When Martin Luther King criticized US involvement in Vietnam in 1967, the @nytimes condemned him in an editorial, headlined "Dr. King's Error." Today's racial justice activists call to end US taxpayer funding of apartheid in Israel-Palestine, while US liberals condemn them. 1/3
Martin Luther King was "clear that the fight for racial justice at home was indivisible from the struggle for human rights abroad," writes @JeanneTheoharis. US liberals cannot credibly call for racial equality at home while funding and defending apartheid in Israel-Palestine. 2/3
For MLK & Rosa Parks, "the fight for racial justice at home was indivisible from the struggle for human rights abroad." Picketing the embassy of apartheid South Africa, Rosa Parks said, “I am concerned about any discrimination or denial of any people regardless of their race.”3/3
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