AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Israel David Weiss, spokesperson for the Union of Anti-Zionist Jews and a US citizen, sent a video message to the Qadumon World Assembly.
Full text of the video message from Israel David Weiss, spokesperson for the Union of Anti-Zionist Jews and a US citizen, to the Qadumon World Assembly:
"By the grace of Almighty God, I pray that God grants me His truth and wisdom so that I may deliver His message and sanctify His name. It has now been over a month since the brutal attack of the Zionists, the attack of the Israeli government on Iran, and seventy-seven years of ongoing Nakba, this massive occupation, catastrophe, and massacre of the Palestinian people, and we have not heard a proper distinction in the world between Judaism and Zionism.
Emphasis on the Distinction Between Judaism and Zionism
Therefore, we, as Jews faithful to the Torah, beg the world to understand that the Jewish people are completely opposed to the occupation and opposed to the existence of this false, pseudo-Jewish state called Israel—a state that from day one has brutally attacked and arrested Jews; detaining elderly rabbis and young children for refusing to serve in the army, and the Jews have not remained silent. Although brutally beaten and murdered, hundreds of thousands of us rise up and demonstrate in the streets of Jerusalem and in front of the White House, telling the world that Zionism is a selfish, flawed nationalist movement, constructed with this false facade—the Star of David and the name of Israel—to justify its evil in seizing the Holy Land and silencing those who rise up for the rights of the Palestinian people.
Iran's Good Treatment of Jews
In Iran, the Islamic Republic of Iran, from day one I said this to Ayatollah Khomeini and then to Ayatollah Khamenei. And the Iranian people have behaved respectfully in protecting the Jews, and we have been able to practice our religion. Zionism has created this false Jewish facade and condemns those who love the Jews as evil enemies of the Jews. We will not remain silent. We, as Jews, must speak out and work for the people of Iran.
Request from the US Government to Stop the Killing of People
And as a Jew who is obligated to be a loyal citizen in the countries where I reside, the Jewish people of Iran are loyal to the Islamic Republic of Iran. As a US citizen, I must be a loyal citizen. So I speak with respect and humility to my president and my government: they must immediately rise up and establish peace, and put an end to the killings that the Zionist state of Israel, Netanyahu and his government, have inflicted upon the Iranian people by declaring the Iranian people and their government as enemies of the Jews. No.
This is completely false. They protect the Jews. They have protected the Jews. They are friends of the Jews and are not enemies of the people of the world. So please, we beg you.
Do not let Netanyahu and his government continue this bloodshed in Iran
Be careful that peace is established. Do not let Netanyahu and his government continue this bloodshed in Iran. See what they have done. The Israeli government has now also razed and destroyed a synagogue, the 'Rafia Mia' synagogue in Tehran. There are over 100 synagogues in Iran, over 30 synagogues in Tehran, and they have destroyed it. This is just one of the destructions of the thousands and thousands they have killed in Iran; from government officials, from the Supreme Leader to the President, to various individuals, from the Speaker of Parliament and so on.
End the Occupation of Palestine by the Zionist State of Israel
And those who said they are not opposed to the Jews—the problem is Zionism and the State of Israel. End this war. God help us. End this war. End the occupation of Palestine by the Zionist state of Israel.
And if you remove the obstacle to peace, which is the Zionist state of Israel, then we can live together, Jews and Muslims, as we have had before, and we as Jews can show our gratitude to the people who emerged from the (former) empire, today the Palestinian people, and to the Persian people today, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and to Lebanon, Yemen, and so on. We Jews are obligated to show this, and we can live together in peace and harmony, as we always have."
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