South Asian Muslim leaders, journalists, influencers, professionals, academics and civil society activists visiting Israel as part of a coexistence initiative share a dinner in Jerusalem, Dec. 3, 2024. Photo: Josh Hasten.
(Dec. 4, 2024 / JNS)
A group of South Asian Muslim leaders, journalists, influencers, professionals, academics and civil society activists are currently in Israel to learn the realities of the situation on the ground, and in support of Jewish/Muslim coexistence, amid soaring anti-Israel sentiment in the Arab and Muslim world in the wake of Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack and the war in Gaza.