Ideology & Advocacy

Eretz Yisrael, the Land of Israel, is the eternal possession of Am Yisrael-the Jewish people. G-d’s promise and covenant with His nation Israel, which grants us the Land of Israel, is an eternal convenant, not subject to revocation or revision. No earthly power has the right to contravene it.

The Jewish claim and right to Eretz Yisrael is superior to all other claims, since it flows from Heaven-it is the will of the L-rd of Hosts. The covenant between G-d and Israel, sealed in stone at Mount Sinai, is eternal and unchanging. The absolute truth of the Torah is solely sufficient to justify Jewish sovereignty over Jewish land. We could end the discussion right there and lack for nothing, but obviously, for the sake of those who do not recognize the truth of Judaism, we must go further.

The Jewish right to the Land is a religious right that predates all other religious claims to it by a considerable number of years. Even by scholarly standards, Judaism is the oldest surviving organized world religion. Around 1,900 years before Christianity and 2,500 years before Islam, Avraham HaIvri (Abraham The Hebrew) became the first to follow the Torah, the first Jew.

On top of the supreme religious right, the Jewish right to the land Jewish people is backed by irrefutable ancient historical facts, modern historical facts (most notably the war record but also records of settlement) and legal facts, as well as moral right.

While the Jewish people may be punished for their sins through the loss of sovereignty over portions of the land and even exile from it, our right to Eretz Yisrael is eternal. Any human power that fights to undermine the Nation of Israel’s right to the Land of Israel is fighting against not only the Jewish people but also directly against G-d and His plan for humanity: “For out of Zion shall the Torah come forth, and the word of the L-rd from Jerusalem” (Isaiah 2:3).

While the Jewish Defense League’s mandate and focus is on the defense of Jews in the Galut (Exile), and our organization does not interfere in internal Israeli politics, we do not relinquish our religious rights and duties to Eretz Yisrael and to our fellow Jews who have returned to our homeland ahead of us. Moreover, JDL recognizes modern reality in which a large portion of Jew-hatred manifests as (or is combined with) hatred of Israel. Jews in the Galut are increasingly assailed by anti-Israel Jew-hatred, so we are compelled to defend the Jewish state in the course of general Jewish defense.

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