Mamdani statement an effort to ‘hijack’ Oct. 7 anniversary, Danon tells JNS

 

“Mamdani could not even give us one day to mourn without defaming the Jewish people and giving cover to our enemies,” Inna Vernikov, a Jewish member of the New York City Council, told JNS. “We will not let Mamdani and his radical pals rewrite Oct. 7.”

Oct. 7, 2026 / JNS)

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is drawing widespread criticism after again accusing the Jewish state of “genocide” in a statement ostensibly about marking the third anniversary of the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, terror attacks, which was the bloodiest day for Jews since the Holocaust.

“This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of Oct. 7,” the mayor stated. “On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss.”

It wasn’t immediately clear why the mayor referred to “more than 1,100 victims,” when his predecessor, and many others, have said “more than 1,200.”

Mamdani, who campaigned on having the Israeli prime minister arrested and whose spokeswoman said that synagogues violate international law when they host pro-Israel events, is scheduled to attend a 7 p.m. “vigil in remembrance of Oct. 7,” followed by a 9 p.m. meeting with “Palestinian New Yorkers,” according to his official schedule.

His Oct. 7 statement appeared to blame Israel for being attacked by Hamas, a U.S.-designated terror organization since 1997.

“The suffering did not begin nor end that day,” Mamdani said of Oct. 7. “It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children.”

The mayor claimed that more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed “since the so-called ceasefire” and that the “suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing.”

The mayor, whose rhetoric leaders of major Jewish organizations have said endangers Jews, didn’t differentiate between civilians and Palestinian terrorists.

“Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them—all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes,” the mayor said. “Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment.”

Danny Danon, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, told JNS that Mamdani’s statement is like “turning Sept. 11 into a day of mourning for al-Qaeda terrorists” and “an attempt to hijack the anniversary of Oct. 7 and turn it into yet another propaganda attack against Israel.”

“We will not let this happen,” Danon told JNS. “We will remember those who were murdered, and we will never forget who was behind this massacre.”

Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and national director of the Anti-Defamation League, noted that the word “Jew” was absent from Mamdani’s statement.

“On Oct. 7, Hamas-led attackers murdered civilians, committed sexual violence, mutilated bodies and took hostages,” Greenblatt stated. “You are weaponizing a day meant for mourning the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust to recycle your usual anti-Zionist talking points.”

“The city with the largest Jewish population outside Israel deserves a mayor who can honor the dead without exploiting them,” he stated.

AIPAC stated that Mamdani’s remarks are a “disgraceful moral failure.”

“Weaponizing the anniversary of the mass murder and kidnapping of Israelis to amplify a modern blood libel against Israelis does nothing to promote peace,” the pro-Israel group stated. “It only fuels more violence and hate.”

Inna Vernikov, a Jewish Republican on the New York City Council, told JNS that “Mamdani gave the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust one sentence, then spent paragraphs falsely accusing Israel of genocide. Zero mention of terrorism.”

“Hamas raped women. Burned families alive. Dragged babies into tunnels and slaughtered them,” Vernikov said. “Mamdani buried all that and instead defames the very same people who stopped it.”

“Mamdani could not even give us one day to mourn without defaming the Jewish people and giving cover to our enemies,” she told JNS. “We will not let Mamdani and his radical pals rewrite Oct. 7.”

Evan R. Bernstein, CEO of B’nai B’rith International, stated that “as mayor of the city with the largest Jewish population outside Israel, Mamdani has a profound responsibility to recognize the weight this day carries for New York’s Jewish community.”

Instead, according to B’nai B’rith, the mayor issued a “disgraceful and extremely offensive statement marking the third anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks, in which he distorted and erased the experiences of the victims and the brutality Hamas inflicted upon them.”

Bernstein said that Mamdani “used his platform to promote inflammatory accusations against Israel while shifting the focus to deceptive accusations that Israel is committing genocide and apartheid.”

