British Jewish activists helped defeat a plan to twin the city of Preston with the West Bank city of Nablus. The Manchester Zionist Central Council and the Jewish Representative Council of Greater Manchester wrote to town counselors, asking if they “really wanted to play host to people who teach their children to hate Jews and Israelis, and whose religious leaders actively promote and encourage suicide bombers?”
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