22-Mar-16: Speaking human rights truth to power at UNHRC

The Human Rights Council in Geneva
[Image Source: UN/Jean-Marc Ferré]

Kay Wilson had two minutes to speak to an assembly of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva yesterday (Monday). Here's the text, slightly modified from an article on the Israel National News website today, and a video below it.

I’m Kay Wilson, an Israeli Jewish tour guide and educator for StandWithUs. In December 2010, I was gagged, bound and held at knife-point for half an hour by two Palestinian terrorists, then butchered 13 times with a machete while watching my American Christian friend, Kristine Luken, hacked to death before my eyes because her executioners thought she was Jewish. The United Nations Human Rights Council immorally whitewashes terrorism as helplessness and frustration. As a survivor, I know that to be shackled in perpetual victimhood is not kind, helpful, moral or true. Personally, I’ve not also taken out my frustrations by holding Arabs hostage, tying them up and hacking them to death. Through the likes of their social media and educational institutions, the Palestinian Authority incites people to believe that Jews are unworthy of life. The incentive: American and European taxpayers’ money given to the Palestinian Authority, who rewards incarcerated murderers with monthly execution stipends.
Avoiding duty, and with pathological bias, you blame Israel, a Jewish democratic state of thriving coexistence, in which an Israeli Arab Muslim surgeon saved my life. Gagged with prejudice, bound with bigotry or held hostage by hate, and ineffective to do the goodness that will enhance people’s lives, may this council be set free, liberated to embrace both the integrity and impartiality needed to make our region a better place.

Here's the two minute video:

We have had reason to comment in the past on how Kay "passionately and articulately walks her audience through the before, the during and the after of being murdered - and surviving." See our post: "16-Jun-15: Kay Wilson's revenge". Also this: "30-Dec-13: Pretend walls, twisted messages: praising evil, condemning the innocents". 

The UNHCR defines its role as being

responsible for strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights around the globe and for addressing situations of human rights violations and make recommendations on them [UNHCR website]

Around the globe might be an extravagant way of describing its actual focus. Since UNHCR's creation in 2006, it had managed to condemn one country, Israel, 62 times; that's more resolutions condemning Israel than the rest of the world combined [source]. The council's monthly agenda includes one specific item - what it terms the “human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied territories” - every single month. That makes it the only region in the world getting that kind of attention. How well this safeguards "human rights around the globe" is a mystery.

Its membership is currently Albania, Algeria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bolivia, Botswana, Burundi, China, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Maldives, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands, Nigeria, Panama, Paraguay, Philippines, Portugal, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, South Africa, Switzerland, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Togo, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Venezuela, Viet Nam.

Ponder the list as you note that, in the UNHCR's own words, the members

are elected by the majority of members of the General Assembly of the United Nations through direct and secret ballot. The General Assembly takes into account the candidate States’ contribution to the promotion and protection of human rights, as well as their voluntary pledges and commitments in this regard.

Note also that Saudi Arabia, a chronic abuser of human rights, a place where 47 people were judicially beheaded in a single day some weeks ago, a seat-holder at the UNHCR because of a secret vote-fixing deal with the United Kingdom, and (absurdly) the elected head of UNHRC's Consultative Group, sees itself as the UNHCR's next president and no one within the organization seems to see that as a bitter joke.

And a reminder to all of us that the very most basic of human rights is the right to stay alive.

02-Nov-15: Making sense of senselessness | Kay Wilson is a survivor

Members of the Pal Arab terrorist cell who carried out
the murderous attack [Image Source]

Most of us have never been victims of a stabbing frenzy, as Kay Wilson has.

When she describes what was done to her, and then how she came to choose life, not in some abstract philosophical sense but as a powerful daily passion that illuminates her life, she speaks with the unadorned voice of authenticity.

She knows what evil looks like, feels like, sounds like, smells like from hideously up close, and when she shares this via the video below, the resulting six-and-a-half-minutes have the impact of truly unforgettable testimony. She reminds us that there is never closure. The impact on terror's victims is forever.

Men and women with knives are seeking out victims all over our land as these words are being keyed in. Based on our experience of terror, we have never been in doubt about how there are no two sides to the coin, that what drives them is unrecognizable from the values that empower and energize the society in which we live.

It's a good, important and difficult time to listen and watch.