“That choice is particularly reckless in a city where anti-Jewish incidents have accounted for 52.9% of all confirmed hate crimes so far in 2026, though Jews make up roughly 10% of the city’s population,” he said. “More than 1,200 people were murdered on Oct. 7, 2023, including 49 Americans, and 251 were taken hostage, including 12 Americans. New Yorkers were among those murdered and abducted. Yet rather than remembering the people whose lives were destroyed by Hamas terrorists that day, Mamdani made accusations against Israel the focus of his message.”

Bernstein noted that Mamdani recently unveiled a city-wide strategy to combat Jew-hatred.

“A mayor cannot credibly claim to fight antisemitism and terrorism while using the anniversary of a terror attack to promote disinformation,” the B’nai B’rith leader said.

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a Republican, stated that it was “disgusting and shameful to use Oct. 7 as an excuse to repeat Hamas’s talking points.”

“The terrorist enemies that seek to destroy us will not prevail,” she stated. “We stand with the Jewish people, and we pray for the victims, their families and the survivors.”

The Republican Jewish Coalition stated that “on the three-year anniversary of the worst slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust, the mayor of New York chooses to spew Hamas propaganda.”

“Vile,” the RJC said, adding that the mayor “should be ashamed.”

The Israeli-American Council said that “for the Jewish and Israeli community, Oct. 7 is, first and foremost, a day of mourning, remembrance and trauma.”

“On the third anniversary of Hamas’s mass murder, mass rape, mass torture and mass hostage taking of over 1,200 Israelis, Mayor Mamdani chose, once again, to use the day to accuse Israel of ‘genocide,’” the IAC stated.

“That claim is demonstrably false. The IDF has taken extraordinary steps to minimize civilian casualties, far beyond what the law of armed conflict requires, while fighting an enemy that systematically hides beyond women and children and uses civilians as human shields,” it stated. “This is not a one-time lapse. Every year, on the anniversary of the day our community buries its dead, the mayor reaches for the same blood libel against the Jewish state.”

“Rhetoric like this doesn’t stay online,” it added. “It is exactly the kind of messaging that has fueled a documented rise in antisemitic incidents across New York City.”

Rabbi Marc Schneier, president of the New York City-based Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, stated that Mamdani “cannot give Jewish New Yorkers even a single day to mourn without gaslighting us and appropriating the trauma of Oct. 7.”

“He expresses sympathy at rising antisemitism while accusing Israel of deliberately killing children, bombing hospitals and committing ‘genocide,’” the Orthodox rabbi stated. “His rhetoric fuels hostility toward Jewish New Yorkers. Today, he could have honored the victims and promoted peace and prosperity for Israelis and Palestinians. Instead, he chose to incite hatred.”

The Jewish commentator and Daily Wire co-founder Ben Shapiro wrote that Mamdani issued “49 words in tribute to the Jews murdered on Oct. 7” and “141 words on how Israel is responsible for everything and the only answer is to hand more power, money and authority to those who wish to destroy Israel.”

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A Tribute to an Innovator of Spreading Yiddishkeit

 

Rabbi Yisroel Rubin on March 24, offering his thoughts about his Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson z”l, at the occasion commemorating the Rebbe’s birthday at the state Capitol complex. (Marc Gronich)

Rabbi Yisroel Eliezer Rubin ben R’ Moshe was niftar on Friday night, October 2, 2026 (21 Tishrei 5787). He passed away peacefully in his sleep just hours after participating in hakafos at Congregation Shomray Torah, commonly known as “the Shteeble,” in Albany.

Rabbi Rubin was born on May 9, 1948 (30 Nissan 5708) in Brooklyn, NY. He was raised in Montreal, Canada, where his father was a shochet u’bodek (ritual slaughterer and inspector). He graduated from the Merkaz HaYeshivos Tomchei Tmimim Lubavitch in Montreal in 1967 and received semicha in 1971.

The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, personally assigned Rabbi Rubin to Albany in 1974 as the shliach (emissary) for the northeast region.

“The Rebbe actually gave me a choice of three places: New Orleans; Indianapolis, Indiana; and Albany, New York. I chose Albany because it was more convenient to Montreal and Crown Heights,” Rabbi Rubin said on the television program The Jewish View in 2015.

