Coleman Hughes: The Struggle for Black Freedom Has Nothing to Do with Israel

Coleman Hughes: The Struggle for Black Freedom Has Nothing to Do with Israel

Demonstrators march at the “Palestine to Africa - Palestinian Liberation is Black Liberation” protest in New York on November 5, 2023. (Photo by Maggy Donaldson/AFP via Getty Images)As the Israel-Hamas war drags on in its second month and shows no sign of abating, many Westerners have drawn comparisons between the state of Israel and Jim Crow-era America or apartheid South Africa. In their telling, Israelis are the white people, Palestinians are…