Posted on 06/30/2009 2:47:33 AM PDT by forkinsocket
Their names often pay tribute to Iranian culture and their accented speech still sings the unique music of the language, even after decades. They stay on top of Iranian news, culture, sports and trivia, and stay in touch with friends and family living in a country whose distance from Israel is measured in more than geography. The Israeli community of Iranian Jews numbers about 170,000 -- including the first generation of Israeli-born -- and is deeply proud of its roots.
On Tuesday, around 150 members of the community demonstrated in the Israeli city of Holon, home to the country's largest concentration of Iranian Jews. They expressed solidarity with the people of Iran, chanted slogans against the ayatollahs' regime and in favor of Reza Pahlavi, crown prince of Iran at the time of the revolution and today living in exile.
The show of support was organized by Kamal Penhasi, the Iranian-born editor of Shahyad, the only Persian-language magazine published in Israel. "We speak from the throats of the entire Iranian people, whose voices are being silenced by the censorship of the regime that is killing people on the streets …we are part of the Iranian people and want to tell them we are with them. Enough of this regime; the Iranian people deserve their freedom," he said at the demonstration.
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