In 1964 Malcolm X visited Khan Younis and met with a poet who'd escaped being massacred by Israel in 1956. Already in 1958, Malcolm X argued that African Americans, if properly informed, would be “completely in sympathy with the Arab cause.” On 5 September 1964, he visited Gaza, including the Khan Younis refugee camp and a hospital. There he met Palestinian poet Harun Hashim Rashid, who told him about escaping the Israeli assault on Gaza in 1956, during which Israeli forces massacred Palestinians in Khan Younis. Malcolm recorded their conversation in his diary and copied a Palestinian poem about the longing to return home. After praying with local religious leaders, he wrote: “The spirit of Allah was strong.” On 15 September, he met the chairman of the newly established PLO, Ahmad al-Shukeiri, in Cairo. Two days later, he published *Zionist Logic*. His argument? Ancient religious claims do not give people the right to displace those already living on the land. He compared the Zionist argument to descendants of the Moors claiming Spain as theirs. He also accused Israel of serving Western imperial interests and using economic assistance in Africa as an instrument of neocolonialism, which he called “dollarism.” He continued criticizing Zionism in February 1965, shortly before his assassination on 21 February. In the picture: Malcolm X with Ahmad al-Shukeiri, founding chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), in Cairo on 15 September 1964, ten days after Malcolm's visit to Gaza and Khan Younis.