Jews and Africans, Victims of Jihad, are Allies

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What happened to Jews on October 7, 2023 is currently happening to Africans in about 10+ African countries. Exactly the same: jihadists storm African villages, slaughter innocent people, capture and rape women and girls. Yet nobody is paying much attention. The AfricanJewishalliance.org has been formed to solidify a new Black/Jewish alliance. Join the Rhode Island Coalition for Israel (RICI) and African Jewish Alliance (AJA) for this important discussion led by Dr. Charles Jacobs, board member and founder of AJA, humanitarian and advocate, and author of "Betrayal: The Failure of American Jewish Leadership."

The African Jewish Alliance (AJA) was established in early 2024 by leaders from the American Jewish and African communities to unite the voices of those whose people have suffered persecution under Islamist-Jihadist regimes which have sought to destroy black, indigenous, and Christian communities. The alliance between the Jewish people and African victims of Jihad is a natural one; violent Jihadist extremism being a shared source of each community’s persecution and modern history. The urgent nature of addressing this shared trauma was once again emphasized by the massacre of the Jewish people in Israel on October 7, 2023 where over 1,000 people were brutally murdered and over 200 were taken hostage. These tactics; the murder, kidnap, and sexual assault of civilians, are weaponized by terror organizations everyday which operate from within at least 15 African countries. The AJA’s mission is to educate the public, government, and future community leaders from every background about the crisis of Islamist extremism, and Jihadist terrorism throughout Africa. They aim to illuminate the complexities of these conflicts across the continent, providing information about the ongoing repression of speech, sexual violence against women, continued practice of slavery, patterns of religious persecution, and in the case of Sudan, genocide of indigenous, Black Africans.

As a secondary mission, the AJA also seeks to restore friendship between the Black African-American and Jewish American communities which have been historical allies within the context of the American civil rights movement.