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.”
I had to already remove a comment for this.
No matter what you think of Israel today- Many Holocaust survivors went to Israel after it was formed.
They were not all terrorists.
Many of them didn’t know where else to go considering they saw a world that wanted them dead and almost succeeded (it was far from just the Nazis that were openly antisemitic before the war).
Was Israel the right place to go? No it wasn’t. Did Israel do good things afterward? No it did not.
But calling people who survived a genocide and went to the one place they could think where people wouldn’t try to put them back in a camp terrorists is fucking disgusting.
Edit: Hey you downvoting cowards, tell me about how these people were terrorists. I want specific details:
These authors:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Aran
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gad_Beck
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Blatt
This Nobel Prize winner:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kahneman
Oh, and also…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Westheimer
Do tell me about Dr. Ruth’s terrorist activities. What exactly did she do?
She was likely referring to the Israeli government which was formed by terror groups such as Lehi and Stern gang
As Kahneman was born in 1934 his parents colonized Palestine before the Holocaust. So he has a high likelyhood to be the son of a terrorist.
The IDF was founded from three terrorist militias. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idf
The leading one Haganah murdered 267 mostly Jewish people, bombing an Ocean liner in 1940 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haganah#Bombing_of_the_SS_Patria_in_Haifa
Another comment already mentioned the King David Hotel bombing in 1946 by Irgun, murdering 91 people, including many British. Cynically Israel loves to “accommodate” British officials in the Hotel, when they visit.
Elizabeth II grew up and became a young adult, when Zionist terror swept through Palestine, while it was still under British “mandate”.
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Look up King David Hotel bombing
Pot, kettle liz.
No kidding. If we’re judging people by the actions of their ancestors this woman has a lot to answer for.
Wait, the old white hereditary monarch whose country colonised huge parts of the world is racist? I’m shocked I tell you, shocked!
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.
