A must read for all members of the pro-America, pro-Israel, pro-human rights, anti-terror community, this excellent article in this week’s Jerusalem Post magazine highlights the Israeli government’s disordered priorities in possibly rejecting some of Israel’s natural allies: the Christians of Southern Sudan.
The world knows about the people of Darfur as the Muslim victims of …
From The New York Daily News
By HEATHER ROBINSON
“My mother told me, ‘My heart is broken to be separated from you, but you will find family in America,’” says Morris Sheriff. “That never left my mind.”
Nattily dressed in a tan suit and a red and …
From The New York Daily News
By HEATHER ROBINSON
March 5, 2008
“When you look at the news, they don’t talk about different African communities in the U.S. unless something bad happens.”
On the third floor of the Harlem State Office Building, groups of young Africans and African-Americans sit at …
Yesterday Israel’s Ma’ariv carried my opinion piece on the Christian Sudanese refugees in Israel. It was translated into Hebrew, but I have pasted the English version below.
Also, today The New York Sun carries the tragic news from Khartoum of the murder of a young …
Slavery still exists in Sudan. The enslaved—of whom there are at least several thousand—are Christians, according to Simon Deng, who was himself enslaved as a boy by an Arab Muslim family.
Last night Mr. Deng spoke at a dinner hosted by The Hudson Institute, a Manhattan think tank, about conditions in Sudan, both for Muslims in …
“Who is the real enemy of Mohammed,” asks Simon Deng, an escaped slave from Sudan and leading human rights activist, “a child who names a teddy bear, or the one who is killing little Muhammed in Darfur?” Mr. Deng, whom I have interviewed for The New York Daily News and who is one of …
From The New York Daily News
BY HEATHER ROBINSON
November 27, 2007
“This is the mother, who has leprosy, [and] this is the son,” says Adeboye Subuloye, looking down at a photograph of a woman and a tall young man. “We bought a sewing machine for him.
“We decided to empower the children,” he …
From the The New York Daily News
By HEATHER ROBINSON
Wednesday, July 4th 2007, 4:00 AM
Even after Dr. Mehret Mandefro had repeatedly warned them to always use a condom, girls and women would return to her office with …
By HEATHER ROBINSON
Thursday, May 3rd 2007, 8:54 PM
An ordinary mortal can’t help but wonder how Dr. Philip Ozuah does …
Israel’s Sudanese Friends
From Ma’ariv
by HEATHER ROBINSON
Reprinted from Ma’ariv January 1, 2008
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told the Knesset recently that while he would like to grant asylum to 489 Muslim refugees from Sudan’s Darfur region to protect them from genocide, he is inclined to send back some 2,300 refugees from southern Sudan, who are Christians. …