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The shocking history of racism in most of the British Left on Zionism and Palestine

How the left supported ethnic cleansingby Mike Marqusee30 November 2013″The Arab Revolt of 1936-39 coincided with the Spanish Civil War. But whereas all sections of the British left rallied to the Spanish Republican cause, the Palestinians were disregarded or condemned. Labour, virulently opposed to the Revolt, fully supported the government’s brutal counter-insurgency. Harold Laski dismissed…

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Israeli court jails Palestinians who defended themselves from Jewish perpetrator of massacre

  Palestinians condemn prison sentencesAl Jazeera 29 November 2013 Jamal Zahalka, a Palestinian member of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, called the sentences “an aggressive message to the Arab citizens of Israel. It is a message that says that the Arabs can’t defend themselves, that Arab blood is worthless. We don’t accept that and will…

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Hasbara in Dundee

Dundee recently witnessed a Zionist propagandist present a talk titled ‘Israel at eye-level, through the prism of a medical institution’. On the same day, a Palestinian prisoner was reported to have died of neglect in the very same institution. The story of Ha’emek hospital in Afula (1948 Palestine) was used as a narrative springboard to…

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