Al-Abeed
Harat Al-Abeed means
"[N----] Slave Neighborhood"
This impoverished slum is home to some 10,000 descendants of Black African slaves. Harat Al-Abeed is located in Gaza City's Al-Jalla'a district.
Afro-Palestinian victims of Arab slavers for generations have been warehoused in the "Al-Abeed" district of Gaza.
Epic racism and discrimination persists in Palestinian society. Their plight is similar to those of other African-descended communities throughout the Middle East and North Africa. As social outcasts, Afro-Palestinians have never been able to shake off the racist slur "abeed," wielded by lighter-skinned Muslim Arabs for centuries.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has suffered viciously racial attacks in the Palestinian press. The cartoon to the left ran in the Palestinian Authority-controlled media outlet, Al Quds.
The New York Times reported in 2006 that the Palestinian cartoon "depicted Ms. Rice as pregnant with an armed monkey, and a caption that read, 'Rice speaks about the birth of a new Middle East.'"
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Palestinian media outlets have described Ms. Rice as a "black spinster" and "colored dark skin lady."
Hitler's best friend Haj Amin al-Husayni, former Mufti of Jerusalem and a popular personality in the Arab world during British rule.
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His horrific embrace of Hitler after the outbreak of World War II is legendary, as he worked to transform Palestinian Arabs into Nazis. Al-Husayni loved the "racial purity" of the Nazi party, which classified Black people as Untermenschen, or subhumans.
Under Nazi rule, people of African descent were subjected to forced sterilization, stripped of their citizenship, and faced brutal persecution as "enemies of the Aryan state."
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Al-Husayni celebrated the degradation of Black men and women.
Haj Amin al-Husayni was a fanboy of Adolf Hitler, as seen here, in December 1941
