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  Myths & Facts - The Mandatory Period
In the mid-1920s, Jewish immigration to Palestine increased primarily because of anti-Jewish economic legislation in Poland and Washington’s imposition of restrictive quotas.
The British gave in further to Arab demands by announcing in the 1939 White Paper that an independent Arab state would be created within 10 years, and that Jewish immigration was to be limited to 75,000 for the next five years, after which it was to cease altogether.
One consequence of the violence was the institution of a temporary ban on Jewish immigration.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/myths/mf2.html   (3832 words)

  
 House of Rothschild - MSN Encarta
Members of the family all descended from a common ancestor, the German financier Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1743-1812).
Members of the family, which spread to the major financial capitals of Europe, have also been well known as art collectors, politicians, and leaders of the Jewish community.
Although he first studied for the rabbinate, he was apprenticed to a banking firm after his parents' death.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761576222/Rothschild_House_of.html   (562 words)

  
 Marxists Internet Archive Library, Complete Index of Writers
Member of the Independent Labour Party before joining the Communist Party in 1920, Dutt was a member of the Executive Committee of the CPGB from 1923 until 1965.
Political scientist, member of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia and member of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Serbia.
Member of the American Trotskyist movement, socialist feminist, was one of the first to challenge anthropological and other spurious justifications for patriarchy.
www.marxists.org /archive   (6587 words)

  
 British Forgeries of the Stamps and Banknotes of the Central Powers
The Belgium Parliament asked about the origin of the stamps and the Minister of Posts admitted that these were in fact official government-made forgeries for use against Germany.
Unlike WWII where the British prepared brilliant parodies showing SS Leader Heinrich Himmler or Polish Governor Hans Frank in place of the Fuehrer, or pictured the French collaborator Laval as Satan whispering into the ear of the French leader Petain, in WWI the stamps were rather plain.
In the neighboring colony of British East Africa, the British forged the notes in an attempt to destroy the economy of the German colony.
www.psywarrior.com /BritishForgeriesWWI.html   (4019 words)

  
 Christians and Zion: British stirrings
In the British perception of being an elect, these battles were understood in the context of Israel’s battles against the Philistines, Babylonians and others.
One of the influential British social reformers to be influenced by premillennial theology was Lord Shaftesbury, a conservative evangelical Christian who was intimately linked to leading members of the British Parliament.
British imperial designs were undoubtedly the primary political motivation in drawing influential British politicians to support the Zionist project.
www.informationclearinghouse.info /article4959.htm   (1048 words)

  
 Judaism and Jewish Apologetics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
El-Said supported the British and, as hatred of the British grew, he was forced from office in March 1940 by four senior army officers who advocated Iraq's independence from Britain.
Jewish government employees were fired from their jobs; Jewish merchants were denied import/export licenses; police began to arrest Jews for trivial reasons.
One of the first things Ben-Porat did was to approach el-Said and promise him financial incentives to have a law enacted that would lift the citizenship of Iraqi Jews.
www.preteristarchive.com /JewishSources/StudyArchive/th_jews-of-iraq.html   (7366 words)

  
 Jewish Graffiti - 'Arabs To The Gas Chambers'
Inspired by Jewish settlers' graffiti that included: "Arabs to the gas chambers"; "Arabs = an inferior race"; "Spill Arab blood"; and, of course, the ever so popular "Death to the Arabs," soldiers used a myriad of methods to make the lives of average Palestinians intolerable.
The haunting pictures of the victims were first shown on Arab satellite TV channels and eventually exposed on the internet.
Recognizing this prevailing cynicism, apathy and acquiescence among the majority of Israelis in the criminal oppression of the Palestinians, former Knesset member Shulamit Aloni pronounced in a recent interview with the Irish publication the Handstand that "gross insensitivity" was threatening a moral disintegration of Israeli society.
www.rense.com /general60/jewishgraffitiarabs.htm   (1380 words)

