When Israel went to war with Hamas, there immediately after erupted this conversation about

what side everyone is on.

It's maybe neither right nor useful, but it happened.

What social media shows me, a once young person of color, and my co-host

today, Halima Shaw, a still young person of color, is that many young people of color

are siding with Palestinians. But why? Two things you hear.

Israelis are colonizers and Palestinians simply want their land decolonized.

And also, Palestinians are on our side, like during our various American racial uprisings and reckonings and officer-involved shootings.

I remember there were Palestinians in Ferguson who were sharing their street battles with the police,

that there were tactics and ways to protect yourself

from tear gas and things like that.

And honestly, I just saw the circle as one and the same.

On Today explained why so much of the world seems to think the Palestinian struggle is also

their struggle.

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