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How Misinformation -- and Disinformation -- Allowed the Plight of Palestinians and Black Americans to be Framed as One and the Same
This mural was painted on the side of a building, not in Minneapolis, MN, but in Gaza City, Gaza , in the weeks after former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd in May, 2020. This mural was painted on a wall in the occupied West Bank -- Meanwhile, here on the home front... The histories behind these images are truly painful, and equally complex. Far too complex for the oversimplified discussions we tend to engage in about them. Yet, for reasons we will discuss, racial injustice here in the United States imposed upon and endured by Black Americans has been effectively tied in a knot with injustices endured by Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, collectively, the occupied Palestinian territories. Conflated might be a better word. How did innocent Palestinians come to see their struggle as so similar to the plight of the Black American, and perhaps more importantly, why have so many Black Americans, especially those under the age of 35, come to see the pligh
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