How Israel’s Black Panthers radicalized its Mizrahi Jews, and changed the country
A new history of the 1970s protest movement aims to plug a hole in Israel’s public record
A new history of the 1970s protest movement aims to plug a hole in Israel’s public record
Biton was a member of parliament for 15 years, serving as a symbol of persistent Mizrahi claims against Israel’s Ashkenazi-dominated ruling class
White nationalists are using the story of the hit movie “Black Panther” to boost their claim that nation-states should only have one ethnicity, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. Commenters on websites like Twitter, YouTube and 4chan have been claiming that the fictional kingdom of Wakanda, which isolates itself from the world using superior technology, is…
I think I may have been the last black person in America to see Black Panther. For weeks it was all I heard about. Once again, black people were talking proudly of their African heritage and culture; I haven’t seen this much black power since Spike Lee made Jah patches mandatory for the young black…
Black Panther is a remarkable movie. The film narrates the origin story of the Marvel superhero known as Black Panther, who hails from the never-colonized mythical African nation of Wakanda. It’s a country rich in unparalleled resources and technology where women play key roles in every success. The plot of the film takes off when…
(JTA and Hollywood assumptions about race. The well-received Marvel flick was written and directed by African-Americans (co-written by Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole, and directed by Coogler) and it features a mostly African-American cast, anchored by Chadwick Boseman in the title role as a black superhero. But some fans might not realize that the…
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