New York Sheikh, on Visit to Israel, Speaks Out Against Mamdani’s Snub of Jewish State The Sharaka-led delegation of Muslim faith leaders spent a day in Israel meeting survivors, visiting memorial sites, and promoting face-to-face interfaith solidarity after October 7 By Giorgia Valente/The Media Line A Muslim delegation brought to Israel by Sharaka—the organization that […]
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New York Sheikh, on Visit to Israel, Speaks Out Against Mamdani’s Snub of Jewish State
The Sharaka-led delegation of Muslim faith leaders spent a day in Israel meeting survivors, visiting memorial sites, and promoting face-to-face interfaith solidarity after October 7
By Giorgia Valente/The Media Line
A Muslim delegation brought to Israel by Sharaka—the organization that has quietly built people-to-people bridges between Israelis and Arab and Muslim communities since the 2020 Abraham Accords—spent a day listening to Jewish grief, visiting sites of memory, and arguing that interfaith solidarity cannot be reduced to social media slogans. The visitors stood out not only for arriving in the wake of October 7, but because they are faith leaders who have pursued this work for decades, often at personal cost.
Their message, delivered in meetings with educators and survivors, was deliberately counter-current: build ties in person, reject zero-sum narratives, and carry those lessons home. “There are so many people that actually stand with us,” said Alyssa Annis of Sharaka, who described the visit as a rare source of hope since October 7.
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