TIMES OF ISRAEL
by Anthony Weiss and Miriam Moster
September 9, 2014
21-year-old’s support for Israel not only cuts against arguments of Students for Justice in Palestine, but also against much black civil rights rhetoric
Growing up in New Orleans, Chloe Valdary kept kosher, studied the Jewish Bible and celebrated Jewish holidays with festive meals. In recent years she has become an outspoken pro-Israel campus activist, contributing regularly to the Jewish press, and speaking and posting widely about the merits of the Jewish state on social media.
But the senior at the University of New Orleans is not Jewish. She is Christian — a member of the Intercontinental Church of God, whose adherents revere the Hebrew Bible and follow the Jewish calendar — and she is black.
In July, Valdary, 21, garnered widespread attention for a Tablet piece in which she accused pro-Palestinian activists of misappropriating the rhetoric of the black civil rights movement. In the piece, titled “To the Students for Justice in Palestine, a Letter From an Angry Black Woman,” Valdary addressed the campus group……
On Chloe’s Facebook page : This is what a ZIONIST looks like.
ArchitectGuy on Israel 