluvegans6897]

@@tjvirginia1319 thanks so much, will watch again 👍🏼

[@realestate5032]

He is so knowledgeable, passionate for his cause to let the silent voice be heard. Thank you for your work. We support you and appreciate you educating us all that truly don’t know things. Also for exposing those who do know and do nothing.❤

[@cartermckenzie2535]

A courageous voice. Gratitude for Coates' work and commitment to bearing witness.

[@zuluvegans6897]

Ta-Nehisi, you are one of the global voices of reason where humanity (ubuntu - as we call it in Southern Africa) still reigns. May god bless you. You remind many South Africas of a young Nelson Mandela. Good luck on your the upcoming US elections and let there be peace in the world … 🙏🏼

[@D-E-S_8559]

.... IT IS NOT "COMPLICATED", it was not complicated for the NATIVE Americans, Africans, Asians, Arabs, Aborigines---they came they were conquered, they colonized and eventually settled , that is our bitter history, but it s the reality; the ONLY justice that is needed is the TRUTH... There is NO JUSTICE in Israel , because they have never accepted the TRUTH behind their occupation; instead of the known truths, they live on deliberate collective amnesia and seek to forcefully co-opt their narratives by declaring anyone with a different view "antisemetic" and any native that resists their occupation as a "terrorist"--- what is complicated instead is that we are been forced by their western allies to accept Israel's versions of an UNJUST reality....

[@jasondaveries9716]

Ta nehisi coates thank you for supporting palestine 🇵🇸 ❤

[@pv8340]

Too bad he didnt highlight the many killings before the bombings of members of the LGBTQ community.

[@soroushse658]

If is not Jews is not news @apostateprophet you are hamas sympathizers and every Palestinian dead is on your hands because you dont tell terrorists to seek peace and friendship with Jews.

[@PamDigiovanni]

He handled that interview so well! Kudos to Mr. Coates!

[@antjeespinaco6019]

Excellent interview ! It’s about time that I hear this important issue being discussed . Thank you .

[@maxenzie5798]

The way he replied to that loaded question choked me up. I had heard of Ta-Nehisi Coates years ago but never read his books or heard him speak. Very impressed with his poise and composure, and above all his quest to give voice to the voiceless. I will definitely be getting his book.

[@gabbycarter965]

Sorry to say this, but I am tired of hearing about how tragic October 7th 2023 was to the people of Israel. That state has been doing horrible things to Palestinians for decades.

[@Walter-x1j]

Yes, you are tired to hear about Jews. You want them disappear.

[@trudylookinglass4079]

Couldn't agree more- sick of hearing Israel AND the US using one day as an excuse to cleanse an entire region =BS

[@ellanina801]

It’s a tactic to re-write the timeline. If you look past the smoke and behind the mirrors, the zionist movement is using jewish lives as human shields to promote it’s agenda. Decades of brainwashing to promote a political movement that was started in europe by an atheist… and with USA collusion. Propoganda even for us in the usa. I’m not convinced that the Holocaust wasn’t enacted as a means to this same end-it’s the same tactics the military uses: stripping people of their identities and then retraining them to be war machines. It seems like usa is the father, germany is the mother, and israel is the child…. All of the same war machine agenda, and to have oower in the middle east, which we are effectively in the same war that we were in closer to 2000.

[@mogamadgreyson143]

Exactly,and they will milk it to the endth degree..

[@sagimorozov9590]

Who are the Palestinians you are speaking about?

[@Lala_papa]

He is such a brilliant, compassionate man! And that was an excellent interview! Thank you!

[@icraftcrafts8685]

this is probably one of the best exposures i've ever seen in usa. hopefully many many people see it.

[@BigU512]

And the more people are aware of what he did the campaign to bring him down will ramp up

[@jakinthebox7309]

@@BigU512Yep. Those devils are already in conference scheming of ways to get him fired and to cut off his revenue streams.

[@Fenristripplex]

It's propaganda.

[@RegalToneT]

Great interview! I admire his bravery to speak about something that has been given the backseat by mainstream media and journalists alike. Platforms like this have an enormous impact because it’s not apart of the bias media that engulfs America. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾💛♥️

[@sheriarthur4789]

Thank you to Ta-Nehisi Coates for standing up for Palestinian humanity 🇵🇸🍉

[@geddyflea6645]

10/7 showed inhumanity

[@desertpirate9413]

Tony Dokoupil would have been fired if he confronted him like that in support of the Palestinians but because he was supporting Israel, he was “rebuked”.

