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Sunday, August 9, 2009

Jewish Fatah delegate nominated to Revolutionary Council

Ma'an
A Jewish member of Fatah was nominated for a spot on the movement's Revolutionary Council on Saturday.

Vowing to step up lobbying efforts worldwide if elected, Dr Uri Davis [an Israeli] told Ma'an one of Fatah's weakest attributes has been its failure to establish ties with international parties, movements and human rights organizations...

... Davis was born in Jerusalem in 1943 eight years after his mother and father, Jewish immigrants from Czechoslovakia and Britain, respectively, arrived in Palestine in 1935. They were an early wave of Zionist immigrants who established homes in the area more than a decade before the state of Israel was founded...

... Inside Israel Davis works as a civil rights activist, and describes himself as an "anti-Zionist Palestinian Hebrew." ... Full story
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