Canadian-Israeli Who Joined Kurds in Fight Against ISIS Returns, May Face Charges
Gill