[@igorfreeke8368]

Ta-Nehisi Coates proves himself eloquent and dignified (I don't have any less high-flown words at hand) 👍🙏💪🏾

[@KarimaMoubarik-q1x]

Bless you, bless your bravery, and bless your writing!

[@shlomojesus971]

Great author/reporter and a courageous human being.

[@Lilstarshine]

Most amazing interview I've seen in a long time!

[@elizavatsky3262]

thank god for Ta-nehisi Coates

[@cuevasmohr]

Thank you for letting me know Ta-Nehisi Coates. Listening to a great human being like him made me optimistic and hopeful that all our eyes can be opened for the future of Palestine and that the 40K dead won’t die in vain.

[@Blackronin357]

I hope Coates sees this comment. You are a treasure and I would love for you to sit and speak w/ Harris to convince her to understand this issue in terms as a Black and Asian woman who an understanding of what Jim crow and apartheid means and how it's being applied to Palestinians.

[@ellanina801]

She won’t. I think she has fully succumbed to “proximity “. She is firm in her support of israel and aipac. Also firm in lacking of support for the Black community (she’s against reparative actions). Im pro-reparations, myself. And coming from this side, Kamala is by all standards “proximate.” She is palatable to the whote brotherhood because then they can say they aren’t racist or sexist because they “voted for a Black Woman.” And it’s a way to gain more support for The System by POC.

[@IcarianX]

Kamala won't listen to Coates. She know what Israel is doing is wrong, but she's scared of the lobbies acting in support of Israel. She doesn't want to pick those fights. And she knows that it's not a key issue for most voters. She's not an ideological Zionist, but she is cynical and drinking the Democrat kool aid regarding strategy and priorities

[@mogamadgreyson143]

She knows it,they are all just hungry for power..

[@yourmother2739]

It would a miracle if it worked because she has no morals.

[@tymax6751]

Harris isn't black. She's a con artist.

[@KatVB462]

His response was perfection. "You have to imagine a world in which a Palestinian-American journalist could be on a mainstream show, like CBS This Morning, and confront someone who wrote a book defending Israel with that kind of aggression." Exactly. Perfectly said. Because we know the mainstream media would never allow that to happen.

[@xoxou5388]

@KatVB462 Such a scenario would see the Palestinian-American journalist marched out of the studio in everyone's view and fired with cause, and all the MSM would be out in full force to defend the action. Mehdi Hasan, Marc Lamont Hill, Briahna Joy Gray et al., didn't even scratch the surface of the issues but have all been fired! Welcome to the land of the free. SMH.

[@SalomeOchoa-x3q]

Amen about time Some one is telling the truth.

[@Amatullah.574]

Many do but are silenced

[@mugepurvis2955]

Thank you for your compassion, and bravery telling their story . Thank you for being the voice of voiceless.

[@acadianjr]

In my family's tradition, it is the aunties and grandmothers who tell the story. In summation, they were stories of intolerance. You are in a unique position because you have an education and people pay attention to what you say. Don't forget to listen to the aunties and grannies! God bless you!

[@kinglewisjtl24]

I’m proud of you Coates! I remember disliking you so much but you are now proving perspectives can shift for those of good faith

[@mscardioqueen]

Calling for a ceasefire but continually providing financial and weaponry support. It's the contradiction for me.

[@andreww5574]

Absolute insanity

[@therhymeimpersonatorshow]

I thank this man for his humanity 🙏🇯🇲❤️🇵🇸 I've seen the reports on the conflict from that same anchor before all delivered with no honesty factual truth or transparency. I was not surprised that he would try to belittle the hard work and intelligence of this accomplished journalist on prime time TV 😳 unbelievable 🤦 he resign or be fired immediately! 🇯🇲❤️🇵🇸

[@Music-Books]

That was a good interview. Obviously, Jim Crow is still alive and well. Maybe in a different form and different country, but the US still supports it.

[@PamDigiovanni]

It’s called google old Racism!

[@keisua]

Every time I hear this man speak, I can't help but shed tears. He truly highlights the ways in which we could have better questions and better conversations. Thank you Ta-Nehisi Coates and the DN family.

