By Josh Hasten on JNS.org…
For many, “support for Israel is faith-based,” says the director of the Indigenous Embassy Jerusalem.
“For many indigenous people, support for Israel is faith-based,” Sheree Trotter, the director of the Indigenous Embassy Jerusalem, told JNS on Tuesday at the Indigenous Embassy Jerusalem Academic Symposium 2025, held at the city’s Bible Lands Museum.
Trotter, who is a Maori (Te Arawa) from New Zealand, said the purpose of the symposium was to push back against academia, which promotes a false narrative about Jews being foreign colonizers in their ancestral land.
“This is our second annual symposium, designed to put a stake in the ground, to push back on the false narratives, to point to the truth and to build a body of material that can be used by others to address these issues,” she said.
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