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Here’s an unusual case of “intersectionality.”

The founder of the Institute for Black Solidarity with Israel, Pastor Dumisani Washington, told students at Ohio State University that African Americans should be particularly grateful to Israel, The Lantern reports.

Washington said Israel was “the first country in the world to have more embassies in the continent of Africa than any other country besides the United States,” has fought terrorist group Boko Haram in Nigeria, and never tried to colonize the continent:

Israel helped find the cure for ebola, they discovered the cure for African kidney disease, they built academic libraries all across Africa, the largest solar field in East Africa was built by an Israeli company. Israel fights famine in Somalia, they rescue African refugees in the Sinai.

In remarks sure to make him a target of pro-Palestine activists on campus, Washington told students not to feel sorry for Gaza’s rulers:

Let’s talk about how Hamas, the ruling party of Gaza, is the second wealthiest terror organization in the world, this according to Forbes … Let’s talk about what kind of human rights Hamas practices. Hamas makes money in African trafficking … Yes, Africans fleeing places like Sudan, in order for them to get somewhere free like Israel or Europe they have to cross the Sinai, where they come into contact with Hamas slave traffickers.

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