Speech delivered on May 23, 2026, by Dr. Jemima Pierre, for the Global Pan African Movement’s Africa Liberation Day celebration in Syracuse, New York, themed, “Haiti & Cuba: Defending Pan-African Unity Against Imperialism.”

As the lynching of Zerhom reminds us, any Black person living within Israel can easily become a victim of ethno-supremacist Zionism. Attacks by individuals and mobs are bolstered by the equally disturbing racist language of some Israeli politicians as well as the punitive anti-Black actions by the Israeli state.