Marc Lamont Hill’s speech on Palestine (November 28th 2018) was delivered last week at the United Nations. A day later CNN fired him as a talking head. Temple University wants to fire him too, but Hill is a tenured professor.
The UN speech: Hill, after giving examples of how Israel, with US support, abuses human rights, called for solidarity with Palestinians:
Yes to BDS:
“Solidarity from the international community demands that we embrace boycotts, divestment, and sanctions [BDS] as a critical means by which to hold Israel accountable for its treatment of Palestinian people.”
The silence of the left:
“Solidarity demands that we no longer allow politicians or political parties to remain silent on the question of Palestine. We can no longer in particular allow the political left to remain radical or even progressive on every issue from the environment to war to the economy, to remain progressive on every issue except for Palestine.”
Palestinians, like Blacks, have a right to defend themselves and fight back:
“Contrary to Western mythology, Black resistance to American apartheid did not come purely through Gandhi and nonviolence. Rather, slave revolts and self-defence and tactics otherwise divergent from Dr. King or Mahatma Gandhi were equally important to preserving safety and attaining freedom. …
“If we are standing in solidarity with the Palestinian people, we must recognize the right of an occupied people to defend itself. We must prioritize peace. But we must not romanticize or fetishize it.
“We must advocate and promote nonviolence at every opportunity, but we cannot endorse a narrow politics of respectability that shames Palestinians for resisting, for refusing to do nothing in the face of state violence and ethnic cleansing.”
The NYPD and IDF, Blacks and Palestinians:
“We brought a delegation of black activists to Palestine, and we saw the connections between the police in New York City, who are being trained by Israeli soldiers, and the type of policing we were experiencing in New York City.”
Conclusion:
“we have an opportunity to not just offer solidarity in words but to commit to political action, grassroots action, local action, and international action that will give us what justice requires. And that is a free Palestine from the river to the sea.”
The ADL, which fights anti-Jewish prejudice, twisted all of that to mean:
“Those calling for ‘from the river to the sea’ are calling for an end to the State of Israel. … [Hill is promoting] divisive and destructive action against Israel.”
Hamas does use the phrase “from the river to the sea”, but it no longer calls for the destruction of Israel. And besides, Hill is not part of Hamas.
CNN fired Hill the next day. It is apparently a handmaiden of Zionist propaganda.
Temple University’s board chairman, Patrick O’Connor, a wannabe handmaiden:
“I’m not happy. The board’s not happy. The administration’s not happy. People wanted to fire him right away. We’re going to look at what remedies we have… Free speech is one thing. Hate speech is entirely different.”
– Abagond, 2018.
Sources: Google Images (picture), YouTube (the speech itself, 22 minutes), Jadaliyya (full text of speech) Philadelphia Inquirer (O’Connor quote), Jewish Journal (ADL quote).
See also:
- Palestine
- respectability politics
- propaganda model – why the US press cannot take an honest look at Israel, among other things
- CNN
- Notes towards a media guide to Gaza
- Rented Negroes – most of the Black people you see on US television
- people of colour with functioning brains:
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Maybe Marc Lamont Hill should have attended the FIDF Western Region Gala with Pharrell Williams, Ziggy Marley and others. Or maybe he could have joined Draymond Green on his trip to Israel and his photo opps with the IDF.
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“Hate speech is entirely different.” Maybe I missed something. I didn’t hear anything hateful in Mr. Hill’s ideology. Just an awareness of the suffering of a population at the hands of Israel. You would think Jewish culture would have learned something from their people being exterminated in the hands of the Nazis.
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Count me in with Marc Lamont Hill.
God bless him!
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@dorisjean23: The Israeli attempt at the slow-motion genocide of the Palestinians is proof positive that alone suffering does not necessarily ennoble a people.
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By law, there is no such thing as “hate speech”, only “free speech”.
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Sorry Dr. Hill, you are not white. Only so-called liberal white people are allowed to go before the U.N. and chastise the State of Israel without repercussions. It absolutely boggles my mind that such a high-minded Kneegrow such as yourself could be so secularly brilliant and at the same time, spiritually ignorant.
I have no doubt that even up to now there is a chorus of laughter emanating from certain circles and pointing their fingers at you.
Next time, wear a mask and accept your current fate as a courtesy and as your Kneegrow wake up call. As for now, get back on the plantation!
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” As for now, get back on the plantation!”
The H.N.I.C. has spoken, “massa” will be pleased.
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@ gro jo,
Proverbs 14:7 Stay away from a foolish man; you will gain no knowledge from his speech.
Proverbs 26:4 Do not answer a fool according to his folly; or you yourself will be like him.
Selah!
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Had I been aware of these proverbs I wouldn’t have commented.
A happy Selah! to you to my friend.
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What is this guy up to now?
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“jefe
What is this guy up to now?”
“DR. MARC LAMONT HILL
Dr. Marc Lamont Hill is one of the leading intellectual voices in the country.
He is currently the host of BET News and a political contributor for CNN. An award-winning journalist, Dr. Hill has received numerous prestigious awards from the National Association of Black Journalists, GLAAD, and the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Hill is the Steve Charles Professor of Media, Cities, and Solutions at Temple University. Prior to that, he held positions at Columbia University and Morehouse College.
Since his days as a youth in Philadelphia, Dr. Hill has been a social justice activist and organizer. He is a founding board member of My5th, a non-profit organization devoted to educating youth about their legal rights and responsibilities. He is also a board member and organizer of the Philadelphia Student Union. Dr. Hill also works closely with the ACLU Drug Reform Project, focusing on drug informant policy. Over the past few years, he has actively worked on campaigns to end the death penalty and to release numerous political prisoners.
Ebony Magazine has named him one of America’s 100 most influential Black leaders.
Dr. Hill is the author or co-author of four books: the award-winning Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity; The Classroom and the Cell: Conversations on Black life in America; the New York Times bestseller Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on The Vulnerable from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond; and Gentrifier. He has also published two edited books: Media, Learning, and Sites of Possibility; and Schooling Hip-Hop: New Directions in Hip-Hop Based Education.
Trained as an anthropologist of education, Dr. Hill holds a Ph.D. (with distinction) from the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the intersections between culture, politics, and education in the United States and the Middle East.”
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A better solution
– Arab Christians can stay and become Israeli citizens
– Muslims can be sent to neighbouring countries to prevent them from dragging Israel down civilisationally.
Islam is incompatible with Western Civilisation.
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