Fawzeya Makhlouf-Norris was a name many didn't know, but her voice was one of the first to cut through the Western media blackout on the reality of 1967. She recently passed away at the age of 77, leaving behind a five-decade legacy of defending human rights from London.

Fawzeya was a clinical psychologist who had moved from Cairo to London in 1959. For over fifty years, she used her position to fight the battles most people were too afraid to touch. She wasn't just an activist; she was a bridge between the Arab world and the West, exposing the "racial state" mechanics of the occupation long before those terms were mainstream in London circles.

In June 1967, during the early days of the Six-Day War, ITN interviewed a young Egytian woman at a volunteer center in London. That woman was Fawzeya. While others were donating blood and preparing for the conflict, she was offering something just as vital. A forensic critique of the colonial project.

She argued that Israel was established as a racial state by Western powers and forced upon a region with a deeply shared history and culture. She pointed directly to the external financial support that sustained this project and called for its dissolution as a racial entity.

What is most striking about the footage is her clarity. Even in the heat of an invasion, she wasn't calling for destruction, but for a different kind of existence. She envisioned a Middle East where Christians, Muslims, and Jews could coexist and develop the region together, free from the racial hierarchies imposed from the outside.

The full film is available on the ITN Archive YouTube channel under the title 'Israeli Invasion of Gaza - Six Day War Documentary (1967)'. Watching it now feels like finding a lost piece of the truth.

Rest in power, Fawzeya.