CROWN FAMILY CENTER FOR JEWISH AND ISRAEL STUDIES

Israel's Black Panthers

April 11, 2024

The Crown Family Center hosted a panel on Israel's Black Panthers featuring Professor Henriette Dahan Kalev from Ben Gurion University and Israeli-American journalist Asaf Elia Shalev. The speakers discussed the struggle and legacy of the Black Panthers, a Mizrahi activist movement inspired by the American Black Panthers, who fought for racial and ethnic equality in the 1970s in Israel and reshaped the nation's socio-political landscape.