[2] Upon entering graduate school at the University of Illinois in 1963, Greta met her first husband, Ribhi, who is a Palestinian refugee from Safed.

She believed that "Israel was driving the Palestinians off their land for the second time in 19 years" and vowed to increase American awareness of the issue.

She alleged that the Jewish Defense League phoned her and she described the caller as saying that "if any passengers were murdered in the airline hijackings that were going on at the time, my children would be killed."

"[18] Greta Berlin calls Israel an "illegal entity" and "a country founded on terrorism" and believes that Congress is "occupied by the Israeli lobby.

"[8] Berlin is the co-author and co-editor of the 2012 book, Freedom Sailors, The Maiden Voyage of the Free Gaza movement and How We Succeeded in Spite of Ourselves.

"[22] She said she merely intended to post the video and comment in a private Facebook group where she had been participating in a discussion of similar propaganda.

The statement explained that in this context Berlin's post was aimed at highlighting that "anti-Semitic remarks have exaggerated and distorted" the arguments of historians on this topic.