Projecting American Ideas About Race on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict with Liel Leibovitz

Middle East Forum Radio

American politicians and elites have increasingly superimposed an American racial ideology onto the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. In this view, Israeli Jews are seen as “privileged” and “white,” making them an enemy of the “intersectional” coalition of the oppressed, including the American black community and Palestinians. Where did this idea come? How prevalent is it in universities and Democratic politics? What are its consequences? How can it be countered?