On Palestinian and Black Revolutionary Solidarity

Members of the Black Panther Party and the Palestinian delegation at the first Pan-African Cultural Festival in Algiers, July of 1969

Decolonization is not a metaphor.

Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang’s paper with this title is emblematic of the recent responses to the revolutionary struggles in Palestine against the settler-colonial and western-backed occupying regime they have been displaced by since the beginning of the Nakba in 1948 (it is still ongoing). The jibberish about “decolonizing a…