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Black Complicity in Genocide, War Crimes, Crimes of Apartheid, and Crimes against Humanity in Palestine By Bob Brown
By Bob Brown, Director of Pan-African Roots and Organizer
Black Complicity in Genocide, War Crimes, Crimes of Apartheid, and Crimes against Humanity in Palestine
By Bob Brown, Director of Pan-African Roots and Organizer
Pan-African Roots Blog 7 August 2024 EXPOSED
All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) On October 19 and 25, 2023 the Center for Constitutional Rights sent letters to President Joseph H. Biden, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Congressman Gregory Meeks, and others, exposing and holding them accountable for “US Complicity in Israel’s Unfolding Genocide Against the Palestinian People.” On 3 November 2023, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the National Lawyers Guild, and Palestine Legal sent a “Notice of Potential Legal Liability For Aiding, Abetting, Inciting, Or Conspiring to Commit Genocide through Congressional Ats, and Demand” to all 535 Congressional Representatives. Kamala Harris, then President of the US Senate, and all other Congressional Representatives of African Descent, were included in this Notice. Harris is the presumptive Democratic Party Candidate for President. The letter warned the Representatives to take notice that if they vote in favor of an emergency military funding package for Israel, they “risk facing criminal and civil liability for aiding and abetting genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity under international law and may face investigation and prosecution at the International Criminal Court, and in third-states under the principal of universal jurisdiction.” They were notified that “the evidence of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and crimes of aggression committed by Israel with the material support the United States is overwhelming.” It asked them “to take notice with the gravity with which it is intended.” It demanded that they “refrain from aiding and abetting Israeli war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity, by voting against the proposed package, and by refraining from any encouragement or support for the commission of Israeli crimes against Palestinians.” To avoid accountability, the Biden Administration bypassed Congress in December 2023, and approved two emergency appropriations and related arms transfers. Like President Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1968, Biden was forced to not run for re-election. He endorsed Kamala Harris, to exploit the African community, as he did in the 2020 elections when he selected her as his Vice-Presidential running mate. The Democratic Party establishment is using her as a bait & switch candidate, to continue their crime of complicity in support of Israel, while minimizing the Democratic Party’s potential losses among African youth & women voters in the November 2024 election. This is a racist and sexist attempt to misuse and abuse African and women voters. It is a betrayal of everything we have fought and died for. It makes us complicit in the mass murder of Palestinian women and children. Since October 7, 2023, at least 39,480+ Palestinians have been killed by Israel, more than 60% of whom are women and children, 6,000 to 20,000 are missing, 91,128 have been wounded, 9,312+ have been detained, and 1,900,000 have been displaced in Gaza; 594 have been killed in the West Bank, 5,400+ have been wounded, and 7,350 detained; 1,609 were killed and 200+ have been captured inside the pre-1967 borders of Israel; 506 were killed and 100,000 displaced in Lebanon; and 256 were killed in Syria. The evidence of Black complicity in these ongoing crimes has been documented and is overwhelming. We publish it. Thought and Action On 14 August 2024, we will launch a Special Edition of Pan-African Roots, an online newspaper. It continues and expands the tradition of the Fact Sheet on The Palestine Problem: Test Your Knowledge which was published in the June/July 1967 issue of the SNCC Newsletter. Our Special Edition will be titled EXPOSED: Black Complicity in Genocide, War Crimes, Crimes of Apartheid, and Crimes against Humanity in Palestine. It will document the crimes committed by Ralph Bunche, who was known as the “George Washington of Israel;” A. Philip Randolph, Bayard Rustin, and other members of BASIC, the Black Americans to Support Israel Committee. It will document the crimes of genocidal complicity committed by Barrack Obama, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and others. It will expose the crimes of complicity committed by Representatives and Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Ritchie Torres (D-NY), Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Raphael Warnock (D-GA), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Glenn Ivey (D-MD), Tim Scott (R-SC), Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Valerie Foushee (D-NC), Colin Allred (D-TX), Alcee Hastings (D-FL), Lucy McBath (D-GA), Artur Davis (R-AL), Marilyn Strickland (D-WA), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Mondaire Jones (D-NY), Kamala Harris (D-CA), James E Clyburn (D-SC), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Steven Horsford (D-NV), Kendrick B Meek (D-FL), Kweisi Mfume (D-MD), Carol Moseley-Braun (D-IL), Wesley Hunt (R-TX), Emilia Sykes (D-OH), Elijah E Cummings (D-MD), Allen West (R-FL), Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL), Joseph Neguse (D-CO), Harold E Ford Jr. (D-TN), John Lewis (D-GA), Hank Brown (R-CO), David Scott (D-GA), Robin Kelly (D-IL), Hank Johnson (D-GA), Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL), Mel Reynolds (D-IL), Terri Sewell (D-AL), Karen Bass (D-CA), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Marcia Fudge (D-OH), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Byron Donalds (R-FL), Charles B Rangel (D-NY), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Mia Love (R-UT), Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Jahana Hayes (D-CT), Lauren A Underwood (D-IL), Summer Lee (D-PA), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Albert R Wynn (D-MD), Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), Marc Veasey (D-TX), Bill Owens (D-NY), Danny K Davis (D-IL), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Will Hurd (R-TX), Burgess Owens (R-UT), Keith Ellison (D-MN), Gabe Amo (D-RI), Donald M Payne (D-NJ), Edolphus Towns (D-NY), Frederica Wilson (D-FL), Alan Wheat (D-MO), Sydney Kamlager (D-CA), Major R Owens (D-NY), Cedric Richmond (D-LA), Andre Carson (D-IN), Gary A Franks (R-CT), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX), John Conyers Jr. (D-MI), JC Watts Jr. (R-OK), Alma Adams (D-NC), Corrine Brown (D-FL), William L Clay Jr. (D-MO), G K Butterfield (D-NC), Al Green (D-TX), Jonathan Jackson (D-IL), Carrie Meek (D-FL), Mike Espy (D-MS), William J. Jefferson (D-LA), Bobby Rush (D-IL), Donald M Payne Jr. (D-NJ), Louis Stokes (D-OH), William H Gray III (D-PA), Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (D-MI), Julian C Dixon (D-CA), Maxwell Frost (D-FL), William L Clay (D-MO), Melvin L Watt (D-NC), Chaka Fattah (D-PA), Bobby Scott (D-VA), Juanita Millender-McDonald (D-CA), Floyd H Flake (D-NY), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Maxine Waters (D-CA), Bennie G Thompson (D-MS), Frank W Balance Jr. (D-NC), LF Payne Jr. (D-VA), Eva M Clayton (D-NC), Lucien E Blackwell (D-PA), Barbara-Rose Collins (D-MI), Cynthia McKinney (D-GA), Harold E Ford (D-TN), and Cardiss Collins (D-IL), and other members of the pro-Israel sector of the elected neo-colonial class. In his 1964 Ballot or the Bullet speech, Malcolm X spoke about taking the African situation in the United States before the World Court. He played a critical role in introducing Palestine and Gaza to the African community in the United States. Six decades later, Israeli crimes against Palestine, and the complicity of the United States, are before the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice, and the World. South Africa, and other progressive, radical, and revolutionary forces in the 6 Regions of Africa and the African Diaspora, and the World are playing critical roles. We want to help! Black complicity in these crimes must be exposed, and mis-leadership must be held accountable. See APPEAL: BLACK AMERICANS AGAINST UNITED STATES SUPPORT OF THE ZIONIST GOVERNMENT OF ISRAEL, Committee of Black Americans for Truth about the Middle-East, 1970. See also Kwame Ture on Zionism and Imperialism.
