Posted on 03/09/2013 1:20:37 PM PST by Olog-hai
Dozens of Palestinian protesting against British policy have tried to attack a senior British diplomat while on a visit to a university today.
The hostile demonstration forced the British consul general, Sir Vincent Fean, to cancel a speech at the Birzeit University near Ramallah.
He was not hurt, although one demonstrator was seen kicking him in the shins.
Student activists said they were protesting against decades of British policy supporting Israel over Palestinians. They said their chief grievance was over Britain’s support for a Jewish homeland in what was at the time still Palestine. …
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It was never at any time “Palestine” with any Palestinian “people”.British diplomat attacked by Palestinian protesters over century-old government policy supporting a Jewish homeland
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