• For over 3,000 years, no nations or empires but Israel have had their capital in Jerusalem.
• The Bible mentions the name "Jerusalem" nearly 800 times; but not once is it mentioned in the Qur'an.
• The U.S. House in 1990 and the Senate in 1995 passed the Jerusalem Embassy Act recognizing Jerusalem as the spiritual center of Judaism and the undivided capital of Israel, where persons of all religious faiths are guaranteed full access to holy sites. This Act further authorized the United States to move its Embassy to Jerusalem.
• Israel has the sovereign right, like any democratic nation, to allow the building of new houses for its residents anywhere, including all of Jerusalem.

Sponsored by:
Christians and Jews United for Israel, Rev. Fumio Taku, President and the May Long Activism Fund for Israel
Endorsed by:

Boston Israel Action Committee; Vision NH for Israel; Consulate General of Israel to New England; Charles Jacobs/Americans for Peace and Tolerance; H. Freedman/Americans for a Safe Israel; L. Cardoza-Moore/Proclaiming Justice To the Nations; L. Lowenthal Marcus/Z-Street; R. Kunst/Shalom International; Act for America ( Palm Beach County Chapter); B. Gilinsky/Jewish Action Alliance; South Area Israel Action; Unity Coalition for Israel; R. Booker/Institute for Hebraic-Christian Studies; Temple Reyim; Hope Chapel, Keene NH; Russian Jewish Community Foundation rjcf.com; Solomonia.com; Boston's Patriots; Boston4Israel; Rev. Lennie Allen/Bridges for Peace; Zionist Organization of America; Commonwealth Covenant Keepers; Israel My Delight

Rabbi A. Alpert/Congregation Agudat Achim; Rabbi William G Hamilton; Rabbi J Hausman/AhavathTorah Congregation; Pastor R. Miranda/Congregation Lion of Judah; Pastor V. Khokhlan/King of Nations House of Prayer; Rabbi A. Turetz/Temple Emeth; Rev. F. Eiklor/Shalom Int'l; Pastor S. Smith/Christian Renewal Church; Pastor R. Ingram/ Victory Assembly of God; Rabbi J. Segal/Congregation Betenu; Rabbi M. Sendor/Young Israel of Sharon; Rabbi G. Haber/ Congregation Mishkan Tefila; Pastor D. Long/Faith Christian Church; Pastor T. Peetz/Word of Life Church; Rabbi J. Pritzker/Congregation Or Yisrael; Pastor G. E. Bell/Strong Tower Church; Anna Kolodner; Ph.D; Paul Sassieni; J. Marks/New England Concerts of Prayer; Rabbi Dr. G. C. Gewirtz /Young Israel of Brookline; Rabbi D. H. Liben, Temple Israel of Natick

Dear Friends of Israel,

Please join us at the March for Jerusalem on May 23rd. There will be flags, banners, music, and speakers in support of an undivided Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

Read PMW Bulletin: PA tells Israel to go to Europe and Ethiopia, falsely claiming that all of Israel is "stolen" land.

We must arise and speak truth about Israel's right to exist as the national homeland for Jews, and Jerusalem as Israel's undivided capital.

At the March, you will also be able to add your signature to the following "Declaration of Support for Israel and Jerusalem".

In response to rising global anti-Semitism and threats to Israel's security, we declare our support of Israel's right to exist as the historical national homeland for Jews, with Jerusalem as her undivided capital. We further support Israel's right to retain secure and defensible borders for the protection of her citizens against foreign enemies and terror insurgents.

We recognize Israel as the most democratic nation in the Middle East, a nation that guarantees "complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants, irrespective of religion, race or sex" and pledges to "safeguard the Holy Places of all religion." (Quoted from the 1948 Israeli Declaration of Independence). Sharing with us these precious democratic and Judeo-Christian values, Israel has been and must remain America's closest ally in the Middle East.

For the last 3,000 years, despite foreign occupiers and attackers, Israel has been the declared homeland of one people: the Jews. The Babylonians in the sixth century BCE and the Romans in 70 CE destroyed the Temple and scattered the Jewish people. Subsequent empires have appropriated the land. Yet, none of them, including the Arab Muslim occupiers, have ever called Israel their homeland, or Jerusalem their national capital. Finally, in 1948, the Jews reclaimed their nation, with Jerusalem as its capital. But from 1948 to 1967, Jordan closed off the east Jerusalem and the West Bank from Israel, stopping any Jews from visiting their holy sites. In the 1967 Six Day War, Israel re-captured all of Jerusalem and brought her undivided capital under a sovereign Jewish rule. And thus it shall remain as Israel's eternal capital.