On another episode of that program, taped in 2014, Rabbi Rubin recalled the Rebbe’s message to him before he headed to his posting in Albany in 1974 at age 26, as well as the difficulties the Albany Jewish community had in warming up to Rabbi Rubin’s brand of Judaism and spirituality.

“Every generation takes a toll, and so it’s so important to reach out to Jews where they are, even if it is not in the shul. We have to reach out, care for, and be concerned for every Jew on the street,” he said. He said the Rebbe taught his followers to make Judaism “available and accessible to Jews everywhere.”

There were several creative ways that Rabbi Rubin did this. It wasn’t always about asking Jews to put on tefillin. Food always hit the spot. “In those days, we started off with a kosher cart. We used to have a kosher hot dog stand at the Twin Towers (99 Washington Avenue) right up from the Capitol, and Jewish legislators used to come up and buy their kosher food,” Rabbi Rubin shared. “Then we opened up a kosher pizza and falafel store and The New York Times covered it. That was the first time Sheldon Silver, an assemblyman, was [shown] in The New York Times eating pizza – that was in this article,” he recalled.

Assemblyman David Weprin (D - Hollis, Queens) told The Jewish Press the rest of the story behind the hot dog cart and the pizza store. Weprin is a UAlbany (called SUNY Albany in the 1970s) graduate. He urged his roommate Carey Kessler to team up with Rabbi Rubin to sell hot dogs and later pizza.

“I helped them out also, but it was really more Carey Kessler who did that, and then, you know, it morphed into the pizza place, and the pizza place became like the only kosher restaurant in Albany,” Weprin said. “For example, when Shelly Silver was elected to the Assembly, he would basically eat in the pizza shop every night for a long time because there was no other place. That’s all due to Rabbi Rubin.”

The 1970s were tough times for Rabbi Rubin as he tried to get the ball rolling with the Chabad movement locally. “I can’t say it was all fun,” he said on The Jewish View. “There were difficult times as well. We had to struggle to be recognized, but now everybody knows that Chabad is a good service. It’s something very important for Jews today. When I first came here, organizations and synagogues were far stronger and more cohesive than they are today.”

Weprin noted that Rabbi Rubin “was probably one of the first shluchim before it became every city, every location in the country, around the world. He kind of predated that. Albany was one of the first Shabbos houses and the first real presence bringing[U1]  Yiddishkeit and Judaism closer to the people on the SUNY Albany campus.”

Upon his arrival, Rabbi Rubin quickly established himself as the regional director of Chabad of the Capital Region and Northeastern NY and as the visionary rosh yeshiva of Maimonides Hebrew Day School.

Rabbi Moshe Bomzer, a senior rabbi in the community and director of the Vaad HaKashruth of the Capital District, developed a special relationship with Rabbi Rubin.

“Rabbi Rubin’s brilliance manifested itself in bringing Congregation Beth Abraham-Jacob (CBAJ) and the Shteeble together for united Torah learning, sharing the Torah Times with CBAJ members, and having Rabbi Rubin’s children bringing Chabad to the synagogue,” Rabbi Bomzer told The Jewish Press. “Rabbi Rubin’s ‘inreach’ to New York state government and politics transcended party lines and always brought [everyone] to celebrate Tu b’Shvat, Purim, and Chanukah in the public square.”

“His pride and joy remain his school, Shabbos House, and the extended Chabad Houses within the Capital District,” Rabbi Bomzer continued. “I have lost a dear confidante, mentor, and friend, and his loss will be felt by all for many years to come.”

In a poignant tribute to his teacher, Rabbi Zalman Simon, director of the Bethlehem Chabad near Albany, reflected on Rabbi Rubin’s legacy.

“For more than five decades, Rabbi Rubin helped shape and build Jewish life throughout the region. He was a founder of Maimonides Hebrew Day School in 1980. He also stood at the helm of a growing network of Chabad centers throughout the Capital Region and Northeast New York,” Rabbi Simon wrote in a statement to the Albany Jewish community. “Known for his creativity, originality, and unique approach to Jewish education, Rabbi Rubin was constantly finding new ways to make Torah and mitzvos meaningful, relevant, and accessible. Learning and teaching Torah remained at the center of his life and shlichus, including throughout his recent illness.”

