Reports of a number of synagogues within the U.S. and Canada reportedly promoting Palestinian land for unlawful settlement behind closed doorways have sparked outrage.
One of those conferences, organized by the Texas-based actual property firm Keller Williams, was protested in Englewood, New Jersey.
Dozens of protesters, together with pro-peace Jews, gathered exterior the Ahavath Torah Synagogue in Englewood, holding Palestinian flags and protesting the sale of properties to American Zionist Jews from unlawful settlement areas.
Surrounded by tight police safety measures, the protesters gathered close to the synagogue, for hours chanting slogans corresponding to “Freedom for Palestine,” “End the Israeli occupation,” and “Illegal settlements must stop.”
In pouring rain, protesters carried banners saying: “You can’t sell stolen lands,” “This is land theft,” and “Do not do business on stolen lands.”
Leila Hazou, the daughter of a Palestinian who was born in Jerusalem, stated that she got here from Milford, Pennsylvania, almost two hours away, to protest “the greatest injustice of our time.”
Decrying the assembly contained in the synagogue, Hazou informed Anadolu Agency (AA): “It’s a disgusting situation for me that lands and properties that don’t belong to them and are illegally settled are being sold. It’s illegal and morally wrong in many ways. This shouldn’t happen in this country or anywhere else. That’s why we had to be here to reject it.”
The New Jersey workplace of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) additionally condemned the gross sales.
“Places of worship should be sacred. The use of places of worship like synagogues to sell stolen lands by violating international law is deeply concerning,” CAIR stated in a written assertion.
The gross sales conferences, organized by realtor Keller Williams together with the unlawful Israeli settlers group “Your Home in Israel,” are being held privately in New Jersey, New York, Toronto, and Montreal.
Pre-registration is required for the conferences, and solely Jewish members are allowed to enter.
Estimates point out about 700,000 Israeli settlers dwell in roughly 300 unlawful settlements within the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
All Jewish settlements within the occupied territories are thought-about unlawful beneath worldwide legislation.
Source: www.dailysabah.com