Speaker 1: In the meantime, let's discuss our Way Black History Fact.
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Speaker 1: Black History Fact. But it's also going to be a
Speaker 1: call to action become a better ally. Right, We're going
Speaker 1: to ask you to read. We're going to discuss really
Speaker 1: the history, as I mentioned, between Black people and Palestinian people.
Speaker 1: It's a much deeper history than I knew about and
Speaker 1: that many people know about. And so we're going to
Speaker 1: share with you a book. But I'm going to tell
Speaker 1: you about the book before I ask you to go
Speaker 1: read it. So this comes from Stanford University Press. The
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty seven Arab is Israeli War rocketed the question
Speaker 1: of Israel and Palestine onto the front pages of American newspapers.
Speaker 1: Power activists saw Palestinians as a kindred people of color
Speaker 1: waging the same struggle for freedom and justice as themselves. Soon,
Speaker 1: concerns over the Arab Israeli conflicts spread across mainstream black
Speaker 1: politics and into the heart of the civil rights movement itself.
Speaker 1: Black Power and Palestine uncovers why so many African Americans,
Speaker 1: notably Martin Luther King, Junior, Malcolm X, and Muhammad Ali,
Speaker 1: among others, came to support the Palestinians or felt the
Speaker 1: need to respond to those who did again. This is
Speaker 1: from nineteen sixty seven, Okay Right. Americans first heard pro
Speaker 1: Palestinian sentiments in public through the Black Freedom struggle of
Speaker 1: the nineteen sixties and nineteen seventies. Robert R. Fischbach uncovers
Speaker 1: the hidden history of the Arab Israeli conflicts role in
Speaker 1: African American activism, and the ways that distant struggle shaped
Speaker 1: the domestic fight for racial equality. Black powers, transnational connections
Speaker 1: between African Americans and Palestinians deeply affected by US black politics,
Speaker 1: animating Black visions of idea to be well into the
Speaker 1: late nineteen seventies. Black Power and Palestine allows those Black
Speaker 1: voices to be heard again today and chronicling this story Fishbox,
Speaker 1: I'm Sorry. Fishbox reveals much about how American peoples of
Speaker 1: color create political strategies, a sense of self, and a
Speaker 1: place within the US and global communities. The shadow cast
Speaker 1: by events of the nineteen sixties and nineteen seventies continues
Speaker 1: to affect the United States in deep structural ways. This
Speaker 1: is the first book to explore how the conflict in
Speaker 1: the Middle East shaped the American civil rights movement. And
Speaker 1: just so you know, because we believe in credible sources,
Speaker 1: we believe in journalistic integrity. So forth, I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you a little bit about the author Fishbock. He is
Speaker 1: a professor of history at Randolph Macon College. He is
Speaker 1: the author of four previous books. He was awarded grants
Speaker 1: by the Macauthur Foundation in the United States Institute of Peace.
Speaker 1: He has presented at numerous academic and diplomatic settings in
Speaker 1: sixteen countries on for a continent. So one more times
Speaker 1: from Stanford University Press the nineteen sixty seven Arab Israeli
Speaker 1: War and the book is Black Power and Palestine. So
Speaker 1: I want to make sure we say the author's name right,
Speaker 1: that's Michael R. Fishbok. We call him Robert earlier that
Speaker 1: I have reading, Okay, sorry about that. So knowing that
Speaker 1: a lot of what it is that we're talking about
Speaker 1: today in today's conversation, and that there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people who in recent years have taken to activism, particularly
Speaker 1: through twenty twenty and the Black Lives Matter activism. You
Speaker 1: would imagine seeing the type of support that we're starting
Speaker 1: to see now that the information is fully diffusing through
Speaker 1: the communities, and my hope is that we will be
Speaker 1: able to support and ultimately a free Palestine.