Rabbi Rubin was friends with Rabbi Shmuel Butman, z”l, director of the Lubavitch Youth Organization. Rabbi Butman’s son, Rabbi Velvl Butman, director of the Chabad of Westchester County, shared his remembrances of Rabbi Rubin with The Jewish Press..

From earlier this year, March 24, at the occasion commemorating the Rebbe’s birthday at the state Capitol complex, pictures from left to right are Rabbi Velvl Butman standing behind a framed picture of the Rebbe, Rabbi Yisroel Rubin and Rabbi Rubin’s aide, Eve Casper. (Marc Gronich)

“I have enormous respect and admiration for Rabbi Rubin. We have to remember [that he] came to the world of Jewish activism in the early 70s. It wasn’t as popular as it is today and there wasn’t modern technology to share ideas. Many of the things you had to do were done by yourself locally with your own creativity. He was incredibly gifted with creative thinking. He was original and his dedication was superb.

“I remember he was always involved in Jewish education. He was a visionary leader [in Jewish education] in every possible way. He cared for every Jewish child. It didn't make a difference to him if the child came from a wealthy home or a poor home, but he sincerely believed that every Jewish child deserves a Jewish education, regardless of their abilities.”

Rabbi Butman also referred to Rabbi Rubin as an “extraordinary scholar.”

“It was amazing and shocking to see how much he remembered on the spot. You can ask him questions in different areas and you’d be surprised what he was able to pull out of the hat from his memory and often in a very creative, entertaining way. He had this cute way of merging Torah, humor, modernity, and inspiration all into one mix,” Rabbi Butman said. “Rabbi Rubin knew exactly how creative he was. He used it when he needed to. He knew exactly where to stand firm on his principles and to make sure that Jewish education is not compromised. He was a very humble man...despite all of his talents and his wisdom and his scholarship. He didn’t carry himself as a pompous, arrogant person at all.”

That sentiment was echoed by his wife, Rochel – or Morah Rochel, as she is known in the local Hebrew school. “He was a humble man,” she told me at the funeral.

Students at Maimonides Hebrew Day School, family and friends bid a final farewell to Rabbi Yisroel Rubin. Anyone in attendance were asked to approach the hearse to ask for forgiveness as the coffin in case they did something they felt needed to be squared away with the Rosh Yeshiva. After stopping at the school, the hearse drove past Congregation Shomray Torah, his residence and then to the cemetery. The procession contained at least 20 vehicles. (Marc Gronich)

More than 150 members of the Orthodox Jewish community of Albany filled the cemetery grounds on Fuller Road near the Shabbos House Rabbi Rubin founded with his brother-in-law Moshe Chanowitz in the mid-1970s. His graveside funeral was without eulogies because it was Isru Chag, the day following the holiday of Simchat Torah. There are plans in the works for the Jewish community to have opportunities to remember, reflect upon, and appreciate Rabbi Rubin – his unique personality and style, his Torah, his creativity, and the many gifts he gave to our community and far beyond it.

Rabbi Rubin’s eldest son, Mendel, offered some words on behalf of the attendees to pay final respects to his father.

“Sukkot is a holiday season that my father loved tremendously. Simchas Torah was his holiday and it’s fitting because he had the simcha of the Torah. He really had a very big joy, a true joy in learning Torah. It was his passion. It was his love. It was the center of his life even during his illness,” Rabbi Mendel told the large crowd of attendees gathered among the cemetery tombstones.

Rabbi Rubin’s passing marked exactly 52 years since he began shepherding a community that had not previously been exposed to the Lubavitch movement. He arrived in Albany on Sukkot 1974, according to family members, and passed away during the last day of the weeklong harvest celebration, which appropriately emphasizes themes of gratitude, community, and Divine protection during the Israelites’ journey through the desert.

