Activism and Modern Slavery in the Arab World

Yo, good afternoon and Israel.

Meet Iman, a free Palestine, very anti-Israel activist who seems

to be of both Black American and Arab descent. Did I say she

was anti-Israel?

Yo, good afternoon and Israel.

Iman is one of the latest anti-Israel activists to very accidentally

discover a truth that is nearly 1,400 years old.

Arabs own and abuse Black African slaves and think absolutely

nothing of it. On October the 1st last year,

Iman posted this.

I land in Amman, and I have to go to gate 126.

So I walk over to 126, and I see a line for priority, I

see a line for economy, and then I see a group of Black

women, African women, huddled up and lined up by themselves.

Everybody's, like, really attached to each other.

They're clinging to each other, and I'm, like, watching this shit, and I'm like,

"Something's off. What the going on?" I'm standing there,

'cause I'm approaching

the gate. I haven't, like, fully walked all the way up, and a woman

comes up to me, and she's like, "Oh my God, you're Iman." I'm like, "Yeah,

what's

up, sis?"

She's like, "I love your videos," blah, blah, blah.

I'm like, "What's going on over here?" She's like,

"Oh, they're slaves." I was

like, "Excuse me?" She's like, "They're gonna be slaves." I'm like, " you

mean? you mean?"

On a connecting flight to Lebanon through Jordan, Iman sees Ethiopian

women being shipped like cargo to their Arab masters.

When Iman asked what she was seeing, her adoring fan said...

"Oh, they're slaves."

Over the next two videos, Iman gives real-time, raw,

unfiltered reaction to a world she never knew existed.

Again, for Iman, the worst part seemed to be

that no one thought anything

of it.

Everyone around me knows what's going on, and they're complying, and I'm like, I've

really just walked into Jim Crow, Arab edition.

And every time I try to do anything, they...

Oh my God, they put the magnifying glass on me like,

"Don't you dare."

Check out what she says to her fellow free Palestine activists.

And we're just watching this in 4K, and we're all meeting up at the

same time for Gaza. Like, what sense does that make?

How are we fighting one occupation when we're an occupation for these African

women? Like, make it make any sense.

Once workers from mostly African and Southeast Asian countries apply

for jobs in Arab countries, very often their passports are taken so

they can't escape the slavery they unknowingly stepped into.

Then you do your homework. One in four Ethiopian women are found

dead

in the hands of Lebanon

due to, A, suicide, or B, trying to escape.

In 1969, while living in Algeria, Black Panther and

anti-Israel activist Eldridge Cleaver discovered the Arab enslavement of Black

Africans. It was the first step in Cleaver's journey

that ultimately led him to

become a very proud Zionist. Throughout Iman's videos, you can see

the pain, confusion, and anger in her face,

hear it in her voice.

Watch her describe her conversation with an African woman who is a former

slave.

She's from Sierra Leone, and I asked her about this.

She's like, "You know, we came over 'cause they said they'd give

us work.

They would pay us 4 or 500 a month. And then when I came, she,

my madam took my passport. She won't give it back." I was like,

"What'd

you do?" She's like, "I ran away. I don't wanna work for her. I'm not...

I don't wanna, you know, I'm, I'm my own woman."