#balfourdeclaration — Public Fediverse posts
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No irony in Ed Miliband - he of the #FriendsOfIsraelLabourCabinet - telling Israel to get a grip. None at all.
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@[email protected] You're still a genocidal troll. #sigh
Many good reasons why Brits focus on crimes of Israel, e.g.:
1/ Britain started it, with 1917 #BalfourDeclaration
2/ Britain complicit in #Israel's crimes: arms, intelligence, tech, diplomacy
3/ UK close ties to israel, so Brit media keeps ppl well-informed
4/ Israeli crimes have continued for decades.The jew-haters are the scum like you who think genocide is OK when committed by #Jews.
I thought I'd blocked you. #Bye!
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I visited #CloudsHill in Dorset where T E Shaw (of Arabia) settled his PTSD down.
Interesting little place.The #BalfourDeclaration was made at a time of desperation and threat to the oil supply from the Middle East -plus ça change - and preceded much trouble, but FWIW it was definitely #conditional.
So, to read: Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
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"Zionist war criminal"
#UK #Churchil #Palestine #BalfourDeclaration #1922WhitePaper
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Nor has he spoken against the arrest & imprisonment of THOUSANDS of citizens PEACEFULLY opposing that genocide, and being tried as terrorists.
Remember that he is a “Labour Friend of Israel”, calls himself a “proud Zionist” and is in hock to the Israel Lobby, like the majority of senior Labour figures.
When he stood for the Labour leadership in 2015, he said that if he won the party leadership, then his first overseas visit would be to Israel.
He also praised the #BalfourDeclaration.
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🎥Video. Protesta en Madrid ante el 108 aniversario de la Declaración Balfour https://loquesomos.es/protesta-en-madrid-ante-el-108-aniversario-de-la-declaracion-balfour/ #FreePalestine #PalestinaLibre #BalfourDeclaration #JusticeForPalestine
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For the record #BalfourDeclaration #1917 #Palestine #journalism
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Quoting Odeh Bisharat, a Palestinian writer and social activist, currently op-ed columnist for Haaretz and Al-Atikhad newspapers:
[…] Europe slaughtered the Jews, and instead of paying for its crimes, it expelled those who remained. In the book Unrepentant (Hebrew title: Al Da’at atzmo) Nurit Gertz brings the words of Amos Kenan, who said: "The debt that the free world owes to the Jews, it easily threw onto the necks of the Arabs."
[…] At critical junctures, Israel's leadership chose the racist West. Even today, most Israelis prefer Donald #Trump, the racist, antisemitic with dictatorial tendencies.
[…] With all due respect to the “Jewish Genius”, the vast majority of the weapons that cause death and destruction in the region are American. It's time to say to the Americans: Enough, let us breathe.
Bisharat is discussing the historical context of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, focusing on the role of European antisemitism and the current reliance on American weaponry. Reflecting on the 1948 events in #Ramla, as depicted by Yoram Kaniuk in book title 1948 (Tasha"h), he argues that the displacement of Palestinians was influenced by Europe's desire to rid itself of Jewish populations following the #Holocaust. He contends that the Balfour Declaration itself stemmed from a similar racist sentiment.
This historical context, where Europe sought to solve its "Jewish problem" at the expense of Palestinians, continues to play out today, with the majority of weapons used by #Israel, contributing to the deaths of tens of thousands in #Gaza, being American-made. Bisharat urges the US to cease its involvement.
Herbew https://www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/2025-01-06/ty-article-opinion/.premium/00000194-3659-ddaf-adb7-7f79baa80000 or https://archive.is/UF5pT
@bookstodon
@israel
@palestine
#IsraelOccupation
#IsraelWarCrimes
#GazaGenocide
#Palestine
#Nakba
#BalfourDeclaration
#AmericanArms
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Quoting Odeh Bisharat, a Palestinian writer and social activist, currently op-ed columnist for Haaretz and Al-Atikhad newspapers:
[…] Europe slaughtered the Jews, and instead of paying for its crimes, it expelled those who remained. In the book Unrepentant (Hebrew title: Al Da’at atzmo) Nurit Gertz brings the words of Amos Kenan, who said: "The debt that the free world owes to the Jews, it easily threw onto the necks of the Arabs."
[…] At critical junctures, Israel's leadership chose the racist West. Even today, most Israelis prefer Donald #Trump, the racist, antisemitic with dictatorial tendencies.
[…] With all due respect to the “Jewish Genius”, the vast majority of the weapons that cause death and destruction in the region are American. It's time to say to the Americans: Enough, let us breathe.
Bisharat is discussing the historical context of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, focusing on the role of European antisemitism and the current reliance on American weaponry. Reflecting on the 1948 events in #Ramla, as depicted by Yoram Kaniuk in book title 1948 (Tasha"h), he argues that the displacement of Palestinians was influenced by Europe's desire to rid itself of Jewish populations following the #Holocaust. He contends that the Balfour Declaration itself stemmed from a similar racist sentiment.
This historical context, where Europe sought to solve its "Jewish problem" at the expense of Palestinians, continues to play out today, with the majority of weapons used by #Israel, contributing to the deaths of tens of thousands in #Gaza, being American-made. Bisharat urges the US to cease its involvement.