Rabbi Rubin is survived by 10 of his 11 children: R’ Mendel (Raizy) (director of Shabbos House, UAlbany); R’ Abba (Raizel) (Saratoga Springs Chabad); R’ Yossi (Leah) (Clifton Park Chabad, Saratoga County); R’ Shmuly (Laiky) (Union College Chabad, Schenectady); Devorah Leah (R’ Mendy) Mathless (University Heights Chabad, Albany); Rivky (Mendel) Cohen (Manchester, England); R’ Efraim (Menucha) (Crown Heights, Brooklyn); R’ Simmy (Chaya) (Albany); Mushky (Brooklyn); and R’ Mordechai (Chana) (Colonie Chai Jewish Center, Colonie, NY), as well as his grandchildren and great-grandchildren and his sisters Rochel (Hershel) Zaklos (Detroit), Esther (Moshe) Chanowitz (Montreal, Canada), and Sara (Yankel) Yuzevitz (Brooklyn). He was predeceased by his parents, Rabbi Moshe and Yocheved Miriam Rubin, as well as his daughter Esty Cohen of Manchester, England.

Governor Kathy Hochul wrote a brief, pithy statement recognizing the loss to the Jewish community.

“I extend my deepest condolences to the Rubin family and the Chabad Lubavitch community on the passing of Rabbi Israel Rubin. Rabbi Rubin leaves behind a tremendous legacy, serving as a Chabad emissary for the Capital Region for 52 years and playing an instrumental role in shaping the Capital Region’s Jewish community. May his memory forever be a blessing.”

There are so many stories and remembrances of Rabbi Rubin from Capital District residents and former residents, including this writer, who could write a book about Rabbi Rubin’s legacy and the gaping holes he leaves in so many hearts.

May his family be comforted by all the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem, and may his memory be for a blessing and his legacy continue to inspire us and the generations to come.

https://jewishpress.com/a-tribute-to-an-innovator-of-spreading-yiddishkeit/

Expelling Hostile Foreign Media

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/434077

Israel must expel hostile foreign media

Why on earth are we still allowing journalists from blatantly hostile, antisemitic networks to operate inside our borders?

Writing in Canada's National Post on October 3, Jesse Kline stripped away the polite fiction surrounding Western legacy media. "It has long been apparent that the CBC's coverage of the Middle East has had a clear anti-Israel bias," Klein observed. "But recent events hint at something much darker: an institutional willingness to downplay or minimize harms caused to Jews, including those living right here in Canada."

Klein's indictment exposes a systematic, malignant rot. We saw it laid bare when the CBC issued a cowardly directive forbidding its journalists from calling the Hamas monsters who slaughtered, raped, and decapitated Israelis on October 7 "terrorists." We saw it again in the media's disgraceful handling of the Natania Hospital case, where institutional reflexes consistently scrambled to minimize Jewish blood and twist the facts.

But while Kline correctly diagnoses the malice of legacy media operating safely from their comfortable Western bureaus, his observation forces us to confront a far more urgent, existential question for Israel's survival: Why on earth are we still allowing journalists from these blatantly hostile, antisemitic networks to operate inside our borders?

Israel took a necessary and correct step when it banned Al Jazeera- a state-sponsored bullhorn for terrorist propaganda. But it is flatly absurd to stop there. Outlets like Turkey's TRT World, a direct mouthpiece for an overtly antisemitic government, have no business operating here. The same hammer must fall on Western legacy giants like the CBC, the New York Times, and the BBC. These institutions do not practice journalism; they manufacture weaponized narratives that fuel global anti-Semitism and actively delegitimize the Jewish state.

Expelling these hostile organizations is not just justified - it is a national security imperative based on two undeniable realities.

First, reporting from Israel is a privilege, not an inherent right. Sovereignty means a nation has the absolute authority to decide who crosses its borders and who gets official state accreditation. For decades, Israel's Government Press Office ( GPO) has suffered from an elite inferiority complex, coddling hostile reporters and only delaying or revoking credentials in the most extreme domestic security cases. This pathetic policy of appeasement must end.

