Ta-Nehisi Coates's comments on Palestine at the Baldwin & Co. event, where he was in conversation with Joy-Ann Reid, were primarily an extension of the ideas in his book, The Message. His main points regarding the Israel-Palestine conflict include: * The Jim Crow Parallel: Coates has repeatedly drawn a parallel between the conditions and systemic nature of Palestinian oppression in the occupied territories and the Jim Crow South in the United States. He stated that he felt "the glare of racism b