The Black Panthers And Palestine

Résumé: The question of the Black Panthers’ relationship with Palestine is quickly dismissed. A discussion of the Black Panthers and the praxis of Palestine’s national liberation, however, permits us to address epistemology. In the United States, a formal hearing in Congress is principal method by which members of legislative committees collect and analyze information. The fact that oral evidence is taken under oath, and that textual evidence can be written into the Congressional Record grants information introduced within these hearings a legal status of “justified and true.” In the following discussion, a hypothesis that such information regarding the Black Panther Party rose to the standard of “coincidentally correct” is tested. So as to limit the scope of this inquiry, assertions regarding the Black Panther Party, the Panthers’ "International Office" in Algiers, and other “Third World Liberation Movements” are considered. These include South Africa’s Umkhonto weSizwe, Palestine’s Fatah, and, by extension, Algeria’s national liberation struggle as a means to test Gettier’s “Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?”

Publié dans la revue: مجلة روافد للدراسات و الأبحاث العلمية في العلوم الاجتماعية والإنسانية