November 28, 2010
To the Editor,
I took a minute and signed this petition belowto protest UNESCO’s decision to deny the Jewish people their heritage locations of the Tomb of the Patriarchs and Rachel’s Tomb.
There is been TOO much obliteration of Jewish history throughout the world; cemetries in the Middle East and throughout Germany, Russia, Poland, Ukraine, etc. These historical sites should be allowed to remain.
Phil Spevack
Winnipeg
The United Nations has once again reared its anti-semitic head.
The Executive Board of UNESCO has declared 2 of Judaism’s holiest sites (Tomb of the Patriarchs and Tome of Rachel) to be mosques and demand that Israel remove the sites from its National Heritage list.
In an effort to erase Jewish history and supersede Jewish religious sites with Islamic institutions, Muslims have intentionally built mosques upon numerous synagogues and Jewish holy sites.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office decried the ludicrous nature of the UNESCO decision: "The attempt to detach the Nation of Israel from its heritage is absurd. If the nearly 4,000-year-old burial sites of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs of the Jewish Nation – Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah -are not part of its culture and tradition, then what is a national cultural site?"
In cooperating with efforts to erase Jewish historical ties to Israel, UNESCO is aiding and abetting those who hope to and obfuscate Israel’s Jewish past and undermine Israel’s Jewish future.
Please take this seriously and sign the petition below:
http://www.petitiononline.com/rabbiv/petition.html