On October 14, the group Black Palestinian Solidarity published a video featuring prominent leaders in the African American and Palestinian communities drawing connections between violence experienced in both communities. The video was produced by New Century College Assistant Professor Noura Erakat and has received hundreds of thousands of views and broad media coverage.
Erakat explained that the violence experienced by both communities has brought these two groups together in this widely-accessible, creative short video titled, “When I see them, I see us.”
In an interview with Al-Jazeera America, Erakat said, "Here were two groups of people dealing with completely different historical trajectories, but both which resulted in a process of dehumanization that criminalized them and that subject their bodies as expendable," Erakat told Al Jazeera America. "Not only were their lives more vulnerable and disposable, but that even in their death, they were blamed for their own death."To date, the project has been covered in a variety of media outlets including the Washington Post, LA Times, Huffington Post and Al-Jazeera America, among others.
October 23, 2015
