BLM’s Misguided Sympathy for Hamas: Pastor Dumisani Washington
American Thought Leaders
The Epoch Times
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🗓️ 2 December 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
"They have these torture facilities, sometimes right next to school. The kids can hear the people being tortured in Gaza. These kinds of guys are screaming out because Hamas is torturing them. Where's BLM? Where are they when these types of human rights abuses happen on a daily basis?"
In this episode, I sit down with Pastor Dumisani Washington, founder and CEO of the Institute for Black Solidarity with Israel and the author of “Zionism and the Black Church.”
"These rallies are just slogans, hashtags, and a complete demonization of Israel, which is why we're seeing attacks on Jewish people—on Jewish neighborhoods," says Pastor Washington.
How did Black Lives Matter become anti-Israel? What is the origin of the terms “Palestine” and “Palestinian”? And how was the Soviet Union involved in creating the Palestinian national movement?
"The PLO [Palestine Liberation Organization] is a creation of the KGB," says Pastor Washington. "One of the KGB agents that defected explained that the liberation movements—many of them were crafted there, not for the help of people who may even have been legitimately struggling, but for the purpose of exploiting those people."
Pastor Washington believes that anti-Israel protesters are, knowingly or not, doing PR for terrorists, promoting a version of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that is not only false, but a cover for Hamas.
"You're not concerned about the honor killings. You're not concerned about the fact that gays get thrown off the rooftops in Gaza. You're not concerned that the people of Gaza have regularly protested Hamas to their peril," says Pastor Washington.
Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
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| 0:00.0 | They have these torture facilities sometimes right next to school, the kids can hear the people being tortured in |
| 0:04.8 | God's. Where's BLM? Where are they when these types of human rights abuses are happened on a daily |
| 0:10.3 | basis? In this episode I sit down with Pastor Dumasani Washington, founder and CEO of the Institute |
| 0:16.6 | for Black Solidarity with Israel, an author of Zionism and the Black Church. These rallies are |
| 0:22.8 | just slogans, hashtags, and a complete demonization of Israel, which is why we're seeing attacks |
| 0:28.3 | on Jewish neighborhoods. How did Black Lives Matter become anti-Israel? What is the origin of the |
| 0:34.0 | terms Palestine and Palestinian? And how is the Soviet Union involved in creating the Palestinian |
| 0:39.7 | national movement? The PLO is a creation of the KGB, one of the KGB agents that defected, |
| 0:45.2 | explained that the liberation movements many of them were crafted there, not for the help of |
| 0:49.2 | people who may even been legitimately struggling, but for the purpose of exploiting those people. |
| 0:54.4 | This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Janja Kellek. |
| 1:00.3 | Dumasani Washington, such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders. |
| 1:04.0 | Thank you, Jan, thanks for having me, great to be with you today. So we've been talking for some time |
| 1:09.2 | about these mass protests and rallies that have been happening on university campuses. |
| 1:16.3 | Today, as we're filming, there's actually a pro-Israel rally that's happening here in Washington, |
| 1:22.2 | DC, which you're here for. I appreciate you taking a bit of a moment to speak with me. |
| 1:27.3 | Sure, thanks for having me. You are not surprised at this whole thing that's happening on our campuses |
| 1:34.8 | across society right now. A lot of people are, and because this is something you've been following |
| 1:40.5 | for some time. So, you know, what's going on? It's so, there's so much to unpack, and again, |
| 1:49.1 | I appreciate you reaching out and having the conversation. And yeah, I would imagine, |
| 1:53.7 | especially now, for people who don't know about the Israeli Palace and the Enconflict, |
| 1:58.8 | who are not familiar with what's going on in the region, but they see all of this explosion |
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