Here's Kay's interview with the Jerusalem Post from four years ago: ‘What a waste, I’m 46 years old and I’m being murdered’

16-Jun-15: Kay Wilson's revenge

In the BBC's initial report, the reporter [video]
struggles with the claim that the
attackers are allegedly "Arabs" [Source]

A ferocious attack by terror-minded Palestinian Arabs on a pair of defenseless women hiking in the hills near Jerusalem on December 18, 2010 [BBC report here; The Guardian, here] is the prelude to an extraordinary recent talk recorded on video as a TEDx event.

Speaking to an audience in Beer Sheva on the campus of Ben Gurion University of the Negev on May 13, 2015, Kay Wilson passionately and articulately walks her audience through the before, the during and the after of being murdered - and surviving. She shares what it means to witness her friend and companion butchered right beside her, and to identify the killers - who must have thought they had gotten away with their barbarism - and watch them convicted.

There are societies all over the world where a person who undergoes what she did becomes twisted, vicious and bent on revenge. Even if her own website [Let My People Giggle] had been given a different name, it would be clear that hatefulness is not what Kay embodies.

But in a way, standing up in front of audiences, as she now does, and projecting a message of optimism and humanity is an act of revenge.

She describes here as only a survivor can what it means to agonize over what was lost, to celebrate what remains, and above all to embrace life. Though someone has given this video clip a title that includes the words "idiot's guide", it is not at all for idiots. Material dealing with terror and those who engage in it or give it their support is all over the Internet. Actual idiots (we know too many) will not find it hard to locate speeches and video clips that fully address their needs.

Kay Wilson's presentation is literally unforgettable.

From the notes accompanying the YouTube post:

Kay Wilson is a British-born Israeli. She is a jazz pianist, cartoonist, a licensed tour guide and a writer whose articles are published in The Tower, Arutz 7 and the Times of Israel. Kay is also the survivor of a horrific machete attack that occurred in December 2010 while guiding her American friend and client, the late Kristine Luken. The two women were attacked and held at knife point and eventually tied up and then brutally stabbed. Kay watched helplessly as her friend was executed. Despite sustaining horrendous injuries herself, she managed to play dead and later escape. After nearly four years of physical rehabilitation and trauma therapy, Kay began working as an inspirational speaker, speaking for non-profits on issues of human rights for global victims of terrorism and campaigning against hate speech on university campuses. 

Kay Wilson and Arnold Roth met in December 2014 when both participated in a different kind of video testimony [online here, and background here]. And we wrote about her a year before that in a post on our blog ["30-Dec-13: Pretend walls, twisted messages: praising evil, condemning the innocents"]. Kay recounted her experiences to the Jerusalem Post in an interview ["‘What a waste, I’m 46 years old and I’m being murdered’"] published there in January 2011.

29-Oct-14: Truths about Jerusalem and its Jews - and the stones that tell them

We snapped this on the Mount of Olives
yesterday

We buried a dear friend yesterday.

An outstanding professor of law, a brilliant legal mind, an energetic and effective advocate for human rights, a man of sincere piety, gentle ways, modesty and huge achievements, a child of parents who survived the Holocaust, and a cherished friend for decades, his untimely passing in the United States was a tremendous shock.

He was a gentleman who knew better than most how to arrange his affairs, and had purchased (as we learned just two days ago) a burial plot in the ancient cemetery that spills down the slopes of Jerusalem's Mount of Olives.

Family and friends accompanied his coffin on its journey from a Connecticut hospital to New York to Israel. Then, after the briefest of ceremonies on Tuesday in Jerusalem (because our friend had stipulated that there were to be no eulogies, and this was respected - to everyone's loss), several groups of us drove through the eastern part of our nation's capital city and then along the increasingly tense roads that lead up to Har Hazeitim, the Mount of Olives.

Did we say ancient? We meant it. Jews - including some of the most influential figures in the history of Jewish scholarship - have been buried there since time immemorial. In Wikipedia's words, it "has been used as a Jewish cemetery for over 3,000 years". Have you been to any other location on the face of the earth that has served one task, one people, for three millennia? And as we can testify, it is in active use today.

In fact, it has been in use down through all the ages except for the very black period when it fell into the control of the Arab Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan between 1948 when their British-led military over-ran it during Israel's War of Independence, and 1967 when they were defeated and uprooted by the Israelis.

