As the war on Gaza enters its second year and Israel expands its attacks on Lebanon, we continue our conversation with the acclaimed writer Ta-Nehisi Coates.
His new book, The Message, is based in part on his visit last year to Israel and the occupied West Bank, where he says he saw a system of segregation and oppression reminiscent of Jim Crow in the United States. “It was revelatory,” says Coates.
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“I visited Israel, talked to a few people, so now I’m an expert on the longstanding and complex conflict so I’m going to write a completely one-sided diatribe against Israel.”
Did I capture it?
Did it take an expert to observe racial slavery when it happened in the US? What a weird point.