Dr. Cornel West: Palestine is the moral question of our generation
Dr. Cornel West on the singular importance of the Palestine question.
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@IAmTheWalrus6700
January 10, 2026 at 1:59 pm
Dr. West just radiates love and integrity and seriousness I can't get enough
@adamesd3699
January 10, 2026 at 1:59 pm
Well this was foreshadowing.
@macdonaldmuli2385
January 10, 2026 at 1:59 pm
Am from Africa,cornel go for the us president, you already Godsend
@grumpymcgrump5822
January 10, 2026 at 1:59 pm
Sorry folks, but I think this is all a bunch of B.S. You're entitled to your opinions, and you can support whatever acts of violence you want to. But my opinion of the Palestinians was set when they celebrated in the streets and passed out candy after the 9/11 bombings. Celebrating such acts is disgusting.
Doc West is just another apologist for the inexcusable.
@nursemcfarlane6655
January 10, 2026 at 1:59 pm
This may be the moral question of the 21st century. Do we as a world have another 50 years in us?
@Dan-cn6zp
January 10, 2026 at 1:59 pm
Hamas is responsible for the Death of 27 Americans Hamas must Go!
Cornel West Supports Hamas!
@SuperDagbo
January 10, 2026 at 1:59 pm
Mr. West if you're worried about babies being killed why don't you say something about abortion.
@rodluther982
January 10, 2026 at 1:59 pm
While Palestine is a very important question for this generation, paying reparations to Foundational Black Americans/Descendants of American slavery is even more important. We need to do right by the people who built this country and continue to suffer under stifling oppression. This is the question of our time. Does our government have the cojones to do the right thing? West gives lip service to this but has yet to come up with a definitive plan. He’s a lift all boats, kum ba yah, we shall overcome kind of guy.
@davidrobinson919
January 10, 2026 at 1:59 pm
I've learned so much from this man about the united states every since he announced his run for President.
@missricka6801
January 10, 2026 at 1:59 pm
God Bless Brother West for standing up for our Palestinian brothers and sisters and speaking out against the genocide waged against them by Israel and with full support and endorsement of the US. At least the US is not hypocritical in rubber stamping what is the exact same policy enacted and carried out against indigenous people in our country. Two things that each of us can do is support Bro. West's candidacy AND financially support those NGOs who provide humanitarian aid to Palestinian people.
@ac-uk6hs
January 10, 2026 at 1:59 pm
So what's amazing is that there's 175 countries in the world and each of them have huge problems but if you spend a disproportionate amount of your time focusing on the one place that is full of Jews no matter how good it is or how much they contribute or vice versa and not focusing on the monstrosity is going on in Africa and the monstrosity is going on in Far East Asia and I'm onstrosity is going on in China and the monstrosity is going on in Ukraine and the monstrosity is going on with socialist policies in Central and South America and the monstrosity is going on with the narcos that run Mexico and have destroyed Mexico's future and past. Etc etc if you only focus on the Jewish state then it's very obvious it's not Israel you hate but it's the Jews in it that you hate and it's not Palestinians that you love it's the fact that they hate the Jews that you love.
@inprocessla174
January 10, 2026 at 1:59 pm
We need to ask Israelis how to get our ancestorol land back. They seem to have figured it out
@roguepoet6645
January 10, 2026 at 1:59 pm
It's a holy war. What jews are doing is nothing different than what Abraham did in the very same land… kill non jews.
This is what the god of Israel wants… human sacrifice.
If anyone doubts what I'm saying, then i implore you to read the bible… the greatest evil in human history.
The only good in the Bible is the very first page… Genesis 1. Turn the page to Genesis 2 and its all wicked from there on until the very last page when Jesus comes, not to save, as is the christian lie, but to slaughter all that do not submit to the god of Israel.
Read the bible. And count all of the lives murdered at the command of the god of Israel.
The Friendly Atheist, has a great video counting the number of people in the bible murdered by the command of the god of Israel. The total number will surprise you.
https://youtu.be/dxQtV_YSo8I
Murders by God: 3,000,000
Murders by Satan: 7
Who's the real evil one???
