Kristian Davis Bailey of Black4Palestine has published a new article at Black Agenda Report highlighting the North America Nakba Tour and his own experience with the Tour and its speakers.

“Four months ago I sat in the apartment of a family of Palestinian refugees in Burj el Barajneh camp, just outside of Beirut. It was the final night of a trip to examine the potential for relationships and exchanges between Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and Black people in the US.

I sat with Umm Riyad, a woman in her eighties who survived the Nakba (the Zionist colonization and ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948), joined by three generations of her family. We had met a few days earlier on a guided tour of the camp, when she spoke of the dispossession and exile that Israel has forced her and her family to live through for the last 70 years.

I came back to offer gratitude for her family opening their home to us and to let them know that there is a growing movement of Black people in the US who support the Palestinian cause.

My translator was 23 year old Palestinian journalist Amena El Ashkar. Amena had spent three months in the US in 2016 touring the country with an 86-year old Nakba survivor to educate audiences about the conditions facing Palestinians living in exile in Lebanon. Amena had joined Black4Palestine later that year for our first network meeting in Washington, DC.”

Read the full article at Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/palestinian-women-us-connect-communities-struggle