Ha'aretz Op Ed from Yachad Director, Hannah Weisfeld: A toxic
attachment
Standing on a hilltop in the South Hebron Hills over Pesach, the
group of British Jews who had come to visit the southernmost tip of
the West Bank was joined for a small part of the trip by four IDF
soldiers who stumbled across this unlikely band of travelers whilst
on patrol. Jews from all over the U.K., with a kosher-for-Pesach
picnic packed in the trunk of the bus, they wanted to see the West
Bank for themselves. The soldiers wanted to hear what they were
discussing.
The Jewish group's visit is reflective of a growing sense of
concern amongst U.K. Jewry as to what is to be done with this piece
of territory, apparently loved so deeply by a sector of the Israeli
population and Jewish people at large, that they are prepared to
allow this toxic love to kill Israel, slowly but surely.
This concern manifests itself in a desire to see and understand
the West Bank, with various groups organizing fact-finding and
experiential trips. Yachad, of which I am the director, has, in its
first year of operation, taken close to 200 British Jews on such
trips. Many British Jews are stepping over the 'line' to see the
mythical territory they so often read about.
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