Thursday, October 6, 2011

Malcolm X in Gaza

I didn't know he had been to Palestine, ma sha Allah.
"In early September Malcolm took a two-day trip to Gaza, meeting a number of local government officials and visiting several Palestinian refugee camps near the Israeli border. He prayed at a local masjid, accompanied by several religious leaders, before holding a press conference in Gaza's parliament building. The Nation had admired the state of Israel as a concrete expansion of Jewish Zionism; henceforth Malcolm would view Israel as a neocolonial proxy for U.S. imperialism.
-Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (2011) by Manning Marable, pg. 367.

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