More than 1,000 African-American activists have signed a letter reaffirming solidarity with the plight of Palestinians and endorsing resistance to the Zionist entity and its products.

More than 1,000 African-American activists have signed a letter reaffirming solidarity with the plight of Palestinians and endorsing resistance to the Zionist entity and its products, known as the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in a report posted on RT website.

In the letter, signed by high-profile names including scholar Cornel West, 1960s activist Angela Davis, and Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors, the activists “reaffirmed solidarity with the Palestinian struggle and commitment to the liberation of Palestine’s land and people.”

The statement comes a year after the Zionist entity held weeks-long attacks of airstrikes and ground-based attacks on Gaza.

Referred to by the activists as “last summer’s Gaza massacre,” the offensive took the lives of more than 2,200 Palestinians.

The activists went on to make several connections between what Palestinians and the black community have been going through. It even drew a parallel between US police and the Zionist soldiers, noting they have trained together.

“Israel’s widespread use of detention and imprisonment against Palestinians evokes the mass incarceration of Black people in the US, including the political imprisonment of our own revolutionaries,” the statement read.

“Soldiers, police, and courts justify lethal force against us and our children who pose no imminent threat,” it added.

Following offensive on Gaza in July 2014, there has been increased awareness worldwide towards the Zionist violations of Palestinians' rights in the occupied territories.