Some 1,000 black pastors nationwide are reported to have weighed in to pressure President Joe Biden to force a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
According to one pastor, the war “has evoked the kind of deep-seated angst among black people that I have not seen since the civil rights movement.”
And per another, regarding the Palestinians, “we see them as a part of us … They are oppressed people. We are oppressed people.”
Indeed, in a Gallup poll at the end of November, 61% of white adults expressed approval for the Israeli military action taken in Gaza, whereas only 30% of “people of color” expressed approval.
Unfortunately, much of what is driving opinion on this issue among many black Americans is bad, confused information.
The Hamas terrorist attack in Israel, resulting in some 1,200 deaths, targeted Israeli Jews. On Sept. 11, 2001, our…