A. The God of Israel
@walterdemo2895
January 10, 2026 at 1:59 pm
Love Cornel but he truely is wrong. #1 It's not an illegal invasion. It clearly was a provoked invasion by the US!. #2 The US has been funding Ukraine & its neo-fascist ideology since ww2. #3 Stephan Bandera was a CIA asset that slaughtered Jews Poles & Russians. #4 The US couped the govn't in Ukraine in 2014 and start to kill Russian speaking Ukrainians. #5 In order to save these ppl Russian preemptively enter Ukraine under the SMO. This is not a war this a preemptive SMO! that is fully legal under international law!. #6 The US does not care more about Ukrainians that anyone else black brown jews middle easterners domestic Whites or Palestinians. They equally hate everyone & only looking out for there own corporate cabal of greed. If they send there own to fight & die for profits. Why would they care about anyone else?!. These MIC corporations are maching eating flesh everywhere they go & anyone that steps in there path is collateral damage. Tens of thousands Ukrainian children are missing. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are dead. Hundreds thousands more are wounded permanently. Millions have been displaced trafficked by the US. Any words of this kind on MSM?. I think not!.
Cornel….Start taking Jimmy Dores advice. He can help you help all of us!!!!
@aprescoup
January 10, 2026 at 1:59 pm
Ao what has West done for Palestinians other than urge his cult followers to vote for the ZIONIST Biden; for Zionist Bernie, Zionist Obama, Zionist John Kerry, Zionist establishment Democrats, etc… you get the drift of his grift yet?
If not then vet him! Let me help you start the process cuz, cheering the electoral spectacle after spectacle and, time after time, repeating the original sin of refusing to vet and understand the narcissism-brimming politics of neoliberal-elite manufactured celebrities in general, and Cornel West, in this case, is not the path to anything other than neo-feudalism. West having been the most frequent guest on neoliberal insider Charlie Rose's show, for a fugcking reason, is a very bad look for starters. Here, then, a small looksie at Cornel:
Charlie Rose's Cornel West interview, 1993:
Charlie Rose:
“Should the United States, in some call of justice and morality, and being on the side of all that is good say to the world: we will not stand by and allow this to happen"
Cornel West:
In Bosnia, yes, yes, should have done it a year ago
Charlie Rose:
With American military leading the way?
Cornel West:
That’s right. That’s exactly right.
One does not fight HITLER based on national interest. You don’t fight apartheid based on national interest. You fight it on the basis of 1) it being wrong 2) of it destabilizing the region leading toward wider conflict 3) allowing brutes and tyrants to get away with such gross dehumanization…such ugly behavior towards others on all three levels.
And if we had done this[bombs away!] about 12 months ago, we could have done this simply with either airstrikes and making symbolic gestures…. At this point (1993) we’re talking about long term investment, we’re talking about American soldiers and so forth, so you’re actually right…200,000, 300,000, some say even half a million…
Charlie Rose:
Does it sound like Vietnam to you?
Cornel West:
No I don’t think the….”
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…and Adolph Reed's 1995 Village Voice article undressing the self-appointed and neoliberal elite propped-up, and minted, "black public intellectuals" like West, Gates, Dyson et alia: "What Are The Drums Saying, Booker"
@kevinsieg2076
January 10, 2026 at 1:59 pm
Let's not forget that when the Nation of Israel was created in the late 40s, every bordering Muslim country denied Palestinian refugees, but to this day use the Palestinians as a rallying cry.
@aprescoup
January 10, 2026 at 1:59 pm
You cannot be serious when you fail to vet another neoliberal-elite creation like West.
How did you feel Bernie Sanders?
Or, more directly, how would you feel about someone exhorting the US to engage bombing nations and invading them with, say 500,000 US led NATO troops? Cool with that? Socialist enough?
@lalodaniels1388
January 10, 2026 at 1:59 pm
I am Mexican-American Roman Catholic, and what Cornell West just said has convinced me to change my vote for him for President.
@fleetwoodcad1
January 10, 2026 at 1:59 pm
What if they’re using the antisemitic finger pointing because they’re afraid Native American Indians will get land back if we compare and contrast.
@cheesepuff455
January 10, 2026 at 1:59 pm
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