Angela Davis On Palestine Support

Black radical scholar and activist Angela Davis is a staunch supporter of the Palestinian cause. In this clip, she talks about how Palestinians also came out supporting the BLM movement in the wake of the Ferguson unrest and about why it’s important to reciprocate the solidarity and support.

At the time of this interview in 2019, she had been given an award by Alabama’s Birmingham Civil Rights Institute - only for it to rescind it over her support for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Movement, which works to end Israeli oppression of Palestinians. (The Institute later apologised and reinstated the honour.)

Davis draws a parallel between BDS and the Anti-Apartheid Movement launched in 1959, which saw people and institutions worldwide turn their backs on South African goods in protest against the country’s racist policies at the time.

As blues legend Solomon Burke sang, “None of us are free, [if] one of us are chained.”

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