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Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein and ZOA Co-Vice Chair Dr. Paul Tartell released the following statement:
Happily, ZOA’s Mission to Israel this spring coincided with Jerusalem Day (Sunday, May 29), which commemorates the 55th anniversary of Jerusalem’s miraculous reunification as Israel’s undivided, eternal capital. This timing enabled several ZOA mission attendees to attend the Jerusalem Day flag march, and to witness, firsthand, that the Jerusalem Day march was a joyous, musical, peaceful family event, similar to New York’s “Celebrate Israel” parade on Fifth Avenue.
Unfortunately, the anti-Israel media and hostile-to-Israel groups turn every innocent, happy Jewish celebration into an occasion to defame Jews and the Jewish state. The hostile media and groups falsely portrayed the Jerusalem Day flag march, and the beautiful, peaceful Jewish families and children participating in the flag march, as a bunch of “violent” religious Jews “rampaging” through “Arab” Jerusalem. In fact, Jerusalem was the capital of Jewish kingdoms since 1,600 years before Islam was even born. And every census, from the first census in the 1840s onwards, has documented that Jews were and are the largest religious group in Jerusalem.
ZOA mission attendees are responding here, with their first-hand accounts of the beautiful, peaceful Jerusalem Day flag march they just witnessed:
Sergio Heumann, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida recounted:
“Taking part in the Jerusalem Day March was one of the most amazing experiences of my life. Tens of thousands of men, women, teenagers and children were dancing and singing in pure joy and waving Israeli flags. The Jewish people are alive and well in our eternal and undivided capital Jerusalem. I was very impressed by how peaceful the whole march was despite the large number of participants walking through the narrow streets of the Old City. I also saw children and babies in strollers and on their parents’ shoulders. I did not observe any act of violence during over three hours of participation in the March.”
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