Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Frances Emily Newton (November 4, 1871–June 11, 1955) was an English missionary who lived and worked in Palestine from 1889 until 1938, the last 18 years of which saw the country under British rule. She became Dame of Justice of the Venerable Order of Saint John in 1930, and was a member of the Palestine Women's Council, a consultative committee that advised the British, usually to no avail, on matters affecting women and children. The journalist Owen Tweedy described her as, \"comely but podgy—tall & masterful and with the hell of a temper and always having rows.\"She was a founding member and honorary secretary of the Palestine Information Centre, referred to by the British Arab News Bulletin as the \"first office to put the Arab view before the British public.\" Described by Norman Bentwich, the first Attorney-General of Mandatory Palestine, as \"incurably anti-Jewish ... and a principal supporter of the Arab cause,\" she also founded the Anglo-Arab Friendship Committee in 1946, with the aim of opposing Zionism.Living on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Newton became known as someone willing to document acts of violence against Arabs suspected of opposing British rule. She found herself in trouble in 1938 after publishing two pamphlets, Punitive Methods in Palestine, which accused the British of atrocities and was denounced in the House of Commons as \"all lies,\" and Searchlight on Palestine; Fair Play or Terrorist Methods, which supported the 1936–1939 Arab revolt. The British issued an exclusion order and she was deported in October 1938. When she died of a heart attack in 1955, a British official said she had, \"the exterior of an English woman and the mind of a Palestinian.\""@en }
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- Frances_E._Newton abstract "Frances Emily Newton (November 4, 1871–June 11, 1955) was an English missionary who lived and worked in Palestine from 1889 until 1938, the last 18 years of which saw the country under British rule. She became Dame of Justice of the Venerable Order of Saint John in 1930, and was a member of the Palestine Women's Council, a consultative committee that advised the British, usually to no avail, on matters affecting women and children. The journalist Owen Tweedy described her as, \"comely but podgy—tall & masterful and with the hell of a temper and always having rows.\"She was a founding member and honorary secretary of the Palestine Information Centre, referred to by the British Arab News Bulletin as the \"first office to put the Arab view before the British public.\" Described by Norman Bentwich, the first Attorney-General of Mandatory Palestine, as \"incurably anti-Jewish ... and a principal supporter of the Arab cause,\" she also founded the Anglo-Arab Friendship Committee in 1946, with the aim of opposing Zionism.Living on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Newton became known as someone willing to document acts of violence against Arabs suspected of opposing British rule. She found herself in trouble in 1938 after publishing two pamphlets, Punitive Methods in Palestine, which accused the British of atrocities and was denounced in the House of Commons as \"all lies,\" and Searchlight on Palestine; Fair Play or Terrorist Methods, which supported the 1936–1939 Arab revolt. The British issued an exclusion order and she was deported in October 1938. When she died of a heart attack in 1955, a British official said she had, \"the exterior of an English woman and the mind of a Palestinian.\"".