In the course of those nightmarish 19 years, Jordan carried out a process of massive vandalism, desecration and destruction of this inexpressibly special site including the deliberate uprooting of ancient, historically invaluable tombstones. These they "used as paving stones for the new hotel and for Jordanian army camps". In a formal sense, this was a breach of legal obligations, since "the framework of the 3 April 1949 Armistice Agreements [required Jordan] to allow "free access to the holy sites and cultural institutions and use of the cemeteries on the Mount of Olives" [Wikipedia]. This was, of course, never even remotely observed. Respect for other people's sacred traditions became a reality in Jerusalem only when Israel took control after the Six Day War.

The photograph above is a reminder of something else for which Jerusalem and its Mount of Olives stand. We snapped it yesterday. It shows the fresh grave, dug just a day earlier, of a young woman from Ecuador whose passion for being part of the Jewish people brought her to Jerusalem, and to an embrace of Jewish tradition and peoplehood that ended when a Palestinian Arab terrorist equipped with a speeding vehicle mowed down a crowd standing at a Jerusalem tram stop. We wrote about it here: "27-Oct-14: Another quiet, decent life whose tragic end fails to merit news reporting".

October 27, 2014: Funeral service for the young woman,
an Ecuadorian victim of terror,
who embraced Judaism [Image Source]

Her name is Karen Yemima Mosquera (the memorial service in Jerusalem is the subject of the photo over there to the right), and the world from which she and her forebears came is different in almost every respect from the one in which we were raised and with which we are familiar.

Notwithstanding those profound differences, for as long as there continues to be a Jewish cemetery on Jerusalem's Mount of Olives, the young woman's place of eternal rest will be just two or three meters away from the grave of our dear friend.

Hers is in the foreground of the photo below, just stones and dirt and a simple marker for now until a tombstone is prepared; his, seconds after the interment and made of the same simple materials, is in the background.

We wrote yesterday that her mother, speaking to Ha'aretz from the Jerusalem hospital while the struggle to save her daughter's life was still going on, said: "People always say things against Israel in the news, but when you come here you see the truth." Karen's life, and the deplorable news-reporting of her murder-by-terrorism at the hands of a Hamas agent, underscore the reality of her mother's insights.

Mount of Olives, Tuesday: Our friend's grave at the back; the young woman's
in the foreground

18-Jun-14: Sharing some thoughts with Christian advocates of an Israel boycott

Click for the video page

Presbyterians for Middle East Peace [website] asked two Israelis whose lives, in the group's words, have been forever changed by senseless violence to speak about their experience, the importance of reconciliation, and their hopes for the future.

They are Arnold Roth and Kay Wilson. Their two testimonies are online here in video clip form.

"For those of who truly care about peace, and I see them wherever I go in this country, we know that what's needed is to build bridges and not to blow them up." [Arnold Roth, speaking in the video clip]

The background is described today in a Commentary Magazine piece by Jonathan Mark: "Will the Presbyterian Church USA Vote for Divestment (and Irrelevance)?"

The Israel-Palestine Mission Network was formed by the PCUSA General Assembly in 2004, the same year in which it passed a resolution calling for “phased selective divestment in multinational corporations operating in Israel.” While the Assembly was at it, it claimed that the “occupation” was “at the root of evil acts committed against innocent people on both sides of the conflict” and lectured Israelis on the importance of making peace with the Palestinians... In 2012, they almost persuaded the Assembly to disinvest from Caterpillar, Hewlett Packard, and Motorola for “profiting from non-peaceful activities in Israel-Palestine.” They lost 333 to 331. Encouraged, they are back at it again at this year’s General Assembly, which is meeting this week... Those members of the General Assembly who are merely foolish, rather than hostile to Jews, may vote for the resolution, which is admittedly much narrower than the one passed in 2004, thinking it relatively benign. That is the BDS strategy. Get what you can get, then publicly marvel at your momentum, even if what you got is less than what you were able to get ten years ago... The more likely result, momentum-wise, is even more departures from the church... Presbyterians may notice that they have leaders, and that these leaders are, increasingly, radicals and fools. Even devoted churchgoers can’t be blamed for leaving a church when it starts to smell this bad.

