Billy Porter signed an open letter by the Creative Community For Peace asserting Israel's right to 'defend' itself, justifying the murder of tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians and the ethnic cleansing of millions more.
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In an interview with the Guardian (March 2024), Porter was asked about his views on Palestine as he is set to play the pro-Palestinian literary giant James Baldwin, he appeared politically unaware and resentful to have been asked a question about how his views on the issue relate to Baldwin.
Porter said, "This is not my hill, and I am not going to die on it. It’s not mine! I’m not Jewish, nor am I Palestinian... What’s going on over there is horrific – the choices that we, in America, have made, are wrong. Please don’t make me a poster child for that. I don’t want to be in the conversation, because I don’t know enough about it!"
Also, "And the Palestinians – not Palestinians, what are the people called, who started the shit? The extremists?... I don’t even know. All I know is that the extremists came in and did something that was horrific, and then they retaliated."
In relation to how his views relate to Baldwin, "There’s nothing to navigate – I’m not James Baldwin, he’s a character, so I have to be true to the character. I don’t know what he was talking about in the 40s, 50s, 60s – it’s 2024 now. I don’t have the history to even know what the version of the Israel-Palestine conflict was when he was around."
Porter finally closes the interview reacting to the pro-Palestine comments he recieves on social media saying, "I’ve been getting a lot of bullshit online about it – I’m like, ‘I don’t know, y’all!’ The man’s been dead since 1987, please!"
Creative Community for Peace Letter:
A staunchly pro-Zionist organisation, the Creative Community for Peace is on a mission to “galvanize support against the cultural boycott of Israel" and therefore working against anti-genocide and anti-apartheid protestors who want a free, liberated Palestine and the end of the 75+ year Israeli-occupation of Palestinian lands.
The Creative Community for Peace supports Israel by promoting dangerous Zionist propaganda that seeks to demonise Palestinians and those advocating for their liberation, defaming and smearing them as "calling for the murder of Jews everywhere” — both across its website and its social medias.
It also claims that Israel should and would take "the necessary steps to defend itself,” asserts Israel’s right to exist and declares the very crucial, compassion-driven anti-Zionist campaign as a “misinformation campaign spearheaded by Iran” — despite the very real, very well-documented genocide that has claimed the lives of over 35,000 RECORDED Palestinian deaths, without accounting for the ones that Israel has made a disconcerted effort to conceal.
These are crude attempts at white-washing and sanitising both history and the present through a revisionist Zionist lens that erases the 75+ years of subjugation, torture, assault, murder, ethnic cleansing and systematic erasure of Palestinians by Zionist machinations, Israel and even Israelis themselves.
By participating in such revisionist history —and signing their letter — this individual is actively perpetuating the oppression and marginalisation of Palestinians and are therefore complicit in the promotion of the Zionist agenda seeking to whitewash the atrocities committed against the Palestinian people while also vilifying those who advocate for their rights and liberation.
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