This will piss off the anti-Israel clowns...

Buckingham Palace announced Saturday that an Israeli professor is among the more than 1,000 people being presented an award by Queen Elizabeth as part of her Birthday Honours list.

Professor David Newman, Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, will receive the award for his promotion of the academic partnership between Britain and Israel. He has been a leading advocate of the academic partnership between the countries, and a key campaigner against the British academic boycott of Israel.

The awards presented by the Officer of the Order of the British Empire are given for a significant achievement or service in a major local role...

Queen Elizabeth, Bond Girl

Queen Elizabeth and Daniel Craig in a video made for the London Olympics opening ceremony

She's old, but she's not THAT old

A reader pointed out a slip up in a Royal Wedding story by our friends at The National Post

Queen Elizabeth II was crowned about 6 decades ago. They only multiplied it by a factor of 10, although time does seem to go by very slowly at formal events.

(hat tip to Doug for this)

UPDATE: I emailed my friends at The Nat Post about the error and they corrected it. Now my friends who got such a laugh at the error are mad at me!