Jewish clergy from right across the political spectrum have paid attention, and are expressing themselves about as clearly and unitedly as independent-minded leaders ever do: see "Jewish leaders from every state urge Presbyterian Church to choose partnership and reconciliation over divestment and division" (via Religion News tonight), and the forcefully expressed "Enough! Why we won’t be at the Presbyterian General Assembly" (Jerusalem Post today).

A Christian journal, The Layman Online, says that

"Since 2004 the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been second only to sexuality issues in generating controversy at PCUSA assemblies. And judging by the volume and ferocity of the overtures advanced this year, the intensity of the anti-Israel activists will again almost match that of the same-sex marriage champions... These measures will create the impression of a popular groundswell of Presbyterians demanding that their denomination rebuke the Jewish state. In fact, however, the overtures come from a handful of presbyteries that have a record of pro-Palestinian advocacy. PCUSA members in general are more moderate, and more divided, on Israeli-Palestinian issues."

If the boycott Israel campaign decision does pass, Presbyterian Church (USA), a mainline Protestant Christian denomination, would be the largest religious organization in the country to impose sanctions on Israel, writes the religion correspondent at Voice of America. He quotes the Rev. John Wimberly, a retired church pastor, urging Christians to think twice before imposing sanctions on Israel. “There is a 2,000-year history of economic sanctions being used by Christians aimed at Jews and it's a bloody, nasty history and that is kind of my bottom line opposition right there..."  The proponents of BDS ignore Palestinian attacks on Israel, he observes, while the divestment proposal at the church's General Assembly has been pushed by lobbyists from outside the denomination. Wimberley, by the way, is now on the steering committee for Presbyterians for Middle East Peace, the people who posted the Arnold Roth video.

Jonathan Mark's observation about a dwindling church membership is supported by numbers we saw today over at Wikipedia. There were 1,760,200 members of the Presbyterian Church (USA) in 2013 according to PCUSA's own data. There had been 3.1 million of them in 1984. The decline since 2000 (by our calculation) exceeds 30%. 

While being boycotted by Presbyterians (if that turns out to be their decision this week) is no great honour, we expect the State of Israel will somehow survive it. 

We do wonder though about the future of a mainline church in steep decline which puts its name to a publication like "Zionism Unsettled: A Congregational Study Guide", promoted via the church's online bookstore, and aimed at "advocating for the human rights of Palestinians under military occupation". The editors at CAMERA point out that it promotes some serious lies: that Zionism and Israel have been sheltered from debate, particularly in mainline churches in the US; that Jews were well treated in Muslim countries in the Middle East until Zionism arrived in the region in the 19th century; and that Israel is singularly responsible for the suffering of the Palestinians. 

CAMERA also notes that the Presbyterian booklet is endorsed by James M. Wall (of whom we wrote here: "18-Jul-13: When he lionizes child killers, is James M. Wall speaking for mainstream Christians") which, for us, pretty much speaks for itself.

30-Dec-13: Pretend walls, twisted messages: praising evil, condemning the innocents

In central London, a wall that conceals and vilifies: St James's Church Piccadilly [Image Source]

From a distance, events in our part of the world can appear to be oh-so-simple, particularly to those for whom the most complex of narratives reduce down to strong and bad versus weak and good. 

Irresponsible dumbing-down of that kind lies behind the embrace by Europeans and Americans of vile and racist terrorism, jihadism and religion-driven violence. And it's behind the infuriatingly dishonest stunt just executed by the management of a prominent London church in honour of this holiday season.

In the courtyard of St James's Church in Piccadilly, London, as part of what they have disingenuously labelled “Bethlehem Unwrapped”, the church celebrated their holidays this year via the pricey construction of a wall. It's an 8 meters tall replica of the security barrier erected by Israel in the past decade as an entirely non-lethal response to the relentless, utterly lethal attacks by Islamist terrorists on ordinary Israelis: an expression of hatred and war. 

Kristine Luken, Kay Wilson's friend,
was murdered by Palestinian Arab
men in a hideous and especially
sadistic act of terror, near
Jerusalem three years ago. 

The St James's leadership have pretty much adopted the same jihadist strategy, using their wall as a focus for a campaign of vilification and hatred against Israelis and projecting anti-Israel propaganda onto it. 

But there is a different and much more positive sort of message that the St James's wall has evoked, without meaning to. An article entitled "Why Israel’s security barrier matters: a harrowing story often forgotten", by Raheem Kassam of TrendingCentral.com points out what the stunted and distorted theological pretensions of that Piccadilly church seek to hide.

