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Simon Deng, an escaped jihad slave from South Sudan, is accompanied in Israel by Dr. Charles Jacobs (pictured), President of the American Anti-Slavery group.

Charles Jacobs

Charles Jacobs is president of the Jewish Leadership Project.

A campaign to liberate slaves would be a natural extension of the previous decade’s anti-apartheid movement, when major human-rights organizations and black leaders passionately took on the issue of racial discrimination.
In sermons recorded between 1998 and 2003, he attacked Israel with antisemitic tropes dating back to the patristic writings of the early church.
Perhaps he believes that pointing a finger at the Jews will divert Muslim rage from the Vatican.
The life and suffering of the Coptic minority in Egypt is a due to the Islamic invasion, dominance and ongoing persecution that occurs under Islamic rule.
A self-proclaimed advocate for blacks everywhere, the writer ignores the ongoing brutal Islamic “holy war” in at least nine African countries.
Although a secular republic, Islam is the majority religion and pervades the whole of society. This causes some Chadians to show hostility and intolerance towards Christians, whom they regard as “infidels.”
Alongside other rebel militias, jihadist terrorists are devastating the country.
Jewish activists told them, warned them and begged them to defend the community from media bias and anti-Israel educators.
Since their insurgency began, they have killed civilians as well as soldiers, government officials and U.N. peacekeeping forces.
More than 1,000 churches, public Christian properties, houses, shops and businesses were attacked, damaged, bombed, looted, destroyed, burned down, closed or confiscated for faith-related reasons in 2023.
Western intersectionality makes it impossible for the victims of Islamic oppression in the Middle East and Africa to have their voices heard.
One key failure of American communal leaders has been their policy of the “Big Tent.”