The Bible specifically mentions the name "Jerusalem" nearly 800 times, linking the city with the faith and history of the Jewish people. In contrast, the birth of Islam 1,400 years ago took place outside the land of Israel. The name of Jerusalem does not appear even once in Islam's holy book, the Qur'an.

Despite over a century of Arab rejectionism and wars large and small that have needlessly taken thousands of Jewish and Arab lives, a secure Israel must continue to be the center of our hopes and prayers.

"[The] heart and soul of the Jewish people engenders the thought that if you want one simple word to symbolize all of Jewish history, that word would be 'Jerusalem.'"
-Teddy Kollek

In view of the above, on May 23, 2010, at the Boston March for Jerusalem, we declare and affirm our support of Israel and her undivided capital, Jerusalem.

The Media Shrugs

I was there with a busload from Boston standing outside the Israeli Consulate in New York City Sunday, April 25,2010. An awesome sense of solidarity warmed the atmosphere on a raw and rainy day. Four hours standing in cold rain was a small price to pay to honor Jerusalem, but the media's silence about this event has been deafening. Did you hear about it anywhere but on Face Book or AtlasShrugs.com? I was interviewed by CBS and the NY Post, yet where is the coverage on this event?

Former Mayor of "the Big Apple", Ed Koch put out a powerful message on YouTube promoting the event and asking "why the silence?" Our elected leaders should be standing up for our longtime friend, Israel, because our President is sending the wrong message...dissing PM Netanyahu but bending over backwards to appease the enemies of Israel in a bogus quest for peace in the Middle East through the Road Map and Two State Solution which leads to the unthinkable 'Final Solution' Israel's enemies have been wanting all along...annihilation.

At the event a speaker declared, Bibi Netanyahu, by default, the "Leader of the Free World", an astounding abdication of American leadership by our current president. We have taken for granted the US position of prominence yet President Obama seems to be tossing that all away even saying we are a Muslim nation. It behooves each one of us to stand up and be counted. Let the Lord's people say so! We need to exhibit moral clarity on Israel and not be afraid to proclaim we are a Judeo-Christian nation, we shall have no other gods before us.

I stood for four hours in the bone chilling rain with sincere folks, mostly older, who have not had their world view programmed by liberal press and academia. Many Russian Jews were in attendance, they have 'been there and done that'...and are not goin' there again! They smell an ill wind, like 1938 all over again and they will not be silenced. If it had been sunny there would have probably been double the size crowd which swelled at one point to around 3,000 according to estimation by organizers and Atlas Shrugs activist Pamela Geller who was one of the organizers and speakers on Sunday.

A petite, older Jewish lady stood to my left for hours; together we made sure signs propped up did not fall into the path of the thousands of yellow cabs, city buses and countless SUVs that passed carrying curious onlookers taken by surprise.

The Media failed to even report on it afterward. Perhaps it shrugs because no violence erupted. No nasty comments were flung at the counter-protesters.

My hands were too cold and busy holding my sign to use my umbrella which dangled from my wrist. A kind, senior gentleman to my right was sharing his umbrella and making encouraging comments. Many thanked me, a Christian, for coming the distance, a four hour trip each way on a bus with 23 other assorted FOI, about half of them Russian Jews with a zeal for the freedom they have enjoyed in the USA. If only the home grown would wake up and smell the coffee.

Those who made it to the event, stood under their umbrellas, holding signs, listening to rousing speeches by rabbis and radio personalities as bus fumes filled their nostrils. The police asked us to stay within their barricades. We were corralled in an ever expanding five-foot fence which was moved several times cutting off two whole lanes on Yitzak Rabin Way in front of 801 Second Ave between 42nd and 43rd Street. It was a short walk back to the bus which had dropped us off at the United Nations Building. We knew a message had been sent. Time will tell if the media will do their job to relay it.

Most importantly, did President Obama hear our message? President Obama, Don't throw Israel under the bus!

We have another opportunity in Boston on May 23rd to show our support at the Boston March for Jerusalem beginning at 3pm at Kehillath Israel 384 Harvard St (near Coolidge Corner) Brookline, rain or shine!

Chris Noonan Funnell

Commonwealth Covenant Keepers