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Celebrating Israel in the
Streets of New York
Every year, the ZOA is proud to march
down Fifth Avenue in Manhattan along with
thousands of other pro-Israel supporters
in the Celebrate Israel Parade. This year
was no different. To celebrate Israel’s 71st
birthday and 52nd Yom Yerushalayim, the
ZOA had more supporters march with us
than ever before, including children, young
professionals, students, and families.
The theme of the 2019 Celebrate Israel
Parade was “Only in Israel – Rak B’Yisrael,”
which was represented on the ZOA banner
and t-shirts, which highlighted the historical
and Biblical connection to the ancestral
homeland of the Jewish people.
Only in Israel can a Jew truly feel at home.
Only in Israel can one see the stories and
scenes of the Bible before their very own eyes.
The homeland of the Jewish people is only in
the sovereign Jewish State of Israel.
The Rising Scourge of
Islamic Anti-Semitism
Not only did Dr. Andrew G. Bostom speak
on July 30 to national board and Donor
Society members at our ZOA headquarters
in New York, his lecture was also broadcast as
the first beta test of ZOA’s initiative to make
important events accessible to our Donor
Society members across the country. We are
looking forward to fine-tuning this procedure
and increasing these opportunities in 2020.
Dr. Bostom, a renowned author and
Associate Professor of Medicine at Brown
University Medical School, is also a leading
authority on Islam. In a well-organized,
scholarly presentation, using references to the
Koran and drawing on substantial historical
documentation, Dr. Bostom demonstrated
that by applying academic criteria to a strict
and honest reading of the Koran, one can
only come to the conclusion that anti-Semitism
is written into the fabric of Islam. This
is not to say that all
who practice Islam
are anti-Semitic.
However, those who
are not anti-Semitic
can only come to this
position through a
fundamental reinterpretation
of the text.
ZOA6 0activists at the 2019 Celebrate Israel Parade in NYC Morton Klein, Dr. Andrew Boston, and
the ZOA NY Metro team