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

... 1930s, the Palestinian Arabs were a mess when the British, exhausted emotionally and materially from WWII and facing Jewish terrorism in Palestine, announced their decision to leave and transfer responsibility to the fledgling United Nations. In the ... ... jobs, facing all sorts of discrimination (including housing), brutality from security forces, neglect in resources, and general racism in ways a black American would find very familiar or at least somewhat similar. The structures oppressing Palestinians ...