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American-Muslim women leaders visit scene of
Hamas massacre
‘I feel Israel is fighting
for the whole world,’ said one of the women.
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A reverential silence fell
on the room as the four American-Muslim women bowed their heads in prayer on
Friday for the victims of the Hamas attack on Israel.
Moments earlier, the
interfaith crowd in the apartment in this western Negev city, which included
Muslims, Jews, a white-turbaned Sikh, a mixed Israeli family, and Mayor Yitzhak
Danino, stood mesmerized as the Arabic words of supplication for the Israelis
murdered in the massacre were intoned.
“The Muslim world was
[mostly] silent about what happened on Oct. 7,” Bangladeshi-born Farhana
Kohrshed, 51, who moved to Boston as a teenager, told the group. “We are here
to denounce what Hamas has done to you.”
The extraordinary delegation
of Muslim women leaders traveled, in extraordinary times, through war-torn
southern Israel this weekend, braving renewed Hamas rocket attacks as the
cease-fire collapsed and taking cover outside as the projectiles struck nearby.
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They hunkered down under a
playground as rockets struck while they viewed damaged homes and heard the
story of 81-year-old Geula Baher. When the Hamas terrorists broke into her home
in Kibbutz Be’eri, she told her husband and nephew to hide. The terrorists then
fatally stabbed her in her living room.
About 10% of the Gaza border
kibbutz’s 1,100 residents were murdered on Oct. 7.
Be’eri had been on their
itinerary, but with the end of the ceasefire and the renewal of the war, it was
closed to all non-military personnel on Friday.
Next, they traveled to
Ofakim, which lost 52 residents in the attack. They visited the bullet-ridden
home of Rachel Edri, the grandmother who outsmarted the Hamas terrorists who
had taken her and her husband hostage.
They then met the Elfasi
family. The mother, Tali, a 40-year-old Moroccan Muslim woman, and her husband,
David, a 56-year-old Moroccan Jew, have six children and have lived in the city
for the last two decades. They do not have a safe room, and so they sheltered
with an ultra-Orthodox Jewish upstairs neighbor during the Hamas attack.
The visitors then headed to
a meeting with leaders in the Bedouin city of Rahat, who spoke about some of
the 19 members of their community who were among the 1,200 persons murdered on
Oct. 7.
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The women repeatedly
embraced the victims’ families at each stop, offering them strength.
“This is the real Israel
that you never hear about on the news,” said Anila Ali, 56, president and CEO
of the American Muslim and Multifaith Women’s Empowerment Council. “This is the
Israel nobody knows about,” she told JNS during the tour.
Ali was born in Pakistan
where, she said, she was taught to “hate and fear,” and moved to the U.S. as a
young mother after several years in Saudi Arabia showed her a different version
of Islam. She recently made headlines—and received death threats from California,
where she used to live—for her speech at last month’s massive March for Israel
in Washington, D.C., which ended with the Hebrew words “Am Yisrael Chai,” “the
Nation of Israel Lives.”
“As Muslim Americans we are
in a unique position to show others a mirror,” she said. “The evil is [among]
us who do not allow our children to live in peace and want perpetual war.”
The war that began nearly
two months ago is not about Israelis and Palestinians but about good and evil,
Ali said.
“Universally we are taught
that Israel is the oppressor and that the Palestinians have lost their
homeland,” said Soraya M. Deen, 60, from Los Angeles, who was born in Sri Lanka
and came to the U.S. as a young adult. “It’s like an oath to support the Palestinians,
and people don’t even differentiate between Hamas and Palestinians. Many lines
are blurred.”
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She said that the muted
reaction of the Muslims in the world and their failure to acknowledge Hamas’s
brutality on Oct. 7 as well as concern about the growing antisemitism in the
U.S. prompted her to come on the five-day trip.
“Evil prevails when good
people do nothing,” Deen said. “I feel Israel is fighting for the whole world.”
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