The Ferguson Intifada, or Why African-Americans are America’s Palestinians

..., separating Arab Palestinians from Israeli Jews. I will not claim here that slave-descent African Americans in America are the equivalent of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. But there are important similarities between the recent violence in Ferguson and current violence in Jerusalem, between historical unrest in America among blacks and historical unrest among Palestinians under Israeli control, that are worth exploring. Black in America: A Brief History Unless you are a more recent voluntary immigrant from Africa or ...