The world must hear the voices of both Christians and Jews to better understand the truth about Israel, a humane,
multi-cultural, peace-loving democracy.
Clarence B. Jones
Lawyer, former speech-writer for MLKing "Any attempt to link Israel to apartheid South Africa, and to appropriate the symbols and language of the anti-Apartheid struggle is shameful" .
Background :
from Nov. 1984 to Jan. 1985, some 6,500 Ethiopian Jews were flown into Israel, an airlift called Operation Moses.
William Safire
"For the first time in history thousands of black people were brought into a country not in chains, but in dignity, not as slaves, but as citizens."
Pastor Gerald Bell
Pastor, Strong Tower Church, Roxbury
"Blacks and Jews share a common legacy of suffering and survival, Israel's concerns should be our concerns."
