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In recent years, the Palestine movement in the U.S. has demonstrated increasing concern with joint struggle, a politics that seeks to highlight the interconnected nature of oppression and the subsequent need for cross-movement, joint action. This concern represents a shift from the movement’s primary focus in the past, which was centered on exposing oppression in Israel/ Palestine and addressing ... read moreAmerican complicity in the Israeli occupation. Given the large concentration of White and White-passing people within the movement, I argue this shift is particularly important in that it forces activists to address the many ways they are implicated in oppression far closer to home. I also argue that in the pursuit of joint struggle, the links between the U.S. carceral-security state and the Israeli occupation——which I identify in terms of goals/ impact (i.e. the upholding of White supremacy ) and profit—are especially important to highlight.read less
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