{"id":54752,"date":"2017-08-07T20:47:21","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T20:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54752"},"modified":"2022-05-13T01:00:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T01:00:25","slug":"afro-palestinians-talk-heritage-and-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54752","title":{"rendered":"Afro-Palestinians talk heritage and resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Afro-Palestinians talk heritage and resistance<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Al Jazeera<\/a>
\n2017-08-05<\/p>\n

Jaclynn Ashly<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nTheir lives are characterised by checkpoints, daily interrogations, night raids and incessant fears of detention [Jaclynn Ashly\/Al Jazeera]<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Palestinians of African<\/a> descent describe their daily struggles against ‘double-racism’ and Israeli occupation<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Occupied East Jerusalem<\/a> – “It’s hard not to get detained here,” 16-year-old Abdallah Balalawi, an Afro-Palestinian<\/a> from Chad<\/a>, told Al Jazeera<\/em> from his home in the Old City<\/a>. “I have to be aware of the way I look and even the way I walk to avoid making the Israelis suspicious.”<\/p>\n

Abdallah is one of at least 350 Afro-Palestinians from Nigeria<\/a>, Chad, Senegal<\/a> and Sudan<\/a> residing in the Muslim Quarter<\/a> of the Old City, adjacent to the Al-Aqsa Mosque<\/a> compound. The Afro-Palestinian neighbourhood is not the easiest to find, accessible only through an Israeli police checkpoint<\/a> where officers interrogate anyone who is not from the local community.<\/p>\n

On a nearly hidden road straddled between two police blockades, third generation Afro-Palestinian teenagers tell Al Jazeera about the world they inherited, characterised by checkpoints, daily interrogations, night raids<\/a> and incessant fears of detention by Israeli forces.<\/p>\n

Most Afro-Palestinians in this tight-knit community came to the region as religious pilgrims during the British Mandate for Palestine<\/a>, and many have been part of the Palestinian resistance movement since Israel’s establishment in 1948<\/a>. Others arrived as volunteers with the Egyptian army to fight against Zionist militias taking control of historic Palestine<\/a> during the Arab-Israeli war<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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Palestinians of African descent describe their daily struggles against ‘double-racism’ and Israeli occupation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,820],"tags":[27417,25971,14082,5074,27416,25601],"class_list":["post-54752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-religion","tag-abdallah-balalawi","tag-afro-palestinians","tag-al-jazeera","tag-israel","tag-jaclynn-ashly","tag-palestine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54752"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63805,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54752\/revisions\/63805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}