By Ashley Church on the Israel Institute of NZ website…
It would be an understatement to say that the events of 7 October changed the focus of my life.
While I’m not Jewish, I’ve been an increasingly passionate supporter of Israel and the Jewish people for at least two decades, and was a co-founder of the Israel Institute of New Zealand in 2017. But as committed as I thought I was – the extent of that commitment was challenged following the horrific events of that morning back in early October.
The sheer brutality and animalistic savagery of the Hamas massacre, torture and rape of over 1,200 mostly Jewish people, that day, transformed my support of the Jews from being largely academic to gut wrenchingly real – and there was more to come.
Over the next few weeks and months the world turned into a bizarre parody of commonsense and reason. Despite the overwhelming and obviousd culpability of Hamas, Israel was being portrayed in protests around the globe as the aggressor and protaganist – while the murderous terrorists in Hamas were portrayed as victims and freedom fighters.
Read the full article on the Israel Institute of NZ here.
