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Christians Demonstrate Against BDS

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Around 150 Christian friends of Israel in the Netherlands joined with Jewish leaders to protest a motion made by the GreenLeft party in support of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, The Jerusalem Post reported.

“How would you react if I would say, ‘I embrace the Nazism of Hitler-Germany?’” These were the words spoken by Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs, the chief rabbi of the Netherlands during the demonstration on the doorstep of the national GreenLeft offices in Utrecht.

“A serious mistake, that encourages anti-Semitism,” the rabbi said. “But just like the German ‘Autobahn’ is only a small part of the murderous Nazi-time, the boycott of products from Israel is only a small part of the goal of BDS. BDS stands for the destruction of Israel, not only the boycott of a few products from the so-called occupied territories,” he explained.

Roger van Oordt, director of Christian for Israel, said that the GreenLeft calls BDS a “legitimate means in a justified battle,” that is the first step toward the destruction of the State of Israel.

Christians for Israel also sent a statement to GreenLeft describing the dangers of BDS, and asked the party to distance itself from the poisonous movement.

“We hope that GreenLeft will think about it and stay far away from anti-Semitism,” van Oordt said.

The Dutch GreenLeft party was formed by a merger of four left-wing parties: the Communist Party of the Netherlands, the Pacifist Socialist Party, the Political Party of Radicals and the Evangelical People's Party.

How Evangelicals can cooperate with communists and radicals is a puzzle. In recent years, the malformed party has grown in popularity and has been trying to impose anti-Israel policies on the government of the Netherlands. Why the Dutch think they have something to say about Israel is bizarre, but whatever the reason, the green party want Holland to boycott Israel.

PHOTO: Israelis look at BDS propaganda in downtown Amsterdam. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

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The first scroll to go out from Yerushalayim into the Netherlands after the rebirth of Israël in 1948. - Peter Nissen, Beit Emoenah

Peter Nissen with 200-year old Torah scroll

The first scroll to go out from Yerushalayim 

into the Netherlands 

after the rebirth of Israël in 1948.

Peter Nissen, Beit Emoenah

July 5, 2017

Hello Steve,

How are you? It’s good to hear from you.

Things are changing very fast and with far reaching impact.

I did my late Bar Mitzvah last year and after that, I was blessed to become the shomer of an original handwritten Torah scroll.

We received it as a gift from a rabbi in Yerushalayim. 

It is a scroll that came out of Europe during World War II to save it from the Germans. And now it is the first scroll to go out from Yerushalayim into the Netherlands after the rebirth of Israël in 1948.

We think it is one of many signs that the time of the Messiah is very nearby. Yerushalayim is again the center of the world. And the Word of Adonai is going out of it to the Gentiles.

We are so grateful and therefore the only task left is announcing the Kingdom of Adonai Eloheinu.

Peter and wife Carla

The Netherlands

Baruch haShem v’brachot to you and your family. Hope to see you in Yerushalayim some day,

Peter Nissen

Beit Emoenah

Driehoekweg 18

7737 PB Stegeren

The Netherlands

 info@beit-emoenah.nl

On July 9, 2017, Peter wrote back in an email after my word to him about this being such a joy.

It is!! Every day we open this scroll and read it in His original version The Lord opens new perspectives of the Messiah and what He did and who He is. If one reads the first sentence of the Book, everyone reads: "In the beginning, God created ...... etc" But, if you look further into it, in the original version, you can read it also as: "By giving the Head (or the most important; which is Yeshua) God created ....." or another way to translate it is: “The Son confirmed the Creation of God through...

Love For His People Note: 

Peter and I have been good friends since we met each other at a Vision for Israel/The Joseph Storehouse Sukkot Celebration, with Barry and Batya Segal, in Jerusalem. It must have been in the fall of 2006 or 2007, during the Feast of Tabernacles. Either at Ramat Rachel in southeast Jerusalem or Yad HaShmona just west of Jerusalem. (Do you remember, Peter, the time and location?) 

(L-R) Peter Nissin (The Netherlands), Karl Eglof Hartel (Germany)
Steve Martin and Timmy Bryant (USA)
Vision for Israel/The Joseph Storehouse Sukkot Celebration
Yad Hashmona west of Jerusalem 2008

Peter was heading up the work of the humanitarian ministry in The Netherlands while I was the USA Director of the same in Charlotte, North Carolina. I remember Peter helping me count the offering after one meeting, and we had a joy trying to put the different foreign currencies into separate envelopes for proper accounting. Seeing all the nations represented in Jerusalem was the real joy!

Over the years we have stayed connected as best we can. And yes, my good friend Peter, we will see each other again in Yerushalayim. Sooner than later!

We bless Yeshua HaMashiach!

Shalom,

Steve Martin

Founder/President

Love For His People, Inc.

Charlotte, North Carolina

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