On May 9, 2017, Webb published an article in Jaddaliya titled: “‘Born Again’ in Deir Nidham: Against the Illegal Military Occupation, from a Black-American Prophetic Christian Perspective.”
In the article, Webb wrote: “But the State of Israel, much like the US, is facilitating a white supremacist racial caste. There is a deliberate internal ordering and hierarchizing of society, based on who is designated the ‘most and least valuable’—all en route to perpetually creating and maintaining an ethnically homogenous nation-state.”
In 2019, Webb authored an academic article where he implicated [p. 34] Israel in “colonialism and racialization,” as well as the “military occupation of Palestine.” He also endorsed [p. 43] an “explicit critique of Israel” by anti-Israel activists and scholars that Israel is “a genocidal and apartheid state.”
Webb later showed [p. 47] support for scholarly work aimed at “ending Zionist occupation” and praised scholars who claim that “Israeli Zionism is an imperial project of dislocation and devastation…”
Zionism is the belief that Jews have the right to self-determination in their own national home, and the right to develop their national culture. Zionism is a core part of the identity of most Jews.
On July 8, 2020, Webb wrote an article where he began: “There is nothing in the world like living under simultaneous racial caste and military occupation, a condition of historic Palestine since the mid-twentieth century.”
The article was titled: “‘If They Take You In The Morning’: M4BL [Movement for Black Lives] and the Palestine Justice Movement.” In the article, he claimed that the death of Ahmed Erekat was an example of “Israeli military killings of Palestinians.” He dedicated the article to the Erekat Family and others.
Ahmad Erekat [Ahmad Moustafa Erekat; Ahmed Erakat] was killed by Israeli security forces after he accelerated and rammed his car into soldiers at a checkpoint. One female soldier was injured. The incident was captured on video.
On June 1, 2021, Webb spoke in a YouTube video where he said [00:15:07]: “Palestinians…reflect on it as the Great Catastrophe, the Nakba…And there was war, and there was bloodshed, there was pillage, there was rape, there was land theft. And many of these things continue to happen to this day.”
The term “Nakba” is generally translated as “catastrophe” in Arabic, referring to the outcome of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It is a term used to delegitimize the creation of the State of Israel by drawing a comparison to the Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, meaning “catastrophe.”
On June 23, 2021, Webb said [00:34:26] in a Youtube video that Israeli towns bearing Biblical names are “not holy sites at all, they are settlements. They are Israeli Jewish settlements, cantons that are designed to further break up indigenous land.”
One way anti-Israel activists spread antisemitism is by denying Jewish history, with the aim of delegitimizing restored Jewish sovereignty, attacking Israel’s legitimacy and portraying Jews as foreign to the Land of Israel.
Webb also suggested [00:32:29] that the modern State of Israel is not “genealogically or physiologically…continuous with the Israel that we open up our Bibles and read about and talk about.”
In the same video, Webb discussed violence at the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem the previous month. He said [00:27:39]: “Since Israel is a security state, however, police presence increases during these moments of pilgrimage…what the heightened security measures really mean, all they mean is an increasingly aggressive tactic to further expel persons of color. And there were reports…of the Israeli military raiding the holy sites during Ramadan. Think about that. Mosques that they’re not even supposed to go into out of respect for the faith. Raiding them.”
On May 7-10, 2021, violent clashes broke out between Palestinian worshippers and Israeli police at the Al-Aqsa compound, following claims that Al-Aqsa Mosque was in danger. The allegation that Jews “threaten” to destroy Al-Aqsa has been a traditional pretext for Arab attacks on Jews long before the existence of the modern Jewish state.
On February 18, 2022, Webb featured in an aijcast.com podcast where he said [00:09:31]: “Black thinkers across the political spectrum are kind of looking at the israeli occupation and saying well, wait a minute this is about more than just protecting ones sovereignty, protecting ones right to exist. This seems to be an expansionist project.”
