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UC Berkeley Professor compares Israelis to racists

By Brianna Buczkowski | October 16, 2015

UC Berkely’s Center for Race & Gender and Feldman’s book.

What does the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and American racism have in common?  More than you would think, according to an assistant professor of ethnic studies at UC Berkely, Kevin Feldman.

At a recent lecture sponsored by by the University’s Center for Race & Gender (CRG), Feldman spoke about his book, A Shadow Over Palestine: The Imperial Life of Race in America, explaining the connections he draws between post-civil rights movement U.S. and “Israel’s post-1976 occupation of Palestinian lands.”

“This coupling . . . drew on material linkages to Israel as a military, economic, and geopolitical partner for the U.S. state to Zionism as a symbolic storehouse for the hegemonic articulation of liberal freedom and colonial violence” Feldman said.

That’s academia jargon for “Israel is like the U.S. and Zionism, their colonial-like need to displace all Arabs is like American “violence” in race relations.

Feldman accused both nations, Palestine and Israel, of being warmongers and inviting unnecessary violence and conflict in their region.  Comparing Israel and the U.S., he says that both have been in a state of “seemingly permanent war making structure,” completely ignoring the history of Arab aggression and unrelenting violence.

In this same lecture, Feldman, a supporter of the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel” labeled both the U.S. and Israel’s conflicts “racialized practices of threat production adhering in the enduring violence of white supremacy and settler sovereignty.”

Completely ignoring the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or mentioning any wrong-doings of the Arabs, Feldman stuck to his theme of racial motivations, going so far as to bring in the Nazi regime, just to make his side clear:

“American ghettos are like . . . Warsaws, Palestinian refugee camps, or like prison, or like occupied territory. Israeli sovereigns are like Western Europeans or American pioneers, while Palestinians are like African-Americans. . . . Jews are like white people or African-Americans. African-Americans are like Jews.”

In case you missed that, the assistant professor of ethnic studies says that Palestinians are like African-Americans OR they can be like Jews, depending on which case it is that they are being abused.

His lecture is one that was welcomed by UC Berkely’s Center for Race and Gender and perfectly in line with their history of left-leaning, anti-War on Terror research such as the notorious Islamophobia Research & Documentation Project.

But anywhere else where objectivity and two-sided arguments are welcome, Feldman’s notable absence of any mention of the historical reality,  like repeated war and aggression of Arab states on Israel or their neglect to give Palestinians citizenship.

It is comforting to know the education of the next generation of leaders is being given well-rounded representation of global issues by professors like Feldman on their campuses.

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