HaYovel, a US tax-deductible organization, is reaching out to “Christian Zionist” volunteers to work in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
The group’s “special ops mission” highlighting the summer 2024 effort advertises an “unforgettable adventure in the land of the Bible.” HaYovel’s map shows an Israel extending from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, including the occupied West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights.
Unmentioned is the contribution of such efforts in entrenching an Israeli apartheid system in the West Bank. Palestinians live there with inferior rights and increasingly are relegated to bantustans as settlers take more and more land for themselves with Israeli government backing.
It’s a Wild West settler-colonial reality – a variation on the false claim of a land without a people for a people without a land – and conservative Christians from the US, Canada and elsewhere are literally there for it.
Participants are told they will get to “experience and visit places in Israel where most people don’t get to go,” words obscuring the discriminatory legal framework applied to Palestinians in the West Bank. (more...)
US “charity” aids armed Israeli settlers
While Israel erases Palestinian Gaza & ramps up annexation/ethnic cleansing of West Bank, a US Christian Zionist evangelical org - a 501c3 - brings Americans to the West Bank for "Special Ops" fun helping the settlers! https://t.co/nwWpeNvtci
— Lara Friedman (@LaraFriedmanDC) July 9, 2024
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