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Re: Palestinian university students’ trip to Auschwitz causes uproar

Posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Apr 14 17:00:15 2014, in response to Re: Palestinian university students’ trip to Auschwitz causes uproar, posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Mon Apr 14 16:24:03 2014.

This was my first trip to Palestine-most westerners call it Israel…the Israeli government was formed in 1948 as part of a vision set forth by a secular European colonial political movement called Zionism, founded by Hungarian Theodor Herzl in 1896. Herzl, an atheist, sought to free the Jews from European oppression and anti-Semitism, with the ultimate goal being the creation of a Jewish state. He first proposed East Africa's Uganda as the location of the Jewish state [this is entirely false, Uganda was proposed by others and rejected by Herzl]. This proposal also found the approval of the British government which controlled Palestine since the First World War. Herzl, however, later identified Palestine as the country of choice. I knew this.