[@docholiday8029]

Simple truths: Heroes are against genocide Villains are for genocide Only Villains disagree

[@SarahBishop-e8b]

Simpleton.

[@8ustednut419]

@@SarahBishop-e8bVillain

[@SpaceyMonkey75]

@@SarahBishop-e8b Barbaric monster. No, please enlighten us; Under what circumstances might genocide be acceptable?

[@SpaceyMonkey75]

@@SarahBishop-e8b Another two month old bot account created to spread misinformation and atrocity propaganda on behalf of the zionist war machine. Nice.

[@AWSOM817]

Better be simpleton that knows truth thus abide by it then chosen ones that bent truth for its false righteousness thus became deviants.

[@annovel5127]

This interview was exceptional. Thank you.

[@FM-ln2sb]

I appreciated Coates honesty. Amazing that he calls out Kamala's violence and vileness, and Amy scoffed and avoided that conversation. As predictable, Trump was mentioned but not Kamala's current genocidal policies.

[@ronstephen-wy4ib]

Stop falling for the false two-party duopoly. Neither side will ever put the best interests of the people above the best interests of their donors.

[@FM-ln2sb]

@@ronstephen-wy4ib I agree. I would only hope Amy Goodman and Democracy Now would stop falling for duopoly lie.

[@jankypox]

If you want to know how one-sided the conversation of Israel/Palestine is in Western mainstream media, simply count. Count how many Jewish anchors, correspondents, or journalists (with either immediate family or first-hand experiences in Israel) get prime time slots to speak on this issue vs how many Palestinians or even Arabs do. Then count how many Jewish and/or Israel guests get interviewed or allowed to speak vs how many Palestinians or Arabs. It’s dozens and dozen and dozens vs possibly two, maybe three. The media isn’t even trying to accommodate voices from the other side, they are actively ignoring, silencing, and outright censoring those voices. On CNN alone. Five days of every week. In the eight hours between 9am and 5pm. FOUR of those hours every single day, a full half, is hosted by pro-Israel Jewish hosts (Dana Bash, Jake Tapper, and Wolf Blitzer) and laser focused on solely the Jewish perspective and the expense of not just Palestinian or Arab voices, but virtually any voices critical of Israel, be they black, white, brown, Christian, Muslim, or even Jewish! Coates absolutely nails this and skewers these stooges when he says that there is “…no shortage of the Israeli/Jewish perspective in our media…”

[@gracewyatt1210]

Excellent discussion. Thanks for doing this program ❤

[@TurdF3rguson]

Takes a big man to admit when they're wrong. Much respect.

[@fazinsanal1085]

Most respect to this young man. Bravo

[@katieydiddkatieydidd7269]

This is an amazing interview. I could listen to Ta-Nehisi Coates forever.

[@knightlife22]

What a treasure he is for America. As a black American I can tell you I hope this somehow points my fellow Americans to his work towards reparations so we can finally take that seriously. I will say when you read his books some of his points of view are purposefully harsh but it’s meant to emphasize the situation.

[@jaed2630]

Coates is a fool, and if you think that you DESRVE repreations and somehow YOUR people are going to "rise up", as if there aren't black success stories. Then there's no hope for you. Number 2. Are you going to demand reparations from black and arab people whose ancestors were slave owners, too? Did you know there are over a 1000 black slave owners in this country? Dod you skip over that WHOLE part of history on purpose? You can't be taken seriously.

[@geddyflea6645]

Reparations for what?

[@ronstephen-wy4ib]

Your ignorant comments.

[@Amatullah.574]

​@@geddyflea6645For the forced labor and injustices done to Black Americans for centuries, who are descendants of kidnapped Africans who were enslaved in the US. The same people who built America for free. White Americans gained wealth on our forefathers backs while we received nothing. Many whites today STILL benefit from the forced labor. Every other people in the US have received some form of reparations.

[@knightlife22]

@@geddyflea6645 Wilmington NC 1898 etc. Read the books. His books are great and still digestible for dishonest bigots.

[@richardalder2498]

One of the few Americans who understand the situation!

[@pete3953]

A terrible journalist who ether didn't bother to learn about and understand the history of the area or rejected it because it didn't conform with his point of view. Which is of course that Israel (like America) is a an evil oppressor, practicing apartheid. To make no mention of Hamas, Hezbollah, October 7, the intafadas, the many rejections by the Palestinians of 2 state solution and the public statements by the terrorists and Irans that nothing less than the destruction of Israel will satisfy them, makes his position on this subject worthless.and racist. Yet the progressive left journalists grovel at his feet.

