... for participants in a small new volunteer program initiated by the Zionist Freedom Alliance - a "revolutionary" group that promotes Zionism on US campuses as an indigenous, not biblical or political movement - connecting with Israel means defying international pressure that all construction east of the Green Line come to a halt, and heading deep into the West Bank to show solidarity with the [illegal] Jewish communities there.
"We are working to strengthen Israel's hold on this land because the Jewish people has every legal, moral and historic right to this land," Zionist Freedom Alliance head Yehuda HaKohen said on Tuesday, as he supervised about a dozen program participants planting a vineyard on a hilltop near the Har Bracha settlement, just outside Nablus....
... By day, participants labor with their hands, and at night, they learn how to better defend Israel on campus back home...
... the alliance sent out e-mails and Facebook messages last week, inviting young people to "volunteer for six days on a hilltop in the Shomron," and "help build a new Jewish community in Israel's heartland." ...
"When I was a kid, my grandfather bought me a tree in Israel," said recent University of Miami graduate Mitchell Blickman...
"We're here to strengthen the connection to this land," said Binyamin Rubin, who made aliya a month ago, after being a Zionist Freedom Alliance activist at the University of Pennsylvania...
"...we're planting something, we're building things," said Abbey Weiss, a volunteer from the New York area.... Full story
International Court of Justice:
"Recalling that the Security Council described Israel’s policy of establishing settlements in that territory as a “flagrant violation” of the Fourth Geneva Convention, the Court finds that those settlements have been established in breach of international law."
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