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Jerusalem's New British-Born Deputy Mayor Targets "False Narrative" on Israel
(Independent-UK) Joe Wallen - Born in London and raised in Gibraltar, Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, 44, has been named as the new deputy mayor of Jerusalem. Her father, Sir Joshua Hassan, was the Chief Minister in Gibraltar for over 20 years. Hassan-Nahoum embraces the recent recognition given by Donald Trump when affirming Jerusalem as the capital of the Israeli state. "Absolutely, we welcomed it, even if it does nothing more than confirm a reality which already exists on the ground. Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, always has been." She says people around the world believe a "false narrative" propped up by the media of "a brutal genocidal Israeli apartheid rule." She insists it is in fact the Palestinians who "time and again, when they are at a crossroads of peace or war, have chosen the path of war. I will never understand how the liberal public in Europe have so blindly accepted the rhetoric from misogynist, homophobic and genocidal groups in Palestine without question."