Racial supremacy and the Zionist exception

From time to time, the Palestine Center distributes articles it believes will enhance understanding of the Palestinian political reality. The following article by David Lloyd was published by Mondoweiss on August 15, 2017.

“The contradiction between condemning US racism and support for the racist ideology of Zionism has become steadily more glaring. The ugly chants and intimidating violence of the fascist right have met with almost universal disgust, including naming the lethal ramming of non-violent protesters an act of terror. At the same time, Americans have had to confront the fact that white supremacy is an intrinsic if shameful element in their history and institutions whose consequences have yet to be overcome. The brief moment when the premature claim that the United States was ‘postracial’ has run its course. But the same awareness has yet to extend to the remarkably similar and equally consequential world-view of Zionism…”

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