The Washington Times
May 29, 2021
The Black Lives Matter movement’s embrace of the Palestinian cause substitutes racial identity for religious autonomy in the Mideast conflict, casting Israel as the aggressor even as antisemitic attacks in the U.S. are on the rise, foreign policy analysts say.
With its popularity among progressives and Democrats intact, BLM threatens to add tinder to the Israeli-Palestinian conflagration by inviting comparisons to the antebellum South, the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and ’70s and the white-minority oppression of South Africa, analysts say.
“They have equated Israel with White supremacists and Palestinians with Blacks. Now, the rhetoric of progressives has become seeing Israel and Gaza through the lens of race and Black Lives Matter,” said Noah Pollack, executive director of the Democratic Alliance Initiative, an analysis group critical of the foreign policy goals and outcomes of the Obama administration.