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agentfascinateur · 2 months

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A reminder about Palestine:

Firstly, the existence of the country of Palestine was never in question. And secondly, as per the UK's own words in the oft-referred to "foundational" "Balfour Declaration":

"NOTHING SHALL BE DONE WHICH MAY PREJUDICE THE CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS RIGHTS OF EXISTING NON-JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN PALESTINE."

Plain as day.

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taviamoth · 2 months

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Palestine Action activists destroyed a 1914 painting of Arthur James Balfour, the colonial administrator and signatory of the Balfour Declaration.

Palestine Action stated, "An activist slashed the homage and sprayed the artwork with red paint, symbolising the bloodshed of the Palestinian people since the Balfour Declaration was issued in 1917. "

"Arthur Balfour, then UK Foreign secretary, issued a declaration which promised to build “a national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine, where the majority of the indigenous population were not Jewish. He gave away the Palestinians homeland — a land that wasn’t his to give away."

"After the Declaration, until 1948, the British burnt down indigenous villages to prepare the way; with this came arbitrary killings, arrests, torture, sexual violence including rape against women and men, the use of human shields and the introduction of home demolitions as collective punishment to repress Palestinian resistance."

"The British were initiating the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, fulfilling the Zionist aim to build their ‘home’ over the top of what were Palestinian communities, towns, villages, farms and ancestral land, rich in heritage, culture and ancient archeological history."

"In the past 154 days of genocide in Gaza, Israel has killed over 30,000 Palestinians, injured over 72,000 and displaced over 1.9million — 80% of the Gaza population."

"Britain’s support for the continued colonisation of Palestine hasn’t wavered since 1917.

"Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest arms supplier, who use captive Palestinians in Gaza as a human laboratory to develop their weapons, use Britain as a manufacturing outpost. The Israeli weapons maker build weaponry in factories across the country and work closely with the British government.

"Palestine Action vows to continue their direct campaign until Elbit is shut down and British complicity with the colonisation of Palestine ends. "

#palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #israel #jerusalem #tel aviv #gaza strip #yemen #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #joe biden #benjamin netanyahu #britain #uk #arthur james balfour #balfour declaration #palestine action

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i-am-aprl · 2 months

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BREAKING: Palestine Action spray and slash a historic painting of ‘Lord’ Balfour in Trinity College, University of Cambridge.

Written in 1917, Balfour’s declaration began the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by promising the land away — which the British never had the right to do.

After the Declaration, until 1948, the British burnt down indigenous villages to prepare the way; with this came arbitrary killings, arrests, torture and sexual violence including rape.

The British paved the way for the Nakba and trained the Zionist militia to ethnically cleanse over 750,000 Palestinians, destroy over 500 villages and massacre many families.

The Nakba never stopped and the genocide today is rooted and supported by British complicity.

Now, Elbit Systems, Israel’s biggest weapons manufacturer use Britain as a manufacturing outpost to build arms which are “battle-tested” on Palestinians.

#Britain Is Guilty #israel #balfour declaration #gaza #balfour #free palestine #palestine #فلسطين #jerusalem #free gaza #i stand with palestine #israel is a terrorist state #israeli war crimes

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because--palestine · 2 months

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Again - as this doesn't seem to sink in yet - let's try to reformulate it concisely :

This conflict has got nothing to do with religion. Zionism itself has got nothing to do with religion, it's just another outdated nation state concept. It's all about ethnicity, racism and fascism.

Christian zionists are inherently antisemite. The Balfour declaration wasn't signed to create a "safe haven" for jews, it was signed because Britain wanted to get rid of the Jews. The Haavara Agreement few years later between nazi Germany and German jews is a telling proof that Christian zionists are actual antisemite. Hitler wanted to get rid of the European jews but as the migration plan didn't work effectively enough he proceeded to exterminate them. And that's exactly what Israel is doing to the Palestinians now. Israel couldn't steal all the land to extend its fascist ethnostate by just displacing the indigenous population, so it decided to annihilate them through a genocide.

Now to answer those who preach that Palestinians or Arabs are antisemite, first of all, through history, there have never been any noticeable hostility between Arabs and Mizrahi Jews. In fact they have always coexisted peacefully until the beginning of the establishment of the Zionist state in medatory Palestine. Hence, all that Palestinians ask for is equal rights with the Jews by ending the apartheid colonial regime that the zionist entity has been inflicting on them; as well as the right of return and compensation for their refugees since 1948, which is of course a demographic threat to the Jewish ethnostate which itself is obviously a grotesque unsustainable paradigm that will implode sooner or later.

#palestine #genocide #ethnic cleansing #zionism #Zionism is antisemitic #balfour declaration #Haavara Agreement #ethnostate #apartheid #gaza #endisraelsgenocide #racism #Fascism

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ymustutortureme · 4 months

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Britain justified giving part of Palestine to the Jews with anti-Semitic reasoning, because they thought that it would be a solution to the 'Jewish problem.'

The countries involved in the Balfour declaration, couldn't have cared less about where the Jews went, but they all knew they didn't want them in their own countries, so they sent them to Palestine under pretense of giving them a safe place.

#israel #palestine #free palestine #antisemitism #balfour declaration

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hussyknee · 5 months

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(cont'd in reblog.)

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reclaim-your-human-dignity · 6 months

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Today marks 106 years since Britain issued its colonial Balfour Declaration, which gave away the land of Palestinians to Zionist Jews, who wanted to establish a homeland for all the Jewish people of the world in Palestine.