  
 Yitzhak Ben Zvi (1884 - 1963)
In 1919, Ben-Zvi was elected to the central committee of the Ahdut Ha'avodah party and a year later to the secretariat of the Histadrut - The General Federation of Labor in Eretz Yisrael.
With the establishment of the Va'ad Le'umi (National Committee) in 1920, he was elected to its leadership, first as a member, later as chairman (1931), and finally as president in 1945.
After the establishment of the State of Israel, Ben-Zvi was elected as a "Mapai" (Labor) member to the first and second Knesset (parliament), in 1949 and 1952.
www.jafi.org.il /education/100/people/bios/benzvi.html   (502 words)

  
 Mission to Palestine
The British side included as the English chairman, Sir John Singleton, a former Conservative member in the 1924 Parliament and a judge of the High Court known for his judicial impartiality.
The Jewish witnesses testified to the committee that the European Jews should be permitted to emigrate to Western countries.
The committee members saw and heard for themselves what it meant to be the isolated survivor of a family deported to a German concentration camp, working as a slave laborer.
www.jewishmag.co.il /101mag/palestinemission/palestinemission.htm   (3565 words)

  
 1400 - 1962
First Ottoman parliament convened in Constantinople and the first Palestinian deputies from Jerusalem elected.
Keren Keyemeth (Jewish National Fund) founded as land-acquisition organ of WZO with the function of acquiring land in Palestine to be inalienably Jewish with exclusively Jewish labour employed on it.
Tarab Abdul Hadi speaks in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and Matiel Mogannam in the Dome of the Rock mosque warning of the replacement oif Arab population of Palestine with Jewish immigrants.
www.passia.org /palestine_facts/chronology/14001962.htm   (3596 words)

  
 EJP | News | Eastern Europe | Charges against Prague Jewish leader dropped
Jelinek, who is a candidate in the upcoming 6 November Jewish community elections for its 25-member representative board, had charged that the criminal accusations against him filed by his opponents were politically motivated.
According to Jakub Roth, vice president of the Prague Jewish community's current leadership, Jelinek hastily withdrew cash from the community's funds after he was dismissed as chairman last autumn.
The agency was allegedly headed by a former member of the Czechoslovak Secret Police, which raised the ire of Jelinek's opponents.
ejpress.org /article/3782   (438 words)

  
 The Jewish Global Village: Unique Jewish Communities Series
About 50 members of Lisbon’s Jewish community estimated to number around 1,000 gathered at dusk for the re-enactment of Manuel’s edict next to the Maria II National Theater, which was built on the site of an old Inquisition court.
The Jewish community was able to maintain places of worship, a cemetery and a chevra kadisha (burial society) and could slaughter animals in accordance to Jewish law, register births, deaths, and marriages and collect charity.
Her strong Jewish background is the driving force that guides her spirit in energizing the reviving Jewish community of Portugal.
www.jewishpress.com /page.do/20253/Jewish_Arts.html   (1600 words)

  
 The History of the House of Rothschild - Looking Glass News
When news came through that the British had actually won the war, the consuls went up to a level even higher than before the war ended leaving Nathan Mayer Rothschild with a return of approximately 20 to 1 on his investment.
They then declare Israel to be a sovereign Jewish state in Palestine and within half an hour President Truman declared the United States to be the first foreign nation to recognise it.
….The Jewish members of the conspiracy have used an organisation called The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as an instrument to try and convince everyone that any mention of the Rothschilds and their allies is an attack on all Jews.
www.lookingglassnews.org /viewcommentary.php?storyid=121   (6331 words)

