1. ANNUAL ISRAEL TRUTH WEEK CONFERENCE – ‘Pushing Back With Truth And Action,’ March 5-6/13: The second annual Israel Truth Week Conference was held in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, March 5-6, 2013. Details, program, handouts, media coverage, etc. below.
***all photos by David Strutt, www.dstruttphotography.com. Thank you once again, David, for your generosity.
REFERENCE HANDOUTS: Three of our presenters provided authoritative reference handouts to aid Israel supporters in countering the lies attacking her legitimacy under international law. They can be downloaded below.
VIDEO FOOTAGE: Unfortunately, we experienced technical issues with the raw video footage that we are still trying to resolve (as of June 25/13) before editing can begin.
2. HAMILTON CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP FUNDRAISER FOR ALYN HOSPITAL, March 18/13: The Hamilton Christian Fellowship held a screening of the documentary, Precious Life, and helped us raise nearly another $855. for ALYN, giving us a grand total of $15,000!
Executive Director of ‘Friends of ALYN Hospital,’ Cathy Lanyard, cries tears of joy for ‘her’ kids after Victory Church’s John Hall hands her a cheque for $10,000 130305. 2013 Israel Truth Week events raised a total of $15,000 for ALYN Hospital and $988 for Magen David Adom — Israel’s ‘Red Cross’ ambulance service.
3. LONDON, ONTARIO MAGEN DAVID ADOM FUNDRAISER, March 18/13: Reverend Joe Campbell (2nd from R in photo below) organized and hosted a private meeting with our conference finale keynote speaker Rev. Majed El Shafie on March 6 (Day 2), and also hosted a screening of Precious Life on March 18th at the Royal View Church in London, Ontario (site of the 2012 Israel Truth Week conference) in conjunction with Naomi Sheinbaum (centre in photo), co-Chair of the London, Canada chapter for Magen David Adom — Israel’s Red Cross. This Israel Truth Week event raised $988 for the charity whose work includes being first on the scene of terror attacks against Israeli civilians.
4. CANADIAN PATRIOTIC SOCIETY VIGIL AT YORK UNIVERSITY, March 11-15: This was a daily 2 hour vigil in protest of Israel Apartheid Week at York. Israel Truth Week founder Mark Vandermaas was present each day, and supporters and/or representatives from various pro-Israel groups attended, including two other Israel Truth Week conference speakers, Meir Weinstein of the Jewish Defence League (JDL) and Salomon Benzimra of Canadians for Israel’s Legal Rights (CILR). We received many honks and waves, and Mark was invited to appear on Michael Coren’s ‘The Arena’ Show.
5. RYERSON UNIVERSITY LECTURE, TORONTO, March 14/13: The first-ever on-campus Israel Truth Week event organized by the Ryerson Israeli Student Association & Ryerson Campus Conservatives featuring a lecture by ITW speaker, Salomon Benzimra — author of ‘The Jewish People’s Rights to the Land of Israel‘ — on Israel’s historical and legal claims to Palestine in accordance with international law.
Israel Truth Week presents the world human rights leader Rev. Majed El Shafie of One Free World International. He will present his award-winning documentary ‘Freedom Fighter,’ following which he will participate in an extended question and answer session, followed by a ‘mingle’ session which will close the conference. This exciting new keynote finale session will take place at Victory International Church during the evening of March 6th, 6:30-7:00pm, doors open 6:00pm.
ABOUT REV. MAJED EL SHAFIE: Rev. El Shafie is a former Muslim who was tortured and sentenced to die after converting to Christianity. He escaped to Israel and now, from Canada, he rescues other persecuted people, and travels the world’s hot spots speaking out against violence and persecution of innocents because of their faith. He has just returned from meeting numerous dignitaries in India, and he will be speaking at the United Nations this Thursday, Feb 28th at a conference organized by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, following which a ‘Draft International Convention for the Prevention of Incitement to Terror’ will be presented to the UN. Click here for more info.
The secret to Middle East Peace is at ALYN Hospital!
The compassionate Israel, the true Israel, the Israel you never see on the news.
Our goal is to raise $25,000 to help these heroic children.
under missiles from Gaza for all the children of ALYN – Jewish, Christian and Arab.
***Mr. Benzimra will be keynote speaker for the Day 1, Afternoon Session of the 2013 conference.