Chris Smalls Speaks Out After His Journey to Gaza

Chris Smalls Speaks Out After His Journey to Gaza

Ella Fanger In an interview, the union organizer talks about joining the Freedom Flotilla, confronting Israeli forces, and solidarity between Palestine and the US labor movement. The post Chris Smalls Speaks Out After His Journey to Gaza appeared first on The Nation.

Solidarity with Chris Smalls! Down with Zionism! - Revolutionary Communists of America

On 26 July, American trade unionist Chris Smalls was illegally detained and beaten by the Israeli state. His crime? Participating in one of the Freedom Flotilla expeditions that have been attempting to break the aid blockade on Gaza and end this monstrous man-made famine. The Zionist thugs not only detained all the volunteers who were peacefully attempting to deliver aid, but also targeted Smalls as a black man: “They attacked me out of the 21 v…