Oakland City Council ignores Black residents, condemns Israel
Post-BLM Oakland is crying out for help - and nobody cares, part 2
Last summer, Africa-Israel Weekly published the article Post-BLM Oakland is crying out for help - and nobody cares. In it, we shared the open letter written by the Oakland chapter of the NAACP demanding that the City Council do something about record crime and violence, as well as the lack of available quality jobs. Over the subsequent months, community leaders like Seneca Scott — who was also a 2022 mayoral candidate — have been chronicling the city’s woes and the unwillingness of the City Council and the Alameda County District Attorney to do anything about them. IBSI Executive Director Joshua Washington dedicated several segments of IBSI’s weekly Forum on Israel, Africa, & Black America to the crisis in Oakland.
While Oakland’s City Council has been unresponsive to the pleas of its residents, it did find time to hold public hearings and draft a resolution calling for Israel to ceasefire as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) seek to eliminate the Hamas terrorists in Gaza. In a scene reminiscent of college campus BDS hearings, Oakland residents (mostly non-Black) lined up at the podium to repeat Hamas-style talking points and condemn Israel. Yes. Rather than tend to the emergency situation in Oakland, the city’s leaders are errantly commenting on a conflict some 8,000 miles away.
Since the 1960s, this is how the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has negatively impacted the Black American community. Oakland is an icon of Black America, birthplace of the Black Panther Party and the Black Power Political Party, and the cradle of West Coast Black gospel music. As the PLO’s Yasser Arafat began in the late 1960s, anti-Israel forces have exploited Black leaders and communities like Oakland to give their genocidal movement an air of legitimacy. And, like the terrorist leaders of the Palestinians, unscrupulous city leaders allow their authority to be used to attack the Jewish State rather than care for their own people. As IBSI has shared over the years, no entity has been more effective at this anti-Israel, antisemitic Blaxploitation than Black Lives Matter. BLM is the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) in blackface.
In my book, Zionism & the Black Church, I explain the Soviet/KGB origins of the PLO.
Arguably, the most effective form of Soviet anti-Zionist deception and propaganda targeting the Black community was embodied by the Egyptian-born, self-proclaimed leader of the Arab Palestinian people. His name was Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini, better known as Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
Again, former KGB spy chief, Lt. General Pacepa:
“The KGB had a penchant for ‘liberation’ movements. The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), the National Liberation Army of Columbia (FARC), and the National Liberation Army of Bolivia were just a few of the liberation movements born at the KGB.”
As we’ve also shared in the past, Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver learned the truth of the PLO’s Communist, anti-Israel, anti-American, anti-Black agenda the hard way.
Oakland’s City Council’s willingness to allow the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to hijack their agenda is the continuation of a long, very sad story of Blaxploitation. No one benefits from misguided calls for a ceasefire as Hamas still holds nearly 200 hostages in Gaza and continues firing rockets at Israeli civilians. Meanwhile, innocent people in Oakland are dying in the streets. As one person said on social media, Oakland’s leaders need to declare their own ceasefire.
I live in Berkeley, am 75 and use doordash instacart uber, lyft etc almost daily.
I have asked all “Black” drivers over the past month the following questions:
Are you aware of the massive killing of blacks by muslims in africa? Answer No.
Are you aware of the massive killing of christians by muslims in africa? Answer no.
Are you aware that over 10 million blacks have been killed by muslims slave traders? Answer No
Are you aware that muslim slave trading is still going on today? Answer No, except one person in his early 60’s was familiar with that.
How can BLM support muslims killing jews in Israel? Answer, i do not know.
Are you aware that 30 muslim countries have been at war with Israel since 1948? Answer No.
Thank you. Great information.