World Zionist Organization (WZO) Marks the National Day for Countering Anti-Semitism with a Worldwide Rally

Join the CZC in the City of Angels! General public and organizations invited to join and participate!  

You will be here

Be in the center of it all--in Hollywood!--to sound our voices so that Jews and people of all faiths stand up against hate and in support for Jewish rights! 

January 27, 2013, 1- 3 pm 

Hollywood & Highland  

(Meet near the Metro station just east of Highland. Park in the Hollywood & Highland shopping center for $2 for two hours)

Please rsvp so we know how many people to expect and so that we can provide you with special instructions. 

RSVP to creativezionistcoalition@gmail.com  

Also, click here to join the event on Facebook.  

BACKGROUND 

As the forces of Nazi Germany retreated on January 27, 1945, the Red Army captured the infamous death camp of Auschwitz. The United Nations chose to mark that day as the International Day for Commemoration of the Holocaust; the State of Israel later declared it the National Day for Countering Antisemitism.  

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Volunteers in Israel in any future Emergency Situation!

Emergency Volunteers Project (EVP) in Israel to open Los Angeles chapter to mobilize and train Angelenos to fly to Israel in emergency situations

Los Angeles, CA - EVP (Emergency Volunteers Project), a non-profit dedicated to training, mobilizing and deploying American volunteers to assist Israel in times of crisis, war and conflict plans to set up a volunteers' training center in Los Angeles. Led by a new local Zionist organization, Creative Zionist Coalition and supported by several community organizations, the initiative plans to bring Israeli EVP personnel to Los Angeles in February to both recruit and train Jewish and non-Jewish firefighters and medical volunteers for deployment in any future emergency situation.

Adi Zahavi, CEO of EVP, visited Los Angeles in December 2012 to meet with local community leaders and senior American firefighters and secured the training facilities necessary to ensure the success of this endeavor.

Volunteers of all kinds-community volunteers, active paramedics, EMTs, firefighters, and rescue personnel-will be sorely needed in Israel whenever a crisis should erupt. With the call-up of Israeli army reserves, many positions in hospitals, schools and municipalities will be left abandoned. In particular, Israel badly lacks many professionally trained firefighters.

It's no secret that some Jewish organizations pay their staff very generous salaries that enable them to live a more than comfortable life in America, along with benefits such as trips to Israel, dinners and parties at prestigious restaurants and venues, and the opportunity to hobnob with celebrities and public officials who love Israel and the Jews.

Jewish professionals today are able to create good lives for themselves in the US, sending their children to the best schools and colleges, buying a two-story home with a nice garage-all the while feeling great about the good they are doing in the world. And who can blame them?

These organizations sell wonderful products which ignite Jewish passions and Zionist sentiments of Jews all over the world: love for the Jewish people, Jewish tradition and, of course, the state of Israel. They entice donors and constituencies with promises to engage in good deeds that befit Jewish tradition, whether they are helping the needy, sending much-needed money and supplies to Israel, writing letters to politicians in support of Israel, or organizing social gatherings where Jews can network and, God-willing, find a mate, so that one day they can raise upstanding members of the Jewish community in America, and so on, forever.

However, from my observations, it seems that maintaining Jewish comfort and stature in America has become to many Jewish leaders a goal even more worthy than the causes they promote: meaningful and true safety of the Jewish people wherever they are and particularly in Israel.

What happens if Jews are asked to put their comfortable Jewish lifestyles on the line? What if standing up for the Jewish people involves taking a controversial position with regards to Israel's defense that could offend a potential financier or "network" opportunity? What would be the higher value: Jewish principle and long-term Jewish safety, or present-day comfort and prestige?

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Are Some Palestinian Arabs Actually Jewish?

The "two state solution" (a misnomer) calls for dividing the land of Israel into two states for two "people," Israel and Palestine, based on the fear that absorbing the Arab population of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) would render Jews outnumbered in their own country.

Merely living as a Jewish majority should not be the only raison d'être for the existence of a Jewish state in the land of Israel. The Jewish people must remember why they deserve and desire the land of Israel in the first place: it is rightfully theirs. The Jewish people were the last, official owners of the land of Israel (having been exiled from it 2,000 years ago) and Jews reconquered it in multiple wars of self-defense. The land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people, and it is the place where they can flower and flourish to their fullest potential as a people, living as a "light unto the nations" in a region overrun by darkness.

We must not begin with the premise that Jews must exist as the majority population, and then fit borders to suit that premise. Rather, Israel must begin with the premise that Jews desire and deserve to settle the entire land of Israel and do what they do best: make their desert bloom.

Assuming the doomsday demographic predictions are even accurate (which several studies show they are not), what would happen if, all of a sudden, we found out that a good number of Palestinian Arabs are, in fact, racially Jewish? And that if they would be formally converted to Judaism, they would tip the scales of demography in favor of a Jewish majority? Would they be rejected by mainstream Jews because of their Arab roots? Would they be embraced? Would Jews who believe in the "two-state solution" suddenly give up the impractical and unethical vision of splitting the land of Israel to create "Israel" and "Palestine"?

These questions should not be dismissed as theoretical because, in fact, evidence suggests that many Palestinian Arabs are actually racially and, in some instances, culturally Jews.

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Journalist Lara Berman has interviewed political commentator and Los Angeles litigator Steve Goldberg on the nomination of Charles "Chuck" Hagel for Secretary of Defense by President Obama. Steve Goldberg is National Vice Chair of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) and serves on the Executive Board of the World Likud and World Zionist Organization (WZO). He warns that Obama's pro-Israel mask has now been lifted with the appointment of a former Senator with a voting record hostile to Israel. His appointment marks a turning point in Israel-US relations.

Obama's true colors revealed via Hagel's appointment

Also agree Hagel is dangerous to both US and Israeli security? To take action, write to your Senators.

Write to California Senator Barbara Boxer,  here.

Write to California Senator Dianne Feinstein, here.  

MORE THOUGHTS ON HAGEL: 

AIPAC's Hagel Dilemma, Jonathan Tobin, Commentary Magazine 

It's the Anti-Americanism, Stupid, Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post  

The Meaning of Hagel, Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post  

Nominating Hagel Will Send a Message to Netanyahu, MJ Rosenberg, HuffPo