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“Israel was created by Western imperialism & is maintained by Western firepower.” - Huey P. Newton, pictured @ a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon 1980 #BPP #FreePalestine 
“We support the Palestinian’s just struggle for liberation 100%. We will go on doing this, & we would like for all of the progressive people of the world to join our ranks in order to make a world in which all people can live." - Huey P. Newton w/ Yasser Arafat #FreePalestine
Eldridge Cleaver & David Hilliard of the Black Panther Party holding a press conference w/ the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in Algiers, Algeria @ the Pan-African Cultural Festival, 1969
"I declare support for the Palestinian liberation struggle". - Muhammad Ali @ a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon in the 1970s #FreePalestine
Muhammad Ali @ a Palestinian protest march in Chicago 1988
“The ever-scheming European imperialists wisely placed Israel where she could geographically divide the Arab world, infiltrate & sow the seed of dissension among African leaders & also divide the Africans against the Asians.” - Malcolm X meeting w/ leaders of the PLO in 1964
“I think the reason why the so-called State of Israel gets support from the Western powers is precisely because the role Israel is now playing was planned by the imperialists.” - Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) 1968 Speech @ the Organization of Arab Students (O.A.S.) Convention
SNCC Newsletter June-July 1967 on Palestine
“While The Israelis are proclaiming their so called remarkable achievement & progress, the world must not forget their 25 yrs of massacres & terrible injustices done to the rightful owners — the Arabs of Palestine.”
1973 article from NOI’s Muhammad Speaks on Deir Yassin massacre
1973 article from NOI’s Muhammad Speaks on Deir Yassin massacre
“You may take the last strip of my land
feed my youth to prison cells
you may plunder my heritage
you may burn my books, my poems...
But I shall not compromise
& to the last pulse in my veins
I shall resist” - Samih al-Qasim, TBP accidentally published as George’s #FreePalestine
feed my youth to prison cells
you may plunder my heritage
you may burn my books, my poems...
But I shall not compromise
& to the last pulse in my veins
I shall resist” - Samih al-Qasim, TBP accidentally published as George’s #FreePalestine
“In 1973, when I attended the World Festival of Youth & Students in Berlin (in the DDR), I had the opportunity to meet Yasser Arafat, who always acknowledged the kinship of the Palestinian struggle & the Black freedom struggle in the United States...” - Angela Davis
Eldridge Cleaver & Yasser Arafat
“The United Stares is the greatest de-humanizer in the world, & Israel is nothing but a finger of the United States...We stand with the Third World. We don’t care what the State Department says...as long as we have legs they cannot stop us from going to Algeria...” - Kwame Ture
“The imperialists always make themselves look good, but it is only because they are competing against economically crippled newly independent countries whose economies are actually crippled by the Zionist-capitalist conspiracy.” - Malcolm X, Zionist Logic. Egyptian Gazette, 1964
“We are with the refugees, the martyrised refugees of Palestine, who have been tricked & driven from their own homeland by the manoeuvres of imperialism...we support wholeheartedly all that the sons of Palestine are doing to liberate their country...” - Amílcar Cabral
“Apartheid Israel can be defeated, just as apartheid in South Africa was defeated." - Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
“We...are in complete solidarity w/ our Palestinian brothers & sisters, who like us, are struggling for self-determination & an end to racist oppression”
NYT1970, the Committee of Black Americans for Truth about the Middle-East-signatories incl. Robert F. Williams & Lewis Michaux
NYT1970, the Committee of Black Americans for Truth about the Middle-East-signatories incl. Robert F. Williams & Lewis Michaux
“We express our firmest support for & solidarity with the struggles of the people of Palestine...” - Maurice Bishop @ the 34th UN General Assembly, NY. 10/10/1979 
“...the United States is the stronghold of Zionism & imperialism...In my name & the name of all Muslims in America, I declare support for the Palestinian struggle to liberate their homeland & oust the Zionist invaders.” - Muhammad Ali
“over half a century of Israeli violations of international law, by massive land theft, water theft & the imposition of a cruel military occupation by a settler, colonialist state which had no use for the Indigenous peoples of Palestine, & yet lusts for its lands” Mumia Abu-Jamal
