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Christopher Mayhew was a pioneer in anti-Zionism in Britain. When he met Israeli Foreign Minister Golda Meir in 1963, Mayhew said she had a "colonial settler's mindset" eerily similar to that of British settlers in Africa. Meir related to Palestinians only as "drivers, gardeners and houseboys."
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Christopher Mayhew was a pioneer in anti-Zionism in Britain. When he met Israeli Foreign Minister Golda Meir in 1963, Mayhew said she had a "colonial settler's mindset" eerily similar to that of British settlers in Africa. Meir related to Palestinians as merely "drivers, gardeners, and houseboys."
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Christopher Mayhew was a pioneer in anti-Zionism in Britain. Upon visiting Israel in 1963, Mayhew remarked that Foreign Minister Golda Meir's attitude toward Palestinians had uncanny similarities to that of British settlers in Africa. She related to them solely as "drivers, gardeners and houseboys."
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