This is where crimes against Palestinians started. Britain unlawfully gave away a land that it did not own!! It’s time for the UK government to take responsibility for the killing of hundreds of thousands of innocent people and depriving the people of Palestine from living in their own country in peace!

#balfour declaration #uk government #palestine #crimes against humanity #justice #peace #فلسطين #gaza #genocide #uk

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typicalbrainchaos · 2 months

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But Balfour's painting!

#gaza #free palestine #free gaza #palestine #gaza strip #gazaunderattack #fucking hell #save gaza #freepalastine🇵🇸#idf #balfour declaration #isreal crimes

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the-garbanzo-annex-jr · 7 months

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#israel #madatory palestine #ottoman empire #peel commission #white paper #balfour declaration #great britain #history #honest reporting

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news4dzhozhar · 1 month

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agentfascinateur · 2 months

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In 1919, the US Woodrow Wilson Administration King-Crane Commission advised: “a national home for the Jewish people” is not equivalent to making Palestine into a Jewish State; nor can the erection of such a Jewish State be accomplished without the gravest trespass upon the “civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine”

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elhieroglyph · 6 months

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The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British government in 1917 during the First World War announcing its support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine.

The statement was the product of Zionist advocates inside the government (including Balfour, Prime Minister David Lloyd George , and cabinet member Herbert Samuel ), and from outside; of paramount importance was the immensely energetic and persuasive Zionist spokesman Chaim Weizmann , who had longstanding close relationships with Balfour, Lloyd George, Winston Churchill , and other powerful figures of the political elite. From a strategic perspective, British officials hoped that taking a “favourable view” toward a Jewish national home in Palestine would garner Jewish support in the United States , Germany , and Russia , thus bolstering the war effort. They also sought to solidify postwar British claims to Palestine to shore up control over Egypt and the Suez Canal .

Shortly after the declaration was issued, British troops entered Palestine, capturing Jerusalem in December 1917. Occupation of the entire country was completed by October 1918, and military government was imposed. Preparations were immediately made to start implementing the Balfour Jewish National Home policy. Less than two years later (and before Britain was formally assigned the Mandate over Palestine), Sir Herbert Samuel, an avowed Zionist, became Palestine's first High Commissioner, and in August 1920 the first immigration ordinance was passed by the new Civilian Administration, opening Palestine to Jewish immigration. Source

#History #Zionism #Palestinian Genocide #Balfour Declaration #Ethnic Cleansing

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an-onyx-void · 22 days

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I'm 1 hour into "The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine" & my knee jerk reaction is "Oh, so it's the British's fault?"

#balfour declaration #british mandate

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voidami · 6 months

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**Today November 2nd, on the 106th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, actionists sprayed Britain's Foreign Office with the message 'BRITAIN IS GUILTY'. Others are currently occupying weapons firm Leonardo's London HQ!**

Written in 1917 by then UK foreign secretary, Lord Arthur Balfour, the Declaration signed away the land of Palestine to the Zionist colonial project - a land Britain never had the right to give away. After the declaration, until 1948, the British burnt down indigenous villages to prepare the way for the Nakba; with this came arbitrary killings, arrests, ||torture, sexual violence including rape against women and men||, the use of human shields and the introduction of home demolitions as collective punishment to repress Palestinian resistance.

The Nakba ('Great Catastrophe') saw British armed and trained Zionist militia forcibly displace over 750,000 Palestinians, destroy over 500 Palestinian villages, and massacre many families. The genocide underway right now in Gaza, which has already claimed the lives of over 8,500 Palestinians, would not be happening if not for Balfour and Britain's ongoing political and military support for the Zionist project.

Israel's F-35 fighter jets, are being used in its ongoing bombardment and massacre of Palestinians in Gaza, using 'high-energy military laser' targeting systems produced by Leonardo UK. Leonardo furthermore supplies Israel with Aermacchi M-346 aircraft and components for its Apache attack helicopters, which have also been deployed in the violent ethnic cleansing of Gaza.

The deep military-industrial ties between Britain and Israel show that the Balfour Declaration is not a historic document: instead, the Declaration is the first proof of Britain's commitment to the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. This is a commitment they continue to act on, arming the Israeli regime with the means to commit its genocide via Leonardo not least of all.

#balfour declaration #britain #palestine #apartheid #israel #genocide #gaza #settler colonialism #ethnic cleansing #free palestine #nakba #zionism #zionist

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foulwitchknight · 13 days

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#settler colony of israel #Zionism #colonialism #british mandate #balfour declaration #al nakba #israel apartheid #history #palestine #Youtube

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thetwistedrope · 2 months

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THE MOMENTOUS STATEMENT made just over a century ago on behalf of Britain’s cabinet on November 2, 1917, by the secretary of state for foreign affairs, Arthur James Balfour — what has come to be known as the Balfour Declaration — comprised a single sentence: His Majesty’s government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non - Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country. If before World War I many prescient Palestinians had begun to regard the Zionist movement as a threat, the Balfour Declaration introduced a new and fearsome element. In the soft, deceptive language of diplomacy, with its ambiguous phrase approving “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people,” the declaration effectively pledged Britain’s support for Theodor Herzl’s aims of Jewish statehood, sovereignty, and control of immigration in the whole of Palestine.

Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

#palestine #quotes #khalidi #israel #balfour declaration #history

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