Angela Davis
Angela Davis is an American political and human rights activist, author, and professor at UC Santa Cruz. She is also a Marxist, having been a Communist Party USA member and a founding member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism. She is a supporter of the BDS anti-Israel movement and is a terrorist sympathizer.
Angela Davis is an American political and human rights activist, author, and professor at UC Santa Cruz. She is also a Marxist, having been a Communist Party USA member and a founding member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism. She is a supporter of the BDS anti-Israel movement and a terrorist sympathizer.
In 1970, Davis was put on trial for her role in a California courtroom hostage-taking, which left a judge and three defendants dead. Davis bought the firearms used in an attack to free Black Panther members accused of killing a prison guard. She was acquitted by an all-white jury.
While in jail, Davis became a political celebrity in the USSR. She traveled to Cuba and East Berlin in the 1960s, remaining silent as the Soviet Union silenced opposition. A spokesman for Davis said the regime only jailed people “if they were undermining the government.”
She was photographed smiling with the General Secretary of the East German Communist Party, who gave orders to shoot at people trying to flee to West Germany. She didn’t speak out as the USSR criminalized homosexuality, nor did she protest against Castro’s brutal repressions of gay people.
Davis has supported convicted PFLP terrorist Rasmeah Odeh, who was convicted of killing two Hebrew University students in Israel in 1969: Edward Joffe and Leon Kanner.
Odeh confessed to the crime shortly after her arrest, and her trial was observed and deemed fair by the International Committee of the Red Cross. Odeh was deported from the US in 2017 after being convicted of fraud for failing to disclose her conviction and terror affiliation on her immigration and naturalization paperwork.
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Davis has also called for Marwan Barghouti’s release from Israeli prison. An Israeli civilian court convicted Barghouti on five counts of murder and one attempted murder. He was also implicated in four other terror attacks.
The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, an Alabama museum and research center dedicated to the Civil Rights Movement’s history, initially awarded, rescinded, then reawarded its 2018 Fred Shuttleworth Human Rights Award to Davis.
Originally the BCRI stated that Davis “does not meet all of the criteria on which the award is based.”
Despite eventually receiving the award, Davis’ record on human rights and support for totalitarian regimes does indeed disqualify her.
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