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I've seen this image on Facebook, often these image macros are just made up, or misattributed quotes, what about in this case?

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#Free Palestine

The Zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history... not even in their own religion. - Malcom X

It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists (Jews) do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews - Albert Einstein

We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians. - Nelson Mandela

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the the Arabs. - Mahatma Ghandi

quotes about notable people speaking to palestine

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    It's worth noting that Malcolm X later supported Israel (The Autobiography of Malcolm X) and that Nelson Mandela praised Zionism and always supported a 2 state solution, stating that Palestine and Israel both had the right to exist and to self-determination.
    – Steve
    Apr 8, 2017 at 21:17

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MALCOLM X

In short the zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history.

Status: correct. This quote is extracted from "ZIONIST LOGIC By Malcolm X Shabazz".(1)



ALBERT EINSTEIN

It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews.

Status: incorrect. There is no recorded evidence that Einstein said this sentence - without forgetting also that Einstein was a Cultural Zionist who supported the idea of a Jewish homeland (4) and he actually got an offer to be the president of Israel in 1952. (5) .

Skepticaesoterica's opinion,

The motivation for this fake quote should be apparent. It would be beneficial to pro-Palestinian activists to show that a paragon of wisdom, and a Jew himself no less, was also pro-Palestinian and/or anti-Israel.



NELSON MANDELA

We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.

Status: correct. Extracted from Mandela's speech at the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People(2).

Full quote:

When in 1977, the United Nations passed the resolution inaugurating the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people, it was asserting the recognition that injustice and gross human rights violations were being perpetrated in Palestine. In the same period, the UN took a strong stand against apartheid; and over the years, an international consensus was built, which helped to bring an end to this iniquitous system. But we know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians; without the resolution of conflicts in East Timor, the Sudan and other parts of the world.



MAHATMA GANDHI

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and in-human to impose the Jews on the Arabs.

Status: correct. (3)




(1) ZIONIST LOGIC By Malcolm X Shabazz (Edited and Reprinted From The Egyptian Gazette - Sept. 17, 1964)

(2) Address at The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People Nelson Mandela. 4 December 1997.

(3) Gandhi's Collected Works, Vol 74 (1938)

(4) Stachel, John (2001-12-10). Einstein from 'B' to 'Z'. Birkhäuser Boston. p. 70. ISBN 0-8176-4143-2.

(5) "ISRAEL: Einstein Declines". Time magazine. 1 December 1952. Retrieved 31 March 2010.

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    Regarding Einstein, it is not sure whether he was a "huge" supporter of Zionism: dissidentvoice.org/2010/01/einstein-on-palestine-and-zionism
    – dashohoxha
    Jul 25, 2014 at 9:58
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    @georgechalhoub Actually, I think it is plausible that Einstein said something along those lines: Letter to the New York Times 1948 - signed by Albert Einstein Jul 25, 2014 at 19:00
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    Gandhi was talking with a quite different historical context as background, some time before the holocaust. He surely meant: Palestine does not belong to the English. Jul 26, 2014 at 8:29
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    Malcom X was (by that point) a Sunni Muslim. Are we supposed to be surprised that he spoke out against an Israeli state? Jul 26, 2014 at 13:53
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    The fact that he supported a homeland for jews does not make him a supporter of oppression of Arabs. You don't say there's no source - you actively are trying to persuade the reader into believing Einstein would not agree with the sentence. That is disgusting. Simply state 'No, there is no source for his quote. He was a pacifist and wrote a letter in the NYT condemning nationalist Israeli party members. However, he was supportive of an Israeli state.' and you'd have my upvote for a well-researched answer, instead of my contempt for misrepresenting one of the greatest men in history.
    – Spork
    Aug 14, 2014 at 15:31

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