NOTE: Terrific piece by a Jew from Libya and her personal experience with being driven out. She brilliantly calls out the antisemitic and false "Zionism Unsettled" booklet from the Presbyterian Church and offers her services for lectures and counter demonstrations.
The Israel-Palestine Mission Network of Presbyterian Church USA recently published “Zionism Unsettled”. What is “unsettling” about this publication is its lack of fact and truth
In 2001 under U.N. auspices, the infamous World Conference against Racism in Durban, South Africa attempted to delegitimize Jewish nationalism by equating Zionism with racism. Anti-Jewish and anti-Israel language prompted the U.S. and Israel to leave the U.N. Conference. The ugliness that resulted from this Orwellian misuse of language, to undermine the legitimate rights of the Jewish people to their homeland, is still with us today.
“Zionism Unsettled” was surely not intended to add fuel to the fires raging in the Middle East, but unfortunately its misrepresentation of Zionism does just that. My personal history, however, as well as the stories of the other 850,000 Mizrahi Jews, provides proof of the absolute necessity for a Jewish State.
Here is a quote from page 48 of Zionism Unsettled.
“Middle Eastern Jews, also called Mizrahi Jews, share a history of largely harmonious integration and acculturation in their host countries. Sadly, this model of coexistence was destabilized by the regional penetration of Zionism beginning in the late 19th century.”
I am a Jew from Libya and lived there until I was 19 years old. I know from firsthand experience that in 1945, before the establishment of Israel, Arabs in Libya called for the killing of the Jews.
On November 5, 1945, anti-Jewish riots broke out in Tripoli, Libya, with more than 140 Jews killed in and around the city over the course of three days. There were cases of Muslims offering help and shelter to Jews, but there were also reports of Jews finding their own neighbors among those who were attacking them. Many of the rioters shouted “jihad fil-kuffar” – “war against the infidels.” CONTINUE READING HERE
Read more: Zionism Unsettled: A response from an eyewitness | Gina Waldman | Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/zionism-unsettled-a-response-from-an-eyewitness/#ixzz2xkrlDoU8
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