17.01.2015 - 16:19 [ Mondo Weiss ]

‘It’s the political problem Black bodies pose for the US state and Palestinian bodies pose for the Israeli state‘: NYC panel looks at militarized policing in the US and Israel

The New York chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace and the Weaving the Fabric of Diversity at the First Unitarian Congregational Society Brooklyn co-hosted a panel last night with Dr. Robyn Spencer, an assistant professor of history at Lehman College and curator of the Black on Palestine website, and Linda Sarsour, a Palestinian American activist and the director of the Arab American Association of New York, on the connections of militarized policing between the US and Israel. The panel was held one day after a press conference hosted by a coalition of over fifty groups, including JVP, in opposition to the New York City Council’s upcoming delegation to Israel and the US-Israel military/police relationship.