| ID | 169416 |
| Title Proper | Troubling Idols |
| Other Title Information | Black-Palestinian Solidarity in U.S. Afro-Christian Spaces |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Webb. Taurean J |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article claims that insofar as they continue to omit analyses of colonialism and racialization, retellings of the biblical Exodus and of twentieth-century Black-Jewish relations—two massively significant narratives in the U.S. Black Christian imaginary—will inevitably continue to fuel the Zionist impulse that prevents much of Afro-Christianity from intentionally engaging Palestinian justice. Furthermore, the religious trope of chosenness, along with the dominant narration of the European Jewish Holocaust moment, have provided a politico-ethical basis for a unique type of dispensation that filters the two aforementioned retellings to ultimately deselect non-Jewish Palestinians from a recognizably complex humanity. The tools of the Black radical tradition, however, coupled with a reimagining of coalitional politics, carve out a radical Black Christian sensibility that is best equipped to speak to the devastations of military occupation and racist exclusion and forge life-giving relationships within the freedom struggles against them. |
| `In' analytical Note | Journal of Palestine Studies Vol. 48, No.4; Summer 2019: p.33-51 |
| Journal Source | Journal of Palestine Studies 2019-09 48, 4 |
| Key Words | Colonialism ; Exodus ; Eisodus ; Rracialization |