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.