The Prophecies of Malcolm X: Zionism Is a New Kind of Colonialism

By Sam Husseini / Substack

I doubt it’s a coincidence that Malcolm — born 99 years ago this year and assassinated on Feb. 21, 1965 — was a model for the martyred Palestinian writer Refaat Alareer. Indeed, at a talk in 2012, Alareer would recall his introduction to Malcolm: “I was teaching a course, and there was an amazing passage about this man, of whom I had never heard before. The passage was so eloquent, so articulate, so amazing that it pulled me into this personality, this area of knowledge that I, again, never knew before. … Malcolm X has had, since then, an amazing influence on my life, to the extent that I now name him as my number one role model.’“

Indeed, much of Malcolm analysis holds up decades later as Israel slaughters Palestinians daily.

Little known, Malcolm wrote in the The Egyptian Gazette in 1964: “The Israeli Zionists are convinced they have successfully camouflaged their new kind of colonialism. … The modern 20th century weapon of neo-imperialism is ‘dollarism.’ The Zionists have mastered the science of dollarism: the ability to come posing as a friend and benefactor, bearing gifts and all other forms of economic aid and offers of technical assistance. Thus, the power and influence of Zionist Israel in many of the newly ‘independent’ African nations has fast-become even more unshakeable than that of the 18th century European colonialists… and this new kind of Zionist colonialism differs only in form and method, but never in motive or objective.”

In the US, we have a prevalence of putting a black face on US empire, as with Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who was mentored by Madeleine Albright and just vetoed the third UN resolution for a ceasefire. Malcolm said years ago: “They have a new gimmick every year. They’re going to take one of their boys, black boys, and put him in the cabinet so he can walk around Washington with a cigar. Fire on one end and fool on the other end. And because his immediate personal problem will have been solved he will be the one to tell our people: ‘Look how much progress we’re making. I’m in Washington, D.C., I can have tea in the White House. I’m your spokesman, I’m your leader.’ While our people are still living in Harlem in the slums. Still receiving the worst form of education.” — “The Prospects for Freedom in 1965,” at the Militant Labor Forum, New York City, Jan. 7, 1965. Audio from this and other speeches here…

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