Charity parachute jump in aid of alleviating the situation in Israel and the Palestinian Territories

[lethargic_man]

The news from Israel recently is depressing; so depressing I'm going to throw myself out of a 'plane.[1]

Yes, I'm doing a parachute jump for charity, in aid of alleviating the human misery in Israel and the Palestinian Terrorities caused by the current war; please donate and help me reach my target. Half the proceeds will go to Magen David Adom, the Israeli equivalent of the Red Cross. Because the Israelis are not the only ones suffering in the current conflict, I wanted to do something to help out the Palestinians as well. Since I was not able to find an equivalent Palestinian charity that is not engaging in anti-Israel politicising at best, or complicit in terrorism at worst[2], I have chosen as my second charity B'Tselem[3], an Israeli NGO which fights human rights abuses in the Occupied Terrorities (whether by the occupying power or the PA). Donations to B'Tselem will be funnelled via the New Israel Fund, since direct donations to B'Tselem, as a non-UK charity, is not supported by Virgin Money Giving.

Please note that this is a non-political fundraising event; I am trying here to help people on both sides of the conflict. If you disagree with my allocation of funds (and even I recognise that it's not ideal), I invite you to donate half the amount you would have liked to here, and give the other half to a further non-political, non-violence-promulgating charity of your selection.

By the time the jump happens, I hope the war will be long over; however the fundraising hole it has caused will take a long time to backfill, and donations will still be necessary.

The jump will be at the London Parachute School near Reading; you're invited to come along and watch. Indeed, anyone else as mishugge as me is invited to join in and keep me company.

Lastly, please note that Virgin Money Giving is a not for profit organisation and will claim gift aid on a charity's behalf where the donor is eligible for this. I appreciate your support, and thank you for any donations.

[1] This is actually an old resolution of mine. When I was an undergraduate, for a short while there was an society within J-Soc called DJS—Dangerous Jewish Society—with whom I signed up to do a charity parachute jump. Society founder Michael Jaeger and I got a lift down to London with a third meshuggine, who was to drive us all to the airfield early the following morning, but the car-owner got cold feet (he was concerned the insurance would not pay enough in the event of his death) and pulled out, leaving the other two of us with no way to get to the airfield on time. Now's the time to right that wrong.

[2] Not an exaggeration. See, for example, here.

[3] Homepage; see also their Wikipedia entry.

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Comments

War in Israel

[(Anonymous)]

It is terrible what is happening here. Most of the world still condemns Israel even though it is Hamas doing the damage to their own people and posting horrible photos of the tragedies in Syria.


Don't know if I was able to contact you before, so forgive me if I already found a way to answer your post. Max Krantz was born in Tarnov, Galicia, Austria. His father was Osias Kranz. I haven't been able to find out any other information on Osaias Kranz to know where he or his ancestors were born, so I don't know if there could be a connection.

Re: War in Israel

[lethargic_man]

Thank you for your comment. Since you didn't provide me with any contact information (or even your name!), I am replying here.

I'm afraid that without more information, there's no way to connect your Kranzes to my Krantzes: they may be related, but (short of getting yourself genetically analysed at Family Tree DNA as I did) there's no way to prove it.