Khury Petersen-Smith is the Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies.
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to a joint session of Congress in 2015, the Congressional Black Caucus skipped the speech. Netanyahu had arrived—with the Republicans’ blessing—to rebuke then-President Barack Obama for pursuing an agreement with Iran over the country’s nuclear program. In defense of Obama, the CBC refused to attend the speech.
Palestinian human rights groups like Al Haq, international organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, and Israeli groups like B’Tselem have all carried out their own investigations and concluded that Israel is committing the international crime of apartheid.Black folks in the United States have our own history of appealing to the international community in the face of suffering. In 1951, Black activists presented a case to the U.N.
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