NOVANEWS
By Mahmoud El-Yousseph
Over the last several years, 1,700 members of the Jewish community in India, who trace their heritage to the so-called one of Israel’s lost tribes, were moved to Israel. More Indian Jews were to follow later after Israel reversed its policy of giving them VISAs, which will let the remaining 7,200 “Bnei Menashe” immigrate. This is by no means a pilgrim to Jerusalem or to have a look around then return back home.
This week, another 300 Jews from France arrived at Ben Gurion airport on July 24, 2018 to settle in Palestine. Under international law, Israeli settlements are considered illegal and an obstacle to peace because it is built on stolen or confiscated Palestinian lands.
Meanwhile, Israel continues under flimsy excuses to deny the right to millions of Palestinian refugees living in camps in neighboring Arab countries from returning back to their homes and property as demanded by so many UN Resolution to do so.
The resettlement of those Jews is done at the expense of the Palestinian refugees and is being facilitated by “Shavei Israel,” a nonprofit organization that seeks to connect “lost” and “hidden” Jews to Israel. So if that is what Shavei Israel calls “Aliya”, then by definition Aliya means recruiting Jews worldwide to support and maintain the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
Those “hidden” Jews are supposedly lost for more than 2,700 years. I can assure you that those Indian and French Jews have as much connection to the ancient Hebrews and to the land of Palestine as I do to Batman.
