Learn about the history of the Palestinian struggle for freedom, equality and justice by exploring major events in the history of their oppression on this day of the year.
25 April
SAN REMO: AGREEMENT ON WHITE SUPREMACY AND ZIONISM
On this day in 1920, the Supreme Council of the San Remo Peace Conference, one of several where the victorious WWI powers divided up the spoils, assigned Palestine to Britain with a provision to implement the Balfour Declaration. The views of the Palestinian majority were ignored. The preceding session in Paris had rejected the notion of racial equality. Australia and the USA, Britain acquiescing, defeated a Japanese proposal for a clause in the agreements on equality of races.
سان ريمو: اتفاق على استعلاء الجنس الأبيض والصهيونية
25 أبريل
في مثل هذا اليوم من عام 1920 ، قام المجلس الأعلى لمؤتمر سان ريمو للسلام ، وهو واحد من عدة مؤتمرات حيث قامت قوى الحرب العالمية الأولى المنتصرة ، بتقسيم الغنائم ، وخصصت فلسطين لبريطانيا بشرط تنفيذ وعد بلفور. تم تجاهل آراء الأغلبية الفلسطينية. كانت الجلسة السابقة في باريس قد رفضت فكرة المساواة العرقية، حيث هزمت أستراليا والولايات المتحدة الأمريكية اقتراحًا يابانيًا للتاكيدعلى بند المساواة بين الأعراق في الاتفاقيات ، وأذعنت بريطانيا،.
Britain supported the White Australia policy, which remained in force until 1973, and refused to agree to an Imperial Japanese request to extend racial equality to the victors of WWI.
The "prejudices" of inferior races had no claim to consideration by the rulers of the British Empire, the greatest of a supposed "White race". The author of the notorious Balfour Declaration wrote to Lord Curzon:
For in Palestine we do not propose even to go through the form of consulting the wishes of the present inhabitants of the country...The four Great Powers are committed to Zionism. And Zionism, be it right or wrong, good or bad, is rooted in age-long traditions, in present needs, in future hopes, of far profounder import than the desires and prejudices of the 700,000 Arabs who now inhabit that ancient land.