Slave Owners Fighting the 'Occupation'

Another 'Free Palestine' activist discovers the Arab Enslavement of Africans

Anti-Israel activist Eman Mabrouk shares a photo of Ethiopian women in an airport being transported as slaves on a flight to Lebanon, source: IG screenshot

Eman Mabrouk is a pro-Palestine, very anti-Israel activist and social media personality who may be of both Arab and Black American descent. With a glance at her Instagram page, you’ll be regularly greeted with “Good morning, and f*ck Israel.” However, if you watch her three-part series of videos beginning October 1, 2025, you’ll see Eman highlighting a very different message: Arabs own and abuse black African slaves and think absolutely nothing of it.

With a “Grab your coffee, it’s story time” introduction, this is how video No. 1 begins:

I land in Amman (Jordan - en route to Lebanon) and I have to go to gate 126. So, I walk over to 126 and I see…a group of Black…African women huddled up…by themselves. Everybody is…clinging to each other, and I’m..watching this sh*t like, “Somethin’s off. What the f*ck goin on?!”

A woman comes up to me and she’s like, “Oh my God! Your Eman!’”

“Yeah. What’s up, sis?”

“I love your videos!…”

“What’s goin’ on over here?” (Motions toward the African women.)

“Oh, they’re slaves.”

“Excuse me?”

“They’re gonna be slaves.”

“F*ck you mean?! F*ck you mean?!”

Over her three IG videos, Eman gives real-time, raw, unfiltered reactions to a world she never knew existed, not just the Arab enslavement of black Africans, but Arab hatred, contempt, and dehumanization of black Africans. For Eman, the worst part seemed to be that no one thought anything of it. The African (Ethiopian) women being shipped to Lebanon were nothing more than cargo. They were less than animals.

As Eman would later describe it

Everyone around me knows what’s goin’ on and they’re complying, and I’m like, “I really just walked into Jim Crow Arab edition. How are we fighting an occupation and simultaneously, y’all got this sh*t under your nose?” I cried for like 3 - 4…hours. And every time I tried to do anything they put the magnifying glass on me like, ‘Don’t you dare!’”

Eman further explained that, in attempting to appeal to the humanity of her colleagues, they were dismissive and implied that the Africans weren’t treated badly in Lebanon. She counters with:

Then you do your homework. One in four Ethiopian women are found dead in the hands of (Lebanese) due to a) suicide or b) trying to escape.

Eman is correct, but it’s much worse than she may know, as this type of racist abuse and mistreatment of Africans happens in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Yemen, Sudan, Gaza (aka Palestine)…all over the Arab and Islamic world. What’s more, this barbaric treatment of Africans at the hands of Arabs goes back some 1,400 years to the time of Muhammad. It is ingrained within Arab Islamic society. Beginning in 1969, this information, along with the truth of Israel and the Jewish people, led Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver to become a very loud and proud Zionist.

Said Eman about the Free Palestine movement:

The fact that we’re incapable of acknowledging that more than one terrible thing is going on at the same f*cking time is why there’s a generous amount of people that are not listening (to us). You can run your mouth all day about us being interconnected, but if you don’t acknowledge in its entirety the pain that you’re inflicting, and the hell…that (Africans) have been going through ten times longer than us — how f*cking dare you?!

Eman continued to incorrectly maintain that Israel was still worse than the Arab slave system of Africans she had just glimpsed. Not only are black Africans not enslaved in Israel, but black Africans — Jewish and non-Jewish — are free citizens of Israel. The Ethiopian Israeli community alone numbers nearly 200,000, and represents military officers, parliament members, doctors, lawyers, professors, rabbis, pastors, business owners, and more. The same holds for Israel’s Arab citizens, Muslim and Christian. Justice Khaled Kabub is an Arab Muslim who serves on Israel’s Supreme Court. In the area of justice, equal rights, and true Black Liberation, there is no comparison between Israel and the Arab or Islamic world.

Eman was visibly shaken by the revelation that, within Arab society, including the Free Palestine camp, Black lives do not matter; they are property. She chided the broader Arab community, saying:

As much as I want to make this a Black and White issue, this really boils down to dark skinned Black women and how casual (Arabs)…think of them…You (Arabs) want to be a master so f*cking bad? Oh, you have the money so you can. And you wonder why there’s an even bigger foot on our necks.

Eman then describes her conversation with an African woman who is a former slave.

She’s from Sierra Leone and I asked her about this. She said, “We came over ‘cause they said they’d give us work. They would pay us $400-$500 a month. And then when I came, my madam took my passport, she won’t give it back.”

“What’d you do?” Eman asked.

“I ran away. I don’t want to work for her. I’m my own woman.”

After sharing that story and with her camera still recording for another 8 seconds, Eman simply stared in disbelief. It’s as if the dehumanizing treatment juxtaposed to the regal, warrior-like response of that woman from Sierra Leone was too much to bear. It was clear that Eman was about to cry — again. Crying is an appropriate response. Doing something about it should be the next response. For those who want to be a part of the latter group, I invite you to visit iAbolish.org and the African Jewish Alliance to get started.

Also, please check out the video series We Are Not the Same: How Free Palestine Exploited the Black Community. A video version of this article is available here.