[@johnwashington9292]

As a center-left anti-victimology black liberal, I never imagined that I would ever agree with Coats on anything, but I am completely in step with him on Palestine! I hope that the pro-Palestinian movement has caught that he has opened a new front of attack on the Zionists by showing the indecent innards of Israeli society.

[@kevinjackson6420]

What’s an anti-victimology black liberal? Please elaborate.

[@rockonmadonna]

Remember, Zionist extremism is not the same as Israel. 52% of Israeli citizens currently disapprove of Netanyahu, and 80% think he could have done more to prevent October 7th with the intelligence he and the army had. 47% support Netanyahu and his methods. It’s much like the Trump, anti-Trump dynamic in the USA. Not all Israelis are comfortable with the status quo or the way in which their leaders are carrying out their defense and this war.

[@miskakerdez3750]

According to Israeli journalist Gideon Levy, most Israelis are fine with the occupation of Palestinian land. They’d rather not think about it. They may have criticisms of the Likud party/ Netanyahu but they are fine with an ethnostate and the comforts it affords.

[@ronstephen-wy4ib]

Every thing they say is a lie. If you are Jewish wake up! It won't be long before the difference between a Zionist and a Jew becomes meaningless. If you let them make antisemitism = anti-Zionism then you will turn all the anti-Zionists into antisemites.

[@johnwashington9292]

@@kevinjackson6420 Sorry, I just saw this question, but glad you asked. An anti-victimology liberal is a center-left thinker who uses levelheadedness when looking at the plight of black Americans. This person is anti-CRT and awakened to the fact that it is not systemic racism that is our kryptonite but that the issues reside in pathologies in black culture that we refuse to see. Over 72 percent of our kids are born without fathers, leading to 67 percent being abandoned by dads to be raised solely by struggling females. Over generations of this, the extended family of grandparents, aunts, uncles, and so on is gone. This can spiral into life-destructive behaviors such as high crime, low academics, negative self-worth appraisal, and more of the same. Just some quick and verifiable stats to back up my point. Black makes up 6 percent of the population but commit over half of the murders in the US each year, with about 90 percent of the victims being other blacks. For armed robbers, it is 48 percent. And to add to this self-destruction, our 12th graders score embarrassingly lower on all subject categories than all the races. This seals these kids from many opportunities. Coats owes all of this to racism, but as someone who grew to manhood under Jim Crow and saw fathers in most homes and a more disciplined and harder-driving attitude, I am in serious disagreement with his philosophy. Sure, there is racism. I know what racism is, and he is speaking of bumps in the road when I had reinforced road barricades guarded by bigoted cops and police dogs. And it just flabbergasts me that this far out from slavery and Jim Crow, some of us think that more affirmative actions, financial aid, and reparations will clean this up!

[@patrickodonnell5808]

The truth is the light. Thank you @democracynow for providing objective journalism and giving voice to those who don’t have one. Coates sees the objective truth.

[@Kamdaman2024]

Well said Ta Nahesi

[@arby245]

They are quick to call him “far-left” and “woke”.. don’t fall for that. He is intelligent and human. He is not extreme, not right and not left. Don’t fall for their blackmailing, whether it’s the “antisemitism” card or “leftist” card.

[@DaveXYZ369]

As German, we know what Genocide is. So believe me when i say: It´s Genocide. Germany is listening very carefully, just in case.

[@OyVeey]

I mean, it seems like most Germans don't, they clearly think "Never Again" just means "don't do it to Jewish people again". I'm glad you're different, but man, Germany is one of the few countries where the public discourse about Israel is even more insane than the US.

