CNN contributor Marc Lamont Hill voiced support for violent Palestinian “resistance” to Israel during a speech at the United Nation on Wednesday, suggesting that Palestinians could be inspired by “slave revolts and self-defense and tactics otherwise divergent from Dr. King or Mahatma Gandhi.”
“Contrary to western mythology, black resistance to American apartheid did not come purely through Gandi and nonviolence,” said Hill. “If we are to operate in true solidarity with the Palestinian people, we must allow the Palestinian people the same range of opportunity and political possibility. If we are standing in solidarity with the Palestinian people, we must recognize the right of an occupied people to defend itself.”