Black Vocies for Isreal

“I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.”

~Nelson Mandela
(AP, October 19, 1999)

"The African movement means

to us what the Zionist movement

must mean to the Jews.Palestine

is the only refuge that harassed

Jewry has today".

~W.E.B. DuBois

"I can understand you. I am also a member
of a persecuted minority.

~Dr. Ralph Bunche

During Israel’s War of Independence, Menachem Begin recalled that Dr. Ralph Bunche, Jr. conveyed this to him

Sharon made a bold and painful step toward a long-term solution....
He deserves a partnership that is just as bold and committed.”
“The moral burden now substantially shifts to the Palestinians.”

Civil Rights Leader
Jesse Jackson

Commenting about
Israel's relinquishment
of Gaza on August 26, 2005

Even though I'm not Jewish...Israel is one of the few causes
I feel good about supporting.Blacks and Jews are hooked up
and bound together by a common history of persecution...If
someone besides a black ever sings the real gut bucket blues,
it'll be a Jew. We both know what it's like to be someone else's
footstool.

~Ray Charles
(1976)



“I cannot stand idly by, even though I happen to live in the United
States and even though I happen to be an American Negro and not
be concerned about what happens to the Jews in Soviet Russia. For
what happens to them happens to me and you, and we must be concerned.”

"Peace for Israel means security, and we must stand with all our might to protect its right to exist, its territorial integrity. I see Israel as one of the great outposts of democracy in the world, and a marvelous example of what can be done, how desert land can be transformed into an oasis of brotherhood and democracy. Peace for Israel means security and that security must be a reality.”

~Martin Luther King