Student Cleared After University Investigation Into Israel Protest

Very typical zionist, no such thing as Palestinians.  When resolution called for the partition of Palestine and two thirds of the population were Palestinians on 87% of the land who do these old racists think they were?

Another disgraceful episode with the Zionist Lobby at back of it.

Do these people ever tell the truth, as to these sorts of antics?.

@MJoanneS, besides your agenda inspired claims regarding the origins of the Palestinians please give me some concrete references.

The Palestinians only exist today as a knee jerk reaction to Zionism and strong antipathy from their Muslim brethren. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for maintaining a struggle against the state of Israel for the sake of Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do Palestinian advocates tout the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that they posit the existence of a distinct “Palestinian people” to oppose Zionism.

Until the arrival of Zionist immigrants to Palestine in numbers at the turn of the 20th century there was no Palestinian identity, the people of the region choosing to identify with Syria. The genesis of the "Palestinian people' has been a reactionary, xenophobic response to developments that took place in Palestine during the British mandate.

@Rychard, instead of echoing this unjustified, baseless statement "The Palestinans are the people who were there for millennia" and giving me your usual tangential anti-semitic tripe about events that have occurred since the Palestinians invented their identity, please respond to the following facts:

Prior to partition, Palestinian Arabs did not view themselves as having a separate identity. When the First Congress of Muslim-Christian Associations met in Jerusalem in February 1919 to choose Palestinian representatives for the Paris Peace Conference, the following resolution was adopted:

We consider Palestine as part of Arab Syria, as it has never been separated from it at any time. We are connected with it by national, religious, linguistic, natural, economic and geographical bonds.

In 1937, a local Arab leader, Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, told the Peel Commission, which ultimately suggested the partition of Palestine: “There is no such country as Palestine! ‘Palestine’ is a term the Zionists invented! There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our country was for centuries part of Syria.” (refer Moshe Kohn, “The Arabs’ ‘Lie’ of the Land,” Jerusalem Post, October 18, 1991).

The representative of the Arab Higher Committee to the United Nations echoed this view in a statement to the General Assembly in May 1947, which said Palestine was part of the Province of Syria and the Arabs of Palestine did not comprise a separate political entity. A few years later, Ahmed Shuqeiri, later the chairman of the PLO, told the Security Council: “It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but southern Syria.” (Avner Yaniv, PLO, Jerusalem: Israel Universities Study Group of Middle Eastern Affairs, August 1974, p. 5.)

Palestinian Arab nationalism is largely a post-World War I phenomenon that did not become a significant political movement until after the 1967 Six-Day War.