The Black Lives Matters movement has rich precedents not just in the American Black Panthers movement of the 1960s and 1970s, but in an Israeli activist group of the same name. Back in 1971 a group of Mizrahi young people gathered in the Musrara neighborhood of Jerusalem. Fed up with Israeli policies that discriminated against its non-Ashkenazi citizens (including, notoriously, medical experimentation) they formed their own protest party, and called it the Israeli Black Panthers.