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=== Criticism of Israel === In what [[Ralph Featherstone]], program head at the Atlanta office, presented as a contribution to a "third-world alliance" of the "oppressed", the June-July 1967 SNCC Newsletter published an article by the Committee's communications director, [[Ethel Minor|Ethel Minor,]] embracing the Arab cause in the [[Six-Day War]].<ref name=":10">{{Cite news |last=Times |first=Gene Roberts Special To the New York |date=1967-08-15 |title=S.N.C.C. CHARGES ISRAEL ATROCITIES; Black Power Group Attacks Zionism as Conquering Arabs by 'Massacre' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1967/08/15/archives/sncc-charges-israel-atrocities-black-power-group-attacks-zionism-as.html |access-date=2025-05-20 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Drawing heavily on a pamphlet published by the [[Palestine Research Center|Palestine Research Center,]] it asserted that [[Zionism|Zionists]] had conquered Arab land through "terror, force, and massacres" (a purported photograph of executions in 1956 carried the caption: "this is the [[Gaza Strip]], Palestine, not [[Dachau concentration camp|Dachau]], Germany"); that "Israel segregates those few Arabs who remained in their homeland . . . under martial law"; that "dark-skinned Jews from North Africa and the Middle East are also second class citizens"; and that the resulting state is "tool and foothold for American and British exploitation" in the region.<ref name=":10" /><ref name=":11">{{Cite book |last=Carson |first=Clayborne |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/In_Struggle/Fm9v7KKj_UQC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq |title=In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=1981 |isbn=978-0674447271 |location=Cambridge MA |pages=266-269}}</ref> Anticipating swift condemnation from white liberals, the office head, Johnny Wilson, called a press conference to announce that the article did not represent SNCC’s official position. But a subsequent statement from the office in August, “The Middle-East Crisis”, broadly endorsed Minor's analysis while conceding the horrors of the [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]], and noting that were also Jewish voices critical of Zionism and Israeli policy.<ref name=":11" /> [[Seymour Martin Lipset]] was among the prominent Jewish friends of the movement outraged. Having heard King rebuke a student who echoed the SNCC line on “Zionists”, he suggested that, in contrast to SNCC, the SCLC leader “grasped the identity between anti-Israel politics and antisemitic ranting”.<ref>Martin Kramer (2016), [https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/martinkramer/files/words_of_martin_luther_king.pdf "In the Words of Martin Luther King,"] in Martin Kramer, ''The War on Error: Israel, Islam, and the Middle East.'' New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction (253-67) 263..</ref> For the historian, [[Clayborne Carson]], the controversy was further evidence that Carmichael and staff members in Atlanta were moving toward "racial separatist positions that discounted the possibility of future black-white coalitions".<ref name=":11" />
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