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The Nobel Peace Prize has never been an
institution considered friendly to Israel. Just think of the South African
archbishop Desmond Tutu, Yasser Arafat, former American president Jimmy Carter,
Finnish politician Martti Ahtisaari, to name only a few great opponents and
critics of the Jewish State.
Now the Nobel has
gone instead to a supporter and admirer of Israel, the former sex slave of
ISIS, the Yazidi survivor Nadia Murad.
"The Jews and the
Yazidis share a common history of genocide that has shaped the identity of our
peoples," said Nadia a few months ago visiting Israel, where she was
welcomed at the Knesset, at the University of Tel Aviv and at Yad Vashem,
the national memorial for the Shoah. "The history of the Jewish people
is a unique story, yet it echoes in the experiences of my own community. Like
the Jews, the Yazidis have a thousand-year-old history. And despite the
persecution, both our peoples have survived".
Nadia has been helped by
the Israeli humanitarian organization IsraAID and the Israeli office of the
International Development Society (Sid), which helps the Yazidis see what they
have gone through in Iraq recognized as genocide.
It is thanks to Israeli
NGO IsraAID, which Nadia called "more effective than many governments",
that Nadia was able to tell her story to the Western public. It was
through IsraAID's work with the Yazidi refugees in the now-evacuated Petra camp
in Greece that director Yotam Polizer understood that Israel could play an
important role in the Yazidi cause.
"Unlike the Syrian refugees, who saw our logo with the Star of David and
were confused, the Yazidis welcomed us with a huge smile. They said that for
them it was a natural connection” said Polizer.
The Yazidis believe that
the 1941 anti-Jewish pogrom in Baghdad, the "Farhud", was the
forerunner of what would happen in Iraq to religious minorities, such as
Christians and Yazidis.
In Israel, Nadia has held
meetings with the Knesset legislators and met with the heads of the Tel Aviv
University together with Polizer, in an effort to bring Yazidi students to
study in Israel. "I always wanted to come here to Israel, so many victims
wanted to come and get help from the government and the people of Israel,"
Nadia said. And again:
"Before this
genocide, I had little information about the Jewish community because we do not
have many Jews in Iraq. Then I saw that Jewish communities support us. Like the
Jews, the Yazidis showed resilience in the face of oppression.
"Maintaining one's
identity is a force of resistance. We refuse to allow the oppressors to be
stronger than us”.
This is also the story of
Israel's 70 years of existence. And Zionism has been the most powerful
resistance to the religious-ethnic cleansing political Islam has spread in the
Middle East against its minorities.
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