On December 18th 2010, Kay Wilson and her Christian, American friend Kristine Luken were hiking through a forest outside Beit Shemesh in Israel, around 15 miles away from Bethlehem, and 20 miles away from Jerusalem. 

Wilson, a British-born Israeli tour guide, would never have thought that on that very day, she would witness her friend being murdered in front of her own eyes, and come terrifyingly close to death herself. But that is precisely what happened, after the pair were set upon by two Palestinian terrorists, Ayad Fasafa and Kifah Ghanimat [they are in the photo below]. 

The pair, who had crossed into Israel illegally, using an area in which Israel’s security barrier was incomplete, plunged a butcher’s knife into Wilson’s chest 13 times before leaving her for dead. Wilson witnessed the last cries of her friend, Luken, as she was killed just metres away. 

Whilst Luken did not survive the attack, Wilson managed to make it to nearby picnickers, who sought help for her. Incredibly, she survived, and should perhaps be one of the most significant voices on why Israel’s security barrier is no “apartheid wall”, but instead, a necessary feature of a country and a people that are threatened daily with terrorist atrocities that make no attempt to differentiate between military and civilian targets. In her attackers’ eyes, Wilson was as legitimate a casualty of their war as an enemy combatant. 

But Wilson’s tale is not told, nor heard, often enough. 

Instead, in the West at least, we are conditioned into believing that Israel’s security barrier is some form of religious, ethnic, or cultural separation wall, designed to keep ordinary Palestinians from the more productive livelihoods that their Israeli counterparts enjoy. Nothing could be further from the truth. 

Incidents such as Wilson and Luken’s, as well as statistics that prove that the wall/fence/barrier, call it what you will, actually succeeds in stopping these heinous attacks, should serve as critical reminders of why such a measure is even necessary. But for many, neither the human implications, nor the statistical data, are enough to alter what is fundamentally a political narrative aimed at demonising the State of Israel. 

And this is what we have seen this week with St. James’s Church in London erecting a fantasy wall in “solidarity” with the Palestinians who have to live on the other side. 

As early as 2006 it was reported that since the fence’s erection, there was an approximate 90 percent decrease in the number of successful terror attacks registered. A drop of approximately 70 percent was also recorded in the number of casualties resulting from terror attacks. 

But it is much easier to stand around a fake wall in London than convey the ultimate truths and realities of the situation on the ground in Israel and the West Bank. In fact, if “Bethlehem Unwrapped” campaign were being honest about the security fence, it would have erected just a metre or two of concrete, and a simple wire fence for the rest of their demonstration, because these are the real proportions of the make-up of the real security fence. Just 10 percent of Israel’s “apartheid wall” is actually a wall, while the rest is a simple wire fence: a fact that you would not find out at the St. James’s Church demonstration. 

And of course, the fence isn’t even complete yet – a fact that Ha’aretz reported was a deciding factor in the murder of Luken, and several months earlier, of Neta Sorek, a feminist activist and English teacher.

Both of these murders, as well as the other crimes to which the suspects have been linked, raise anew the question of infiltrations from the West Bank. The area between Jerusalem and the Gush Etzion settlement bloc is well known as the “illegal migrant path”, where thousands of Palestinian job-seekers – as well as criminals and occasionally, terrorists – migrate on a weekly basis. Nine years after then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s government decided to erect the security barrier, only about two-thirds of the fence is actually standing.

Kristine Luken was a practicing Christian, someone the church should be standing up for and commemorating the life of. Instead, the St. James’s Church display makes a tawdry political mockery of Luken’s life, of Wilson’s harrowing experiences, and of Sorek’s grissly death. 

Until “pro-Palestinian” do-gooders can acknowledge the facts as laid out above, and propose some way of dealing with the horrific challenges the people of Israel face, then I’m afraid we should feel nothing but complete and utter regret towards them, and complete and utter disdain for their high-definition, YouTube-activist pantomime shows.

Kay Wilson's brutal attackers and Kristine Luken's killers: Being consistent,
no seasonal  message of goodwill and cheer from St James's Church,
Piccadilly, would be complete without them

The inimitable Melanie Phillips wrote an open letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury about this very shabby wall and the even shabbier clerical thinking behind it: "A church of hate".

