Z*ONISM VS. JUDAISM: KWAME TURE'S MASTERCLASS

It is not uncommon for our audience to wonder why African Stream has advocated for Palestinians. As we honour the life of our great Pan-African ancestor, Kwame Ture, who was born on this day, 29 June 1941, we share this powerful 1995 clip where he speaks about how the Zionist ideology uses religion to further its imperial aims. 

Ture (1941-98), relayed that atheist Europeans conceived of the imperialist ideology of Z*onism. The last 20 months of Israel's onslaught on Palestinians have shown the world how violent Israel’s founding ideology is.

Just like Ture predicted in this clip, the world, particularly people in the US, are understanding that the their government has been supporting and funding a colonial project with their tax dollars for over seven decades. 

To him, any African who aided and abetted Zionism worked against the interests of Africa. Our forefathers understood that the oppression of all peoples across the world is interconnected and ultimately rooted in the same capitalist expansion. 

During Ture's time as the Honorary Prime Minister of the Black Panther Party, the FBI secretly identified him as the man who would succeed Malcolm X (1925-65) and began a targeted counter-intelligence campaign. Ture moved to Africa, where he lived in Ghana and then Guinea between 1968 and 1969. It was there that he changed his name from Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael to Kwame Ture in honour of Ghana’s first leader, Kwame Nkrumah (1909-72), and Guinea’s first president, Ahmed Sékou Touré (1922-84). He later founded the US chapter of the All-African People's Revolutionary Party. 

Happy birthday to one of the most influential figures of the 20th century!