I am a proud Pakistani and a proud Zionist too

[Solomon2]

Noor Dahri ...... LOL

I am a proud Pakistani and a proud Zionist too
OCTOBER 11, 2017, 1:40 PM

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Noor Dahri is a director of Pakistan Israel Alliance (PIA) and Editor in Chief of the Newspaper Pak Israel News (PIN). He is an independent researcher based in London, UK. He has studied Counter Terrorism from International Institute for Counter Terrorism ICT- Herzliya - Israel. He is a honorary member of the ZF-UK

Landing in Israel was an experience like no other. I’d heard about the feeling of arriving at Ben Gurion from friends and colleagues I have met since founding the Pakistan Israel Alliance, but I certainly didn’t expect it to feel like this.

I was arriving early as a guest speaker of the IDC Herzliya Counter Terrorism Conference, and was the “advance party” as part of the Zionist Federation’s ground-breaking Muslim delegation to Israel.

Our group was in Israel from Thursday night until Monday afternoon. We saw many incredible things.

We visited the Western Wall, prayed at Al Aqsa, met with Israel’s first Bedouin diplomat and learnt of the Druze engagement with the IDF.

We travelled from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv, visiting the site of Israel’s declaration of independence, went to the north of Israel and saw the changing demographic and environment, and spent the Shabbat hosted at a wonderful community in Jerusalem, Kol Haneshama, and by a fantastic spokesperson for the country in the form of a Jerusalem city councillor Fleur Hassan-Nahoum and her family.

This was my first visit to Israel, and came off the back of much hard work by the Zionist Federation to build links with the Pakistani Muslim community in the UK.

Noor Dahri at the Kotel

This has been achieved firstly by founding the Pakistan Israel Alliance (PIA), of which I am proud to be the director, and more so by coordinating this visit and engaging with others from my community.

This journey has not been without challenge, though. Over the past couple of months there have been a series of articles in major Pakistani newspapers both in the UK and Pakistan accusing me of being a spy, funded by Mossad with a mission to destroy the Pakistani people.

While this is hurtful and horrible for me and my family to experience, it came as no surprise.

It is not a secret that to be a Zionist in Pakistan or within most Pakistani communities is not common and is not looked upon favourably.


The British-Pakistani delegation at Temple Mount visiting the Golden Done and Al Aqsa mosque. Noor Dahri is on the right

But nevertheless I am determined to be a unique voice, rising above the parapet and ensuring that Israel receives its fair treatment within my community.

I was not always a supporter of Israel. I have joined the marches in both Pakistan and London where the crowds can be heard shouting the familiar slogans calling for “death to Israel, death to Jews.”

I have been drawn in by the incitement, hatred and indoctrination of those seeking only to bring about a time when Israel no longer exists.

But I have also met Israelis, studied at Israel’s institutions, and now, with thanks to the Zionist Federation, even been to the country.


The delegation in Tel Aviv

As a result of these experiences, I can say unequivocally that the impression within my community and the reality on the ground could not be further from each other.

I am now proud to call myself a Zionist, and I am proud to have been able to visit the land of Israel.

I just wish as many others as possible from my community would take the perceived risk, ignore the anti-Israel rhetoric that is so often spewed out, and visit this wonderful country.

This delegation may have been the first of its kind from the UK, and possibly the world, but the PIA and the Zionist Federation intend to do many more like it and to ensure that this trip, and trips like it, are able to grow and thrive in the future.

 

[Muhammed45]

Proud Zionist puhahhhahahah

Nice joke dude

 

[salarsikander]

Using lone wolves to legitimize the state of occupation. Zionists are running out of reasoning. Pathetic

 

[Arsalan 345]

Don't care.find enough people who made religion a joke.he is one of them lol.

 

[Indus Pakistan]

While I agree with recognition of Israel like Turks etc have done but this is going too far on the other end of spectrum.

 

[Nefarious]

No one's perfect

 

[airmarshal]

Height of ignorance. Yuo dont have to be Zionist to like Jews. Not all Jews are Zionists.

Typical Zionist propaganda. Of the 210 million Pakistanis, you found just one!

 

[El Sidd]

Sure

 

[BHarwana]

While I agree with recognition of Israel like Turks etc have done but this is going too far on the other end of spectrum.

No one is going to recognize Israel in Pakistan. We are not Turks we are Pakistani and we have our own ideology. Pakistani ideology is not replica of some thing but a path of it's own self. This change is not coming and no one can bring it. Penetration into Pakistani mind set is not possible. We are Pakistanis. Turks are allies but we are People of history far more deep than Turks or any Europeans.

 

[YeBeWarned]

Proud Zionist ? what's next Proud Nazi ? Proud ISIS ? Proud fcuks

 

[Mirzah]

Proud to be a supporter of an racist apartheid state that kills woman and children in Gaza?

 

[BHarwana]

 

[Indus Pakistan]

No one is going to recognize Israel in Pakistan.

True. There are too many idiots. Most of Pakistan is ignorent. That is exactly why it is in a mess.

Pakistani ideology is not replica of some thing but a path of it's own self.

First of all you don't even know that the fcuk is "Pakistani ideology"? What is it?

*Rich get power, poor get fcuked
*Loot money
*Corrupption
*Terrorism
*Poverty
*Starvation
*Rampent lack of medical care
*No justice

Every part of Pakistan is riven with differences. Parties are divided along ethnic lines or tribal/biradri lines. What is Pakistani ideology is one thing to you and another to another. So yeh the country is vast pool of igorence which is why it in the state it is in. It get's fucked by America. It get's fcuked by Arabs. And in the meantime millions of Pakistan have to go abroad to get a life. So get a grip on reality Mr ideaology.

 

[Shah_G]

Being a Pakistani contridicts zionism and vice versa.

 

[BHarwana]

True. There are too many idiots. Most of Pakistan is ignorent. That is exactly why it is in a mess.

There is a problem with this statement. Pakistanis are not idiots, Pakistanis are the only one's who are not Idiots. People who think Pakistani's are idiots are idiots them selves. Why because Pakistan is one of the oldest civilization in the world and more old than the Jews them selves. The older the civilization you are the more stronger your social defences are and harder to penetrate.

First of all you don't even know that the fcuk is "Pakistani ideology"? What is it?

*Rich get power, poor get fcuked
*Loot money
*Corrupption
*Terrorism
*Poverty
*Starvation
*Rampent lack of medical care
*No justice

Every part of Pakistan is riven with differences. Parties are divided along ethnic lines or tribal/biradri lines. What is Pakistani ideology is one thing to you and another to another. So yeh the country is vast pool of igorence which is why it in the state it is in. It get's fucked by America. It get's fcuked by Arabs. And in the meantime millions of Pakistan have to go abroad to get a life. So get a grip on reality Mr ideaology.

Tell me a single country that is not facing these problems? You are just randomizing to support argument. There are many Pakistanis on this forum just ask them there will not be a single Pakistan Shia that don't has Sunni friends or there will not be a single Pakistani Sunni that don't has Wahhabi friends. I don't know which Pakistan you are talking about. Corruption in Pakistan yes there is corruption but less than Europe. Pakistan is a unity and you have been living in UK for too long I would suggest to make trip home and get in touch with the culture. A Pakistani farmer that has not studied till 3rd grade is more rich than an average business man in Europe. Pakistani are filthy rich. There was a time when Dewan opened BMW show rooms in Pakistan and the sales were highest in the world. You have been reading to much anti Pakistan propaganda and that is what has effected you. Poverty is there I am not denying it but Pakistan is Mashallah better than many countries in the world.