Afropessimism, Black-Palestinian Solidarity and Unthought Black Suffering

In this video, I will review a brilliant essay by an Afropessimist brother called Nicholas Brady. The article on his Out Of Nowhere blog entitled "The Void Speaks Back: Black Suffering as the Unthought of the American Studies Association’s Academic Boycott of Israel" "https://outofnowhereblog.wordpress.com/2013/12/23/the-void-speaks-back-black-suffering-as-the-unthought-of-the-american-studies-associations-academic-boycott-of-israel/ which points out that the belligerents in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict are united in their anti-blackness. It argues that the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement ignored the violence that the Israeli state metes out against Black people. It suggests that one of the reasons for this omission is a perception that bringing up Black suffering would take attention away from the "true issue" - settler colonialism. But the author argues that in fact, Black suffering is at the very heart of the conflict, it is the unthought centre. Both Israelis and Ara…