The Black, Jewish and Palestinian liberation struggles are intertwined | Lily Greenberg Call and Henry Hicks IV

We must commit to the coalition work that might bring freedom for some of the most vulnerable among us

The two of us come together each year at the midway point between Easter and Passover to watch DreamWorks' 1998 film The Prince of Egypt. Having met in Des Moines, Iowa, as two young organizers on Vice-President Kamala Harris's 2019 presidential campaign, we quickly uncovered this overlap in childhood memory - spending our drives through pastures and cornfields singing along to the adaptation of the Exodus parable. While our introductions to the film came through different avenues - children's services at a Black Baptist church in suburban Atlanta and Passover seders in San Diego - we'd both been taught as children a common message of commitment to justice and freedom for oppressed people.

It's a value that steered our door-knocking and phone-banking to beat Donald Trump in 2020. A value that forged our friendship - bonded across differences and yet, through common dreams. And it's the same message that we carry with us in this current moment, Black and Jewish, respectively, arms interlocked together in organizing on behalf of Palestinians facing genocide in Gaza for the last 11 months. Our two communities working together on behalf of Palestinian freedom could not be more critical and should not be more obvious.

Lily Greenberg Call is a former special assistant to the chief of staff at the Department of the Interior. She worked on Biden's 2020 campaign and served in the administration until resigning to protest US policy in Gaza. She has appeared as a guest on MSNBC, CNN and NBC and given commentary for the Washington Post, Politico and the AP

Henry Hicks IV is a Washington DC-based writer and organizer. His work has appeared in Mother Jones, Teen Vogue, In These Times, the Drift, the Brooklyn Rail and elsewhere