Meet Ahmad Jum’a, a 25-year-old Nazareth student who defends Israel during hajj:
Explaining that he is a Muslim Arab with Israeli citizenship often leaves his audience gobsmacked. . . .
Jum’a also encounters anti-Israel views. He holds the Arab media partially to blame for this, for failing to provide an accurate and comprehensive picture of Israeli culture and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“The Arab media always shows negative things about Israel and as a Muslim Arab living inside Israel I want to show a positive side of the country. I tell them there are good things in Israel and that we live side by side with the Jews. There are problems sometimes but the relations with our Jewish neighbors are generally good.”
(Hat tip: LGF)