And Kay Wilson, who is mentioned in Raheem Kassem's short essay above, and whose harrowing background is described here, published the following open letter yesterday on the Algemeiner website.

I believe that I of all people could be forgiven for hating Palestinians. I believe too that I could be forgiven for thinking all Palestinians are terrorists. But I do not. On the contrary, I have maintained relationships with my Palestinian friends, so that my ignorance will not give me reason to hate. I hate hatred. It is the hatred of St. James’ Church in London, in the form of a Christmas stunt, that has compelled me to write. 

I would like to think that as Christians, the church would never condone Kristine Luken’s heinous murder or the attack on myself. I suspect, however, that you may rationalise this savagery as an inevitable result of the “Israeli occupation.” 

You would probably suggest that the Palestinians who murdered my friend were themselves victims who grew up in depravity. I would concur, but would point out that if poverty was the cause, the aristocrats who flew into the twin towers had no reason to commit their crimes. 

The Palestinian terrorists were indeed victims, victims of a radical and primitive Islamist regime that force feeds them a morally malnourished diet of hatred of Jews and hatred of any life – including their own. They were also deprived: deprived of an education that cherishes culture, history, literature, art, and the dignity of difference. Their impoverished morality coupled with ignorant generalizations is what enabled two men to butcher defenseless women without so much as blinking an eye. 

The “wall” that has been erected outside St. James’ Church is hopefully just a result of your own ignorance and generalisations concerning the complex situation here in the Middle East. Nevertheless, like all walls, it serves as a facade and a barrier. 

If the wall was scrutinized, one would see that underneath the whitewashed surface that concerns itself with Israeli policies, there are blocks of anti-Semitism. These bricks stand high. They raise expectations from an entire people group. This wall precedes to separate the nation of Israel as non-desirable. 

The wall is cemented together by a superior theology that tells its people that G-d gave up on the Jews. This is the same theology that lies behind radical Islam. G-d tried the Jews, then the Christians, but ultimately it was the Muslims who He ultimately chose. 

The wall, is just one brick in a global wall of an Islamist agenda, an agenda that will stop at nothing until the destruction of the Jewish State. To your own cultural detriment, it is a wall that obstructs truth and ultimately seeks not only to destroy Israel but every Judeo-Christian society.
The wall inflames an ancient conflict that for those like myself, who live in this region, long not for an exacerbation in hatred but for a quenching of hostilities. 

The wall is an affront to Kristine Luken and other victims of terror who may well have been alive today had there have been a wall erected on the other 90 percent of land that separates us from our Palestinian neighbours. 

The wall is an injustice to Christians living under Muslim despots. Ironically it is the State of Israel, that you deem pariah and unjust, that is unique in the Middle East because unlike all of our neighbours, our Christian population is flourishing and our Christians have full religious rights. Please write on your wall, under the cross, now obscured by the crescent… “RIP Kristine Luken.”

Sadly, we know from experience that people who are ready to spend large sums of cash and months of effort in creating a stunt like St James's (Lindsay Meader, Lucy Winkett, Hugh Valentine, reachable via the public email address rector@sjp.org.uk) neither listen nor noticeably understand. Trying to share the complexity of the situation with them is like talking to a wall.

So too is reminding them of the life of our daughter, Malki, terminated violently and brutally by the thuggish Hamas murderers with whom the worshippers of St James's have aligned themselves and articulately expressed solidarity.

UPDATE: Several readers who contacted us after reading the posting above requested to know how they can support the concrete good work that has been done daily and on an entirely non-political basis in memory of our murdered daughter, Malki, for the past decade. For them, and for the members of the St James's Church who will surely come to understand how deeply their understanding of how barriers and terrorists work have misled them and do teshuva, and also for readers who are as disturbed as we are by the shallowness and hypocrisy of the St James's Church leadership, here is an invitation to visit the Malki Foundation website. Giving support - perhaps just a tiny fraction of what the St James's clergy spent on their public relations bill - to the non-sectarian work of the Malki Foundation for the benefit of children from every religious persuasion in the holy land is, to our way of thinking, an excellent way to reaffirm our belief in the goodness of humanity and to acknowledge the beneficence of the divine. Click here to learn more about the Malki Foundation's work. Or view the very short video clip below.