Herbew https://www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/2025-01-06/ty-article-opinion/.premium/00000194-3659-ddaf-adb7-7f79baa80000 or https://archive.is/UF5pT
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#IsraelOccupation
#IsraelWarCrimes
#GazaGenocide
#Palestine
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#BalfourDeclaration
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[followup] #UK / Palestine Action abduct two sculptures of Chaim Weizmann to mark Balfour day
[...] Arthur James Balfour, a known anti-semite, met leading Zionist, Chaim Weizmann, in Manchester, where they both then lived, in the first decade of the 20th century. Over several meetings, Weizmann who described Palestinians as “the rocks of Judea, obstacles that had to be cleared on a difficult path”, lobbied Balfour into assisting the Zionist colonisation of Palestine.
https://palestineaction.org/abduct-weizmann/
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#Palestine / Unpacking the Balfour Declaration
Many Israelis are mistaken in believing that the Balfour Declaration promised them either all of Palestine or all of Transjordan. As Edward Said noted, the Balfour Declaration created "the legal basis for Zionism's claim over Palestine," ans so marked the begining of the Zionist-Palestinian "conflict".
Any analysis of the Balfour Declaration must be situated within its problematic colonial context: a European power (#Britain) making unilateral decisions about territories and peoples under Ottoman rule, without consulting the local Palestinian population who constituted the majority of inhabitants.
Nevertheless, Shaul Arieli attempts to reexamine the precise contents of the Declaration, which remains historically relevant, particularly because it continues to influence contemporary political discourse.
The key facts show that:
The Declaration was itself a product of European colonial power dynamics, with Britain making promises about land it did not yet control.
The text carefully used the phrase "in Palestine" rather than promising all of Palestine, though this legal precision hardly mitigates the fundamental colonial presumption.
Even within its colonial framework, the Declaration did not promise:
All of Palestine to the Jewish national home
Exclusive political rights over the territory
Any specific boundaries
The entirety of Transjordan
The local Palestinian Arab majority, who would be directly affected by this policy, were not consulted about this fundamental decision affecting their homeland and future, reflecting the era's colonial disregard for indigenous populations' right to self-determination
Hebrew https://www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/2024-10-31/ty-article-opinion/.premium/00000192-e247-dd31-a9be-fb4f69990000 or https://archive.ph/rcpLa
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No to the Balfour Declaration, No to Genocide
De Dam, Amsterdam, zaterdag 2 november om 14:00 CEThttps://acties.todon.nl/event/no-to-the-balfour-declaration-no-to-genocide
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Why Britain could face demands to pay Palestinians reparations middleeasteye.net/features/why-b…
#news #WorldNews #UKnews #USnews #Palestine #MiddleEast #commonwealth #Britain #BalfourDeclaration #Reparations #carribean -
Israel’s roots in European colonialism explain its genocidal ideology
https://venera.social/display/85a863ed-8f678fa0-f8057440c2e91a6d
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"#PeterShambrook is an independent scholar and historical consultant to the #Balfour Project, which works to advance equal rights for all in #PalestineIsrael. He is the author of French Imperialism in Syria, 1927–1936, and his latest, #PolicyOfDeceit: #Britain and #Palestine, 1914-1939"
https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9rcGZhLm9yZy9wcm9ncmFtL2xldHRlcnMtYW5kLXBvbGl0aWNzL2ZlZWQv/episode/aHR0cHM6Ly9rcGZhLm9yZy8_cG9zdF90eXBlPWVwaXNvZGUmcD00MTg3Nzc?sa=X&ved=0CDAQz4EHahcKEwiArsiy4_6EAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQLA&hl=fr_CA
#BalfourDeclaration #Palestinians #OttomanPalestine #MandatePalestine #MiddleEast #MiddleEastHistory #BritishEmpire #imperialism #BritishImperialism #WWI #books -
Palestine Action slash painting of Lord Balfour
Palestine Action ruined a 1914 painting of Lord Arthur James Balfour - the colonial administrator and signatory of the Balfour Declaration.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/03/09/palestine-action-slash-painting-of-lord-balfour/
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Two actionists who defaced Balfour’s statue in the Houses of Parliament, will stand trial and fight to prove Britain is guilty, they are not!
Mobilise in support from 9.30AM on Monday 11th December at Southwark Crown Court, London, SE1 2HU.
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The consequences of the #BalfourDeclaration in a more familiar context: 100 Balfour Road.
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The #BalfourDeclaration which ignored the rights of the indigenous Palestinians started this whole conflict.
https://x.com/uptonsinclair34/status/1727036336291406201?s=61&t=BmujbgQ4Ws0dGJ8IQ1F8YQ
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The 2 state issue was because of #UK double dealing in 1916, where the #BalfourDeclaration promised a #Jewish home, but the #Arabs were also promised an #Islamic state in return for their support in fighting the Ottoman Empire in WWI.
When both Arabs & Jews came to cash their chips in, neither were satisfied with the British compromise, & here we are 108 years later still dealing with the ramifications of 1 country promising another country a 3rd country that neither owned! 🙄
