‘Do not bow’: ex-Black Panther praises pro-Palestinian student protesters from prison

Mumia Abu-Jamal tells New York City students they're on the right side of history by deciding not to be silent and to speak out'

In a powerful and rousing live address to students at the City University of New York (CUNY) on Friday night, the incarcerated Black political activist Mumia Abu-Jamal praised the pro-Palestinian movement growing at US colleges as being on the right side of history.

It is a wonderful thing that you have decided not to be silent and decided to speak out against the repression that you see with your own eyes," Abu-Jamal, a former Black Panther, said while calling from Pennsylvania's Mahanoy state prison. You are part of something massive, and you are part of something that is on the right side of history.