The Northampton Seminar
Robert Nicholson
It’s almost accepted knowledge today that Dr. Martin Luther King was, or would have been, deeply hostile to the State of Israel. Social activists have been using his name, his image, and snippets from his powerful speeches to bookend their own unfair condemnation of the Jewish state for years. Not having done the research myself, I like most people believed their rhetoric and chalked up King’s anti-Israelism as possibly his only visible flaw.
The truth, I am happy to report, is quite the opposite: Dr. King was an unshakable Zionist with deep affection for Israel and the Jewish people.
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/recovering-dr-kings-lost-legacy-on-israel/
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