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Category: Coates

December 5, 2024January 6, 2025

To my Jewish friends

Last week I wrote admiringly about Ta Hanesi Coates’ new book, The Message. I chronicled his comparisons of Israeli’s state treatment of Arabs to the historical system of chattel slavery in America, and to European dispossession of Indigenous Americans in settler colonialism.Read Rich’s Post →

by Rich WandschneiderCoates, Gaza, IsraelLeave a comment
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