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January 16, 2024

Distorting the Legacy of Martin Luther King on the Subject of Israel

A revealing interview made no mention of Palestinians.

For the past several years, Martin Luther King Day has provided an opportunity for supporters of Israel to invoke the great civil-rights leader’s statements of sympathy for Zionism, and for its enemies to try to argue that, were he alive today, he would feel differently. This year, members of the latter group could turn to a November article ostensibly reporting on what King had to say about “Israel’s relationship with the Palestinian people.” Martin Kramer observes that in the 1967 interview the article cites, King never mentioned the Palestinians at all:

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