Black Lives Matter, Israel & Intersectionality 

The BDS and The Palestinians’ Alliance with BLM

By ACD  Tuesday, August 18th, 2020 @ 3:03PM

Since the founding of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in 2013, the delegitimization (DLG) network against Israel and its activists have embarked on a propaganda campaign that draws parallels between police violence in the US against African Americans and violence against Palestinians by the Israel Police and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). This fictitious parallel is part of a strategic attempt by the delegitimization network to entrench itself and the BDS movement as a focal point of the progressive movement.

Intersectionality posits that no form of discrimination is distinct from another. This includes discrimination that emanates from capitalism, white supremacy, government, prison and justice systems, the police force, colonialism, gender hetero-normativity, and other institutionalized norms.

After the killing of George Floyd, DLG activists immediately began drawing comparisons with what they describe as systematic and deadly Israeli brutality against Palestinians. The comparisons were given further impetus in the wake of the May 30th killing of Iyad Halak, an autistic Palestinian from East Jerusalem, by Israeli police in Jerusalem’s Old City.

The image below, typifying the campaign, depicts a photoshopped image of George Floyd on the West Bank security barrier.

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Ahmed Eldin, Instagram, deleted post, published 06/02/2020

A doctored image shared across social media and news platforms as “fake news” about a nonexistent new mural on the West Bank Separation Barrier tying George Floyd’s murder to Palestinian causes.

As seen in the following screenshots, Intersectionality not only seeks to absorb all minority issues under the same umbrella, but it also seeks to depict the US and Israel as one and the same, going so far as even changing the colors of the American flag to match those of the Israeli flag.

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Translation: The lives of blacks are important. the lives of the Palestinians are important to George Floyd. Iyad Halak, no to the American Zionist racial strangulation. Stop that same shit #BLM #PalestinianLivesMatter 

German DLG website Das Palästina Portal published an article titled “Gaza is everywhere! What the current unrest and protest in the US has to do with Israel” which argues that police brutality can be attributed to an “ongoing Israelization of the world.” The following image was included in the article.

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  1. The whole intesectionality miasma will easily backfire on the frivolous mis-users of the idea. Effectively the revival of Antisemitism by radical and not so radical Moslems and black radicals taking a kick at “whitey” by echoing Antismitism as an excuse that is partial so avoids directly clashing with the entire white community creates a situation in which inter communal strife is acceptable. Once that takes off and the Jews decamp, the blacks will be open to a renewal of the Jim Crow years or worse with no objections because their radicals sanctioned getting at Jews and so any other group.