Former president Reuven Rivlin is quoted as saying that ties between Israel and the late Queen Elizabeth II were “difficult” because of her views on the Jewish state.

“The relationship between us and Queen Elizabeth was a little bit difficult because she believed that every one of us was either a terrorist or a son of a terrorist,” Rivlin told a gala event in London commemorating 100 years of Haifa’s Technion Institute of Technology, according to the British Jewish News.

“She refused to accept any Israeli official into [Buckingham] Palace, apart from international occasions,” he added, noting by way of comparison that King Charles III was always “so friendly.”

  • @Worx
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    321 hours ago

    Wait, the old white hereditary monarch whose country colonised huge parts of the world is racist? I’m shocked I tell you, shocked!

    • @[email protected]
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      119 hours ago

      Y’know, I’ve spent the past 15 months watching Israelis self post war crimes to insta and tok and the thought occurs to me, the IDF is a mandatory conscription service, so it’s not the sadistic malforms of their society gunning down grannies waving white flags, it’s the local bagel maker. It’s not someone fresh out of prison shooting surrendered in the back of the head and laughing it’s the coffee roaster. It’s not some maniac killing 4 premature babies, it’s the local craft candle maker.

      These are their average citizens? I don’t have a hat in the ring but I can tell you emphatically I will NEVER do business with an Israeli. The influence they have in our government is the exact shit the founding fathers were so concerned with. Enemies foreign and domestic. Keep your friends close, your enemies closer

      They’ve burnt their bridges. 70% of Americans under 30 see them negatively and want to cut ties. I won’t weep for them when they finally find out. They, the Israelis, our FRIENDS (?!?) fabricated evidence to draw us into Iraq in 2001 and with Trump back in office, id bet my balls the Saudis detonate a nuke before 2026. I don’t know what else the 2billion they gave Kuschner was for, since Trump had sold out our spy network before his first year was over.