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Queen Elizabeth boycotted Israel, Charles hoped for “freedom, justice & equality to all Palestinians”

[email protected] September 22, 2022 elizabeth, israel boycott, king charles

Queen Elizabeth was horrified by Israel’s occupation of Palestine, & refused invitations to visit Israel. In 2020 Prince Charles, on a trip to the West Bank, expressed his heartbreak over witnessing the ‘suffering’ and ‘hardship’ endured by the Palestinian population under Israeli occupation… He said his “dearest wish” was that the future would bring “freedom, justice and equality to all Palestinians…”

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Over 120 Countries, but Never Israel: Queen Elizabeth’s Unofficial Boycott

[email protected] September 10, 2022 Buckingham Palace, Israel, Margaret Thatcher, Queen Elizabeth II, United Kingdom

In her 70-year reign, Queen Elizabeth crisscrossed the globe, but purposely skipped Israel. In 1984, during a visit to Jordan, she found the settlements ‘depressing’ and IDF planes over the West Bank frightening… For decades, the British royal family had boycotted Israel. It wasn’t an official boycott, but it was often unofficially acknowledged by officials…

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Flashback: Israel offered to sell South Africa nuclear warheads

[email protected] August 17, 2022 apartheid South Africa, nuclear deal, nuclear warheads

British newspaper reveals documents from 1970’s recording a meeting in which Israel makes deal to sell nuclear weapons to apartheid regime. The documents were the first official evidence of Israel’s possession of nuclear weapons

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Transcripts of Kafr Qasem Massacre Trial Revealed: Palestinian ‘Fatalities Were Desirable’

[email protected] August 2, 2022 Adam Raz, Akevot, curfew, ethnic cleansing, expulsion, Issachar “Yiska” Shadmi, Kafr Qasem massacre, martial law, sinai campaign

Israel’s 1956 Sinai Campaign included the massacre of 50 residents of the Palestinian town of Kafr Qasem for violating a curfew that they had not been told about. Testimony indicates that Israeli soldiers were told to “leave a few dead in each village” in hopes they would frighten the rest of the residents to flee to Jordan.

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New evidence that planned US embassy in Jerusalem is on Palestinian private property

[email protected] July 14, 2022 absentee property law, adalah, Jerusalem, property rights, rashid khalidi, US Embassy

Archived State Dept & lease documents show US Embassy Plan would violate the private property rights of Palestinian landowners & the internationally established right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and gain restitution of their properties.

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WATCH: The Prison Remains the Same (Palestine)

[email protected] June 14, 2022 history, Khalil Nakhleh, The Prison Remains the Same

A brilliant explanation of the history, present, and possible future of Palestine by anthropologist Khalil Nakhleh, a Christian Palestinian from the Galilee who experienced Israel’s founding war and subsequent actions first-hand. Mixing current & archival footage, the film provides a powerful, unusual, and profoundly valuable viewpoint.

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No, the UN did not create Israel – its war of ethnic cleansing did it

Alison Weir June 9, 2022 Dean Acheson, James Forrestal, Loy Henderson, Nakba, partition plan, United Nations

The common representation of Israel’s birth is that the UN created Israel, that the world was in favor of this move, and that the US governmental establishment supported it. All these assumptions are demonstrably incorrect…

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How an Israel Lobby Group Infiltrated US Education

[email protected] May 27, 2022 ics, institute for curriculum services, Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, IRmep, JCRC, No Place for Hate, textbook accuracy, vchr, virginia coalition for human rights, whitewashing

The Institute for Curriculum Services claims to advocate for accuracy in K-12 instruction on Jewish history – but backed by the Israel lobby it whitewashes the history of indigenous Palestinians and Israeli theft of their land, and even attempts to delete the word “Palestine” from textbooks. ICS boasts that it has ‘improved public education’ in all 50 states and impacted 11 million students across the country.

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Ahmad Al-Manasra: A Palestinian Child Who Grew up Behind Israeli Bars

[email protected] April 13, 2022 AHMAD AL MANASRA, H.R. 2590, military court, no way to treat a child, police brutality, settler violence

Ahmad Al-Manasra has been in Israeli prison since age 13, and suffers from prison-related mental illness. A hearing to review the now 21-year-old Manasra’s case is being held today.

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From The Nation: In Every Corner of Palestine, There Is a Story of Dispossession

[email protected] March 30, 2022 colonialism, land day, masafer yatta, Mohammed El-Kurd, occupation, sheikh jarrah

March 30th is Land Day, an annual commemoration of those killed protesting Israeli theft of Palestinian lands 46 years ago. But even now, there is a Nakba everywhere you look.

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