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Thursday, October 09, 2003
How crazy can the "Jews for Nothing get..?" read on:
US Jews renounce right of return to Israel
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Subject: [Kumah] Arab media is scared of Aliyah and is starting to go after it!
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 08:39:11 -0500 (EST)
US Jews renounce right of return to Israel
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=7247
100 San Francisco Jews protest Israel's refusal to extend same right to
Palestinians expelled from their land.
SAN FRANCISCO - About 100 San Francisco Jews renounced on Thursday their
right to immigrate to Israel to protest the country's refusal to extend
the same right to Palestinians expelled from their land.
Chanting "Palestine will be free," protesters handed in a petition to
the Jewish Community Federation in San Francisco declaring their
renunciation of Israeli citizenship rights, know as Aliyah.
The group, which included 30 marchers carrying a petition of 100 names,
called the act a ritual atonement in honor of the looming Jewish holy
day of Yom Kippur on October 5.
The protesters claim that Israel's offering automatic citizenship to
overseas Jews while denying the same right to Palestinians forced off
their homeland in Israel and the occupied territories amounted to
"apartheid."
"This is hypocritical," said Eric Romain, one of the protest's
organizers. "It is a betrayal of our legacy as Jews."
Aliyah, the automatic right for Jews around the world to immigrate to
Israel, was established in 1950 following the World War II Holocaust and
the establishment of the Israeli state in 1948.
But, the protestors said, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were
forced off their land and into refugee camps at that time and in
subsequent wars, the protestors said.
Since then most have been denied the right to return, and the issue has
long been a key sticking point in peace negotiations between Israel and
Palestinian officials.
The group claimed to represent the sentiments of a large portion of the
San Francisco area's estimated 225,000 Jews.
However, Sam Salkin, head of the Jewish Community Federation, a leading
San Francisco Jewish charity group, called the protestors "a small group
of fringy young people".
"I don't think they are representative of the Jewish community."
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ON THE OTHER HAND ...
KUMAH, which is Hebrew for ARISE, is an organization dedicated to encouraging
and facilitating mass Aliya to Israel by all Jews of the exile. Kumah believes
that the time is ripe for Neo-Zionism, a Biblical dream being realized today.
Through an array of projects, Kumah seeks to invigorate the Jews of the Diaspora
- particularly young people - with a new vision of Israel and innovative plans
for Aliya. We at Kumah believe that the reunification of the Jewish people
destiny of the Jewish people in Israel is the task set before our generation.
Let us rise up and go Home to Zion.
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