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Black Lives Matter and Palestine: A historic alliance

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A new generation of civil rights uprising has now picked up where the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s left off.

A group of people walk behind a long banner that reads 'Jews Support Black Lives Matter #Jews4BlackLives'.

“Progressive forces now gathered around this noble movement for the dignity of black lives and beyond are in fact late in joining the rest of the civilised world denouncing the systemic violence at the core of the Israeli settler colony.”

Read the full article published by Al Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/09/black-lives-matter-palestine-historic-alliance-160906074912307.html


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This research was primarily supported under the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Projects funding scheme.

Partial funding was received from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s Partnership Development Grants scheme.

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