"From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free": The right of colonized peoples to voice calls for freedom
O n November 26, 2018, my colleague Professor Marc Lamont Hill, Steve Charles Professor of Media, Cities, and Solutions in Temple’s Klein College of Media and Communications, delivered a speech to the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People at the United Nations Day of Solidarity. In his powerful speech, Professor Hill offered an impassioned call for solidarity between people of color, drawing out a vision for anti-racist solidarity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvzSv28z97o The speech made by Professor Hill is an excellent exemplar of principled communication scholarship that reaches out to the call for social justice. In his speech, Professor Hill calls out Israeli state-sponsored atrocities and the ways in which these atrocities have systematically oppressed, colonized, and threatened the Palestinian people. He categorically outlines the violence, racism, and torture carried out routinely by Israel on Palestinians.