I’m a Jew of color. Ta-Nehisi Coates can’t apply U.S. lessons to Israel

Ta-Nehisi Coates' new book, titled The Message, attempts to inspire a thoughtful discourse on injustice in the Holy Land .

He misses the mark by trying to draw a direct analogy between the historical experiences of Black Americans and those of Palestinian Arabs .

The history of conquest and oppression in Israel is infinitely more complicated than it is in the U.S ..

The Middle East isn’t just the geographic location of the Jewish state; it’s a core part of its culture and identity.

A majority of Israeli Jews ’ recent ancestors lived in and were driven out of Arab and Muslim majority countries before coming to Israel as refugees.

For Coates , the presence of Black and brown Jews in Israel is an odd complication to the binary through which he sees us.

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