TA-NEHISI COATES RECALLS ‘APARTHEID’ IN OCCUPIED TERRITORIES
Author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates says the oppression and segregation that is currently inflicted on Palestinians smacks of the subjugation that Africans in America went through.
During the recent Palestinian Festival of Literature in New York, he spoke of his experience of the occupied territories, which he visited to better understand the plight of the people there.
In this video, Coates recalls the oppression that struck him forcefully while on a walk with his Palestinian friend. He witnessed clear examples of segregation - including roads reserved for Israelis.
It was an uncomfortable reminder of the days of apartheid in South Africa and slavery in America.
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In a video from Workers for Palestine on its Instagram account, a woman’s voice can be heard over a loudspeaker saying “we invite you to stop shopping while the bombs are dropping” and the deaths in Gaza were “funded by your tax money”.
More than 20,600 people have been killed in Gaza since October 7.
The announcement then claimed that buying products from brands such as “L’Oreal, Channel and Dior” helps what the organisers called Israel’s “genocide on the Palestinians” in Gaza.
Leaflets were distributed and strewn across the floor of the Amsterdam department store with shoppers told: “Christmas is cancelled, drop your shopping bags and boycott the brands.”