A news organization's behavior at its home headquarters--whether it peddles antisemitic tropes, launders terrorist talking points, or minimizes atrocities, must dictate its access to Israel. If an institution is fundamentally compromised in London, New York, or Toronto, it should be barred from Jerusalem.

Stop rewarding our enemies with front-row seats.

Second, information warfare is an active front in this multi-front war. Israel is fighting for its life against physical terrorists on its borders, but it is simultaneously fighting a war for its very legitimacy on the global stage. Outlets like the BBC and the New York Times routinely treat unverified data from genocidal terrorist groups as gospel, cook up grotesque false equivalencies, and print inflammatory headlines that directly spark violent antisemitic riots in Paris, London, and Toronto. By granting these activists press credentials, Israel is effectively hosting the scouts of an information army dedicated to its destruction. It is operational madness.

We cannot afford to be naive about history. During the Second World War, the New York Times intentionally and systematically buried news of the Holocaust, relegating the mass murder of Europe's Jews to back-page fragments to avoid drawing attention to Jewish suffering. Today, the modern press corps follows the exact same script. They minimize the genocidal ambitions of Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran while hyper-focusing on and demonizing Israel's right to self-defense.

For too long, Israel's decisionmakers have cowered in fear of a public relations backlash if they restrict foreign press access. This is a loser's strategy. The backlash exists no matter what we do.

It is time to stop subsidizing and hosting, our own defamation. Foreign media networks that traffic in antisemitic framing and minimize the slaughter of Jews must face real consequences. Their global coverage must be weaponized against them by the GPO. Their credentials must be revoked and their bureaus must be permanently shut down. In a war for survival, you do not let the enemy camp inside your gates.

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/434077

Christians Plant Millions of Israeli Flags in 14 Countries Ahead of Oct.7

 

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar (left) speaks with George Deek, special envoy to the Christian world (date unknown). Credit: Courtesy of Israel’s Foreign Ministry.

More than 1,000 Christian leaders and influencers from 117 countries arrived in Israel on Monday for the annual Friends of Zion Ambassador Summit.

(Oct. 6, 2026 / JNS)

More than 5.2 million Israeli flags are being planted worldwide to remember the victims of Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews said on Monday. The initiative also seeks to strengthen ties between Israel and Christian communities around the world.

The Flags of Fellowship campaign runs Oct. 2-11 and involves 4,375 churches, synagogues and other organizations, up from 1,300 last year, the NGO said.

More than 1,775 churches in 12 countries outside the United States and Canada are taking part, including in Australia, England, Kenya, South Africa, India and the United Arab Emirates.

George Deek, Israel’s special envoy to the Christian world, on Monday hailed the campaign as “a powerful reminder that friendship can speak louder than hatred.”

“To our Christian friends around the world: thank you for standing with Israel,” Deek wrote on X.

More than 1,000 Christian leaders and influencers from 117 countries arrived in Israel on Monday for the annual Friends of Zion Ambassador Summit, which is scheduled to run through Oct. 11.

The summit, founded by American Christian evangelist Mike Evans, is being held for the second consecutive year in cooperation with Israel’s Foreign Ministry, Friends of Zion said in a press release.

Some 300 of the participants are aged 18 to 29, the organization noted.

Evans said he wants young Christian leaders to “see Israel for themselves, hear directly from those whose lives were changed forever on October 7,” when Hamas terrorists invaded the Jewish state and murdered some 1,200 people.

“We are bringing together a new generation of leaders alongside experienced voices to bear witness, to remember and to strengthen the bonds between Israel and Christian communities around the world,” stated Evans.

At the summit, participants will hear from released hostages, survivors of the Oct. 7 massacre and bereaved families. During the week, they will meet Israeli President Isaac Herzog, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar and Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion, among other officials.

After the conference, participants are expected to serve as Friends of Zion ambassadors in their communities.

Deek said the event “carries a powerful message: Israel does not stand alone.”

“The bond between Israel and Christians around the world must be built on truth, courage and a shared determination to confront antisemitism and hatred wherever they appear,” he added.

https://www.jns.org/news/world/christians-plant-millions-of-israeli-flags-in-14-countries-ahead-of-oct-7

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