  
 Home (From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jewish Life in America, A Library of Congress Exhibition)
Riegner's alarming report was cabled to Jewish leader Rabbi Stephen Wise by Samuel Sidney Silverman, a member of the British Parliament.
The Jewish immigrants who arrived in massive waves from Eastern Europe beginning in the early 1880s brought with them the ideas of "Hibbat Zion" (Love of Zion), a movement whose principal aim was the return of the Jewish people to their ancient homeland.
With the emergence of Jewish feminism in the 1970s, new ceremonies and rituals were introduced in the synagogue and home, including such innovations as baby-naming ceremonies, Rosh Hodesh (new month) celebrations, and feminist Passover seders.
www.loc.gov /exhibits/haventohome/haven-home.html   (6505 words)

  
 UMass Amherst: Office of Jewish Affairs - Historical Timeline for Palestine/Israel
1882-1902: First Aliyah/wave of Jewish immigrants to Palestine.
The president is elected by simple majority, and the 88 members of the Parliament, known as the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), are elected by district.
Yasser Arafat is sworn in as the first elected President of Palestine on February 12.
www.umass.edu /jewish/programs/land_05/timeline   (1304 words)

  
 Crash Course in Jewish History Part 53 - The Enlightenment
The new ideology that emerged in the post-Renaissance period -- as a result of what came to be known as the Enlightenment -- is an ideology that still permeates the Western world to a large extent.
What that means is that people like Baron Lionel Rothschild - one of the most prominent and richest Jews in England - could not take a seat in the British Parliament after his election in 1847 because he refused to take an oath on the Christian Bible.
Benjamin Disraeli, who was twice the Prime Minister of England during the reign of Queen Victoria, was able to achieve that position because his family converted to the Church of England.
www.aish.com /literacy/jewishhistory/Crash_Course_in_Jewish_History_Part_53_-_The_Enlightenment.asp   (3038 words)

  
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's first Muslim cabinet minister was sworn in by parliament on Monday after a weeks-long battle over his nomination that drew fire from far-right parties as well as Arab lawmakers.
Magadla was nominated by the Labour Party for a ministerial post after one of its members quit the cabinet in protest at the addition of the ultranationalist Yisrael Beitenu faction to Olmert's coalition government in October.
In 2001, an Israeli Druze became the first non-Jewish member of the cabinet, serving as a minister without portfolio.
today.reuters.com /news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyid=2007-01-29T200908Z_01_L2943950_RTRUKOC_0_US-ISRAEL-MINISTER.xml&src=rss   (467 words)

  
 The Right Honourable Jack Straw, British Foreign Secretary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The first and the most fundamental of them is that the great alliance between the democracies of America and Europe is more vital than ever it has been.
First, there can be no purely military solution to a dispute of this kind.
It was to deal with these gaps that Tony Blair in October of 1998 first proposed a European Security and Defense Policy built on a new relationship between the European Union and NATO as the twin foundations of European security and of European prosperity.
www.brook.edu /comm/transcripts/20020508.htm   (8940 words)

  
 The Jewish Week   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The story beneath tells of an international Jewish conference in which American participants felt “battered and bruised” as a result of Israeli assertions that Jews who remain in the diaspora betray Zionism.
This was not, of course, the first time Israeli leaders had offended their diaspora supporters.
In Israel’s earliest years, a non-Jewish British parliament member and Zionist supporter, Richard Crossman, quoted a young Israeli as saying, “We are not Jews any more.
www.thejewishweek.com /top/editletcontent.php3?artid=5184&print=yes   (825 words)

  
 EPIC Archive - Free Speech
The First Amendment protection available to broadcast media is the most limited because "of the uniquely pervasive presence that medium of expression occupies in the lives of our people.
In the first appellate decision to address the issue, a New Jersey appeals court established stringent procedural and evidentiary standards that must be met before the identity of an anonymous online poster can be disclosed through litigation.
Established to promote and defend the first amendment; to foster libraries and institutions wherein every individual's First Amendment freedoms are fulfilled; and to support the right of libraries to include in their collections and make available any work which they may legally acquire.
www.epic.org /free_speech   (5051 words)

