When you look at the breadth of MLK’s works, it’s certainly true he had an incorrect understanding of Israel and the Zionist project. I’m not going to excuse that, even at the time there were notable figures such as Malcolm X, Einstein, Hannah Ardent, ect, that correctly identified early Israel as a fascist settler-colonial project. It’s an important blind spot of his at acknowledge and address.
Nevertheless, MLK’s thoughts on colonialism and segregation from South Africa and America, can correctly be applied to Israel, and make it obvious how critical International opposition such as Boycott Divestment and Sanctions are to collapse the fascist regime, as it was for Apartheid South Africa.
JVL is a terrible source
Jacobin has a much more in-depth article: What MLK Actually Thought About Israel and Palestine
When you look at the breadth of MLK’s works, it’s certainly true he had an incorrect understanding of Israel and the Zionist project. I’m not going to excuse that, even at the time there were notable figures such as Malcolm X, Einstein, Hannah Ardent, ect, that correctly identified early Israel as a fascist settler-colonial project. It’s an important blind spot of his at acknowledge and address.
Nevertheless, MLK’s thoughts on colonialism and segregation from South Africa and America, can correctly be applied to Israel, and make it obvious how critical International opposition such as Boycott Divestment and Sanctions are to collapse the fascist regime, as it was for Apartheid South Africa.