It’s Time to Bring Them Home!

June 3, 2008

On April 30, 2008, Israeli news agency Ynetnews headlined an article, “Major anti-Semitic attacks triple in 2007.” It reported the following: “A 6.6% rise in the number of anti-Semitic attacks has been registered across the world in 2007, a report published…by the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism at the Tel Aviv University revealed. Furthermore, the number of severe violent attacks rose threefold in 2007…Fifty-seven percent of the attacks in 2007 have been classified as ‘major attacks’―three times higher than in 2006…Meanwhile, in Germany, Canada, and Britain the number of anti-Semitics assaults…grew in 2007.”

Jacoby was more specific and reported (in part) these incidents:

In Britain: The cover of the New Statesman, a left-wing magazine depicted a large Star of David stabbing the Union Jack. Oxford professor Tom Paulin, a noted poet, told an Egyptian interviewer that American Jews who move to the West Bank [Judea and Samaria] and Gaza “should be shot dead.” A Jewish yeshivah [religious school] student reading the Psalms was stabbed 27 times on a London bus.

“Anti-Semitism,” wrote a columnist in the Spectator, “has become respectable at London dinner tables.” She quoted one member of the House of Lords: “The Jews have been asking for it, and now, thank God, we can say what we think at last.”
You may be wondering, “How can I help? It must be very expensive to rescue a Jewish person.” For some, it might be, but we do not pay for the actual travel to Israel. Other agencies provide that. We do the ground work to meet legal requirements and provide for their needs before they leave. We only ask US $400 to help one Jewish person “return to their ancestors.” But if you can’t give that amount, any amount will help. Now is the time! Won’t you partner with God in helping to fulfill His desire to see His people come home?

“The Lord will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will choose Israel and will settle them in their own land. Aliens will join them and unite with the house of Jacob. Nations will take them and bring them to their own place” (Isaiah 14:1–2a, NIV).

Blessings from Jerusalem,

Rebecca J. Brimmer
International President and CEO

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