[@jimgill37]

That is such an important point he makes about their line of questioning about long lost relatives. When we visited Tel Aviv years back, my wife was stopped for "questioning" at the international airport. Mind you, we are American citizens arriving from NYC area, we pay for all their stuff, and we flew over with her company, a MAJOR US Airline carrier. All of the employees (and me, the husband) walked off the plane in Tel Aviv together. The other pilots walked right past security, the flight attendants walked past, and they even told me to walk right past! But they stopped her, asking her father's full name. After she gave that, they asked for her grandfather's full name. After she told them her grandfather was dead before she was born and that she didn't know it, they took her aside to a waiting room area. They told me to keep going and to enjoy my trip! Are you effing serious, dude? My wife is basically in holding so I declined and said I would be staying wherever she's staying. I walk over to the "waiting area" of security wayyy over to the side of immigration in a separate room, and what do I see? SIX different Muslim groups - three of which were Americans. I started asking questions of two gentlemen who traveled together and their reply was startling for a first timer: "yep, this is normal. They stop me every time. I wait here for 1-2 hours, they ask stupid questions, and then they let me pass. The same thing will happen once I come back to head home to the US." WTF? This is the "only" democracy in the Middle East? If so, I think it's more appropriate to say there are ZERO democracies in the Middle East. If you are asking strangers of the country that financially supports your lifestyle their grandfather's name and religion, then you are - quite simply - being racist, bigoted, and employing all the signs of an apartheid state.

[@sakura613]

Was your wife Arab looking or something why they singled her out like that?

[@HTownCharlieBrown]

Alot of Americans that go there don't see alot of what's going on because they're kept away from it. Kept on the Chrístíąn/American friendly tour routes. They're even kept away from the radicalized lsřąęIis that h8 Chrístíąns. It's a huge cover up and scąm

[@zoridaali9983]

So true, same when I visited…$$$all about the Tourist 💰💰💰

[@evek2501]

It was the infamous CBS interview that made this book soar to the top spot on Amazon, so all in all, a good thing. Now hopefully, millions of people will be educated and learn about what is really happening.

[@zivkokezic9378]

Ta-Nehisi for President. This man is so courageous.

[@jeffseinfeld4864]

Thank you for Protesting against genocide and corporate warfare. God Bless You.

[@EmilioBello-q6k]

A lot of Civil Rights leaders spoke for Palestine

[@jackieburns5257]

Not in 2024

[@ronstephen-wy4ib]

Deaf, dumb and blinded by propaganda, eh!

[@Amatullah.574]

​@@jackieburns5257Then you don't know them

[@susanneryan5727]

Thank you

[@Fellowtellurian]

It has been simple this whole time. The “it’s complicated” excuse is used all the time. Healthcare, it’s complicated we can’t do single payer. School funding “it’s complicated, poor neighborhoods don’t deserve funding.”

[@LordWaterBottle]

"It's complicated" means "a billionaire is profiting"

[@Fellowtellurian]

@@LordWaterBottle pretty much, it’s far past time for a very very strong state that protects its people from the billionaire class. Redistribution of wealth increased value creation. Even economists know this.

[@MisterTea123]

Ta-Nehisi Coates, America's voice of conscience

[@DENGODFREY]

Mr. Coates is such a serious thinker. If he ever taught, I'd pay most any amount to learn more of his world views.

[@mdrahman-ju9qv]

Truth will always prevail and Palestine will be Free.

[@geddyflea6645]

Only if they accept Israel’ right to exist

[@Slolo-s4h]

So much respect and admiration to Ta-Nehisi. Proud of you bro

[@hawietufa8889]

This is what our children need come together 4 peace equality freedom for every human being on earth 🙏

[@MisterTea123]

Never come across him before (I'm from UK) but Coates is that rare breed, a thoroughly decent selfless human being

[@brunojvaldez7277]

I'm getting your book

[@krisdavid3217]

Mr. Coates I'm buying your book this weekend. GUARANTEE!!! ✌🏾

[@FreeHumanity-gj786]

FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

[@TheMomeni]

😂😂

[@Walter-x1j]

Get lost.

[@JackFieldBand]

The Palestinians sacrificed 41K for their murderous prisoners.

[@TheMomeni]

@@JackFieldBand It's their choice , they could act like a human being without violence and terrorism, but they chose violence and terrorism

[@Dovelunalove]

@@JackFieldBandyou have commented the same exact thing under every comment. it’s almost as if ur spreading propaganda for some kind of zio cult.

[@brookesanders1621]

Thank you for speaking up and taking action ❤️💚🖤🤍

[@Vidarl-_-l]

This is the way you make a change, taking the streets massively. Well done and huge solidarity with all of you.

[@abdulrahmanhija659]

God bless bro you are amazing for standing for humanity 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@rizwanhussain2288]

Thank You Coates Sir