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January 25, 2019       Share:    

Source: http://david-collier.com/hansard-palestine-israel/

Lessons about Israel from British Parliamentary Debates

(david-collier.com-UK) David Collier - Hansard, the record of British Parliamentary debates, with archives from the 1800s, turned up some astonishing results. Hansard records show that the identity "Palestinian" appeared for the first time in 1920 and at the time it was an identity only really accepted by Jews. Gaza is mentioned seven times in the 19th century, not once in the same speech as the word "Palestine." Whenever Gaza is referenced, it is always geographically tied to Egypt. The first ever use of the word "anti-Semitism" was by Winston Churchill on 22 August 1911, discussing an incident in Wales.

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