  
 World Jewish Congress
Lord Janner of Braunstone, a Member of the British House of Lords, convened the Jerusalem conference and will continue to serve as one of the members of the ICJP executive.
The ICJP is a newly established global forum of Jewish parliamentarians and legislators which convened officially for the first time this week in Jerusalem.
Rabbi Israel Singer, chairman of the World Jewish Congress who was with the lawmakers at the hospital, recited a prayer for Sharon's health.
www.worldjewishcongress.org /media_live.html   (1047 words)

  
 British Empire
The story is about the author's grandparents, Jewish immigration to London and assimilation among British Jews in the first half of the twentieth century and about his visit to the family homes in Poland and Galicia.
The first British census was in 1841 though some of this census was lost in 1851.
British censuses from 1861 to 1901 are now available, indexed, from a commercial source.
www.jewishwebindex.com /britishempire.htm   (4309 words)

  
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Also decided at this conference is the confirmation of Israel as a Jewish homeland, with the control of Palestine being given to Britain (Britain rules Palestine, and the Rothschilds rule Britain) whilst this handover takes place.
They therefore gathered groups of Jewish spies and sent them into Russia to drum up a revolution for the benefit of the common man, which was actually a takeover of Russia by a Rothschild controlled satanic elite.
These Jewish spies were given Russian names, for example Trotsky was a member of the first group and his original name was Bronstein.
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 The Speakers
She is also a Trustee of British Muslims for Secular Democracy, a foundation set up by British Muslims who support a clear separation between religion and State, and New Generation Network, an organisation seeking a new approach to tackle discrimination and prejudice in Britain by encouraging the under-represented to speak out against misinformation and scaremongering.
He was a member of the Labour Party before being expelled in 2003 in the wake of his outspoken comments on the Iraq war.
He was an active member in the Cedar Revolution, both in street participation and at the leadership level, and an active supporter of voting rights for Lebanese abroad in 2005.
www.thedohadebates.com /output/page78.asp   (4917 words)

  
 Maccabi USA: History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
You were the first to bring about a fundamental change in the spirit of the nation – you have inspired the Jewish people to protect its honor and its very existence.
The order “Member of the British Empire” (M.B.E) is bestowed on Lou Rose of Australia in recognition of his dedication to the encouragement of Jewish sport in Australia.
The first American pre-camp is held by the Americans in an effort to form lasting bonds between the athletes and the state of Israel.
www.maccabiusa.com /history.htm   (4036 words)

  
 1858 - dKosopedia
Britain and France defeat Qing Dynasty China in war to defend Western Civilization and free trade in addictive drugs.
Lionel de Rothschild becomes the first Jewish Member of the British Parliament.
Geronimo returns from a trading expedition in Mexico to discover that his wife, mother and three young children had been murdered by Mexican troops.
www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/1858   (76 words)

  
 Reform Judaism and the relationship to Deism.
While a reform Jew will accept somebody as Jewish who has a Jewish father, went to Hebrew school, had a bar mitzvah and was raised as a Jew, an orthodox Jew will not.
Benjamin Disraeli, who was twice the Prime Minister of England during the reign of Queen Victoria, was able to achieve that position because his family converted to the Church of England.
It should be noted as of this morning (August 6, 2002) CNN reported that two Jewish children were wounded and their parents murdered in Israel while the report that followed details eight more innocent Hindus murdered in Kashmir by Islamic terrorists.
www.sullivan-county.com /id2/judaism.htm   (6461 words)

  
 Wikipedia censors Bilderberg's Nazi roots - also @ bilderberg-mirror.org.uk & [need mirrors please] - The High ...
The British American Project for the Successor generation - little-known elitist grouping - said to have close connections to British Intelligence agencies, the military, politics and the media
Since the English nation has been responsible for such despicable genocide in many parts of the world, culminating in the biggest colonial empire the world has ever seen, it is an appropriate place to be looking for positive visions.
Google began (first time I noticed was August 2002) to remove much of my content, web published for over 5 years now, from their indexes.
www.bilderberg.org   (6116 words)

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