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We have updated our Indigenous Friends of Israel International website and we would love you to get involved. thanks to those from many nations who have become members and are getting involved. Follow our facebook, instagram, linkedin and/or youtube pages and join our whatsapp group. Find links here
Ps Enoch and Sarah Lavender are on a book tour of Qld with his new book “The Jubilee & End Times.” He is an excellent Bible teacher with a focus on Israel and was a key leader in Shalom Israel in Melbourne before moving to the Tweed Heads and itinerant ministry. He and Sarah will also share personally how the Lord has led them in their marriage and minister physical and emotional healing. Contact him on 0415452850 if you have a ministry opportunity for them.
Join us in Cairns 20 July 4-6pm to hear them share. Tabernacle of David 33 Lake St Cairns. Also it will be livestreamed to our church facebook page so tune in for the message about 4.45pm – https://www.facebook.com/cfirpTOD/
AUGUST 19 INDIGENOUS FRIENDS OF ISRAEL INTERNATIONAL ZOOM SEMINAR 7PM AEST
Speakers from left, Dr Sheree Trotter from NZ is Māori (Te Arawa). She earned her PhD in history from the University of Auckland (Thesis: Zionism in New Zealand to 1948). In 2012 she co-founded the Holocaust and Antisemitism Foundation for whom she has interviewed seventy Holocaust survivors. Sheree completed an Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy scholars-in-residence course at University of Oxford in 2023. She is the co-Director of the Indigenous Coalition for Israel and the Indigenous Embassy Jerusalem.
On the right is Dalia Ayalon Sinclair from Israel with her painting in a recent exhibition there. Her art is influenced by losing family in the Holocaust. She spends part of each year in Australia and organises a yearly conference to commemorate UN Resolution 181 passed in 1947 to divide the British mandate into 2 states one Jewish and one Arab. Norman and Barbara were privileged to speak at that event at the Central Synagogue last year. Dalia is a former SBS journalist who coordinated the Hebrew language program and reported positively on the Christian group Celebration Shalom as part of this.
Kelvin Crombie has just confirmed and is well known to most of you and has an exciting story to tell which will be included in our next newsletter. Photos below are of Kelvin with Norman and Barbara Miller in Cairns and Norman and Barbara in front of teepees at the Sacred Assembly gathering of First Nations people at Sagkeeng Manitoba Canada in 1997 at which they had an opportunity to share.
PRESS RELEASE INDIGENOUS FRIENDS OF ISRAEL INTERNATIONAL 18.7.24 – CALL FOR LIDIA THORPE TO RESIGN
“Poster girl for Hamas, Senator Lidia Thorpe, should resign. Her latest radical chic is a green Hamas-style headband in Arabic drawing attention to her ill-conceived support of their cause,” says Indigenous Friends of Israel International co-founders Norman and Barbara Miller.
“Outrage over her selfie wearing the headband on X led to her removing it yesterday less than 24 hours after posting it. Many complained about her ‘dressing up’ as a terrorist and that it was offensive and divisive, so she apologized saying she was pushing for a ceasefire.
Strangely, the Arabic script on her headband read ‘I love chocolate milk’ with the caption on her post ‘I wholeheartedly support this message. I hope you do too.’
Thorpe is pushing a narrative that the Jewish people are colonizers and occupiers of Israel ignoring the fact that it is their ancient homeland, and they are Indigenous to Israel with a 4,000 year history there.
Many nations invaded and colonized the land of the Jews over thousands of years. Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Greeks, Byzantines, Arabs, Crusaders, Mamelukes, Ottomans, and Britain to name some of them but there was always a Jewish presence in the land.
When Israel reformed as a modern nation in 1948, it was decolonizing the land which had been a British mandate under the League of Nations which became the United Nations. Australia presided over the vote admitting Israel to the United Nations in 1949.
Hamas is not pushing for a Palestinian state that would include Gaza and the West Bank (Judea and Samaria). It wants the whole of Israel as its maps show and it wants the destruction and removal of the only Jewish state in the world. It also wants the removal of all Jews from the Jewish homeland. This is genocidal and is in the Hamas charter.
About 800,000 Jews were traumatically made refugees from Arab lands in the Middle East in 1948 losing their homes, businesses, jobs, nationalities etc. So, it was not just the Jews of Europe who survived the Holocaust who made Israel home.
Thorpe’s misguided attempt to align the Blak Sovereign Movement with the Palestinian cause is flawed. The Palestinian people are not Indigenous to Israel.
The Jews have never invaded any land in all of history. They simply returned home, joining those who had never left.
Senator Thorpe spoke on Monday at a ‘free Palestine’ rally in Melbourne asserting that the violence in Gaza was like the attempted genocide of Indigenous Australians by European settlers.
There is no comparison here. Yes, Australia was colonized by British settlers and yes there was loss of life despite instructions otherwise by the British crown. Israel instead is defending itself against an invasion and massacre by Hamas on October 7 and trying to ensure that Hamas cannot keep its promise to keep repeating October 7. Also, the captives taken by Hamas in a war crime need to be freed.
It seems dressing up to make a point has form with Lidia Thorpe who arrived in a pro-Palestine dress at the mid-winter parliamentary ball earlier this month with the genocidal phrase ‘from the river to the sea’ embroidered down the front.
A blood-stained look at the bottom of her dress completed the picture. It is time for Senator Thorpe to resign. This was not the platform she was voted in on, having resigned from the Greens last year, supposedly a representative on environmental issues.
’Not my senator,’ many Indigenous and other Australians are saying about Senator Lidia Thorpe.”
Please get involved! We need your help!
We would love to connect with you and help you support Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, working against calls for its destruction and the genocide of its people. These calls are advancing at great pace since October 7. Indigenous Friends of Israel formed in July 2017 because of concerns over Australia’s policy towards Israel. Since then we have gone international as antisemitism is international and isan ancient hatred. The forces standing against Israel also oppose Western and/or Judeo-Christian values which have helped us achieve a society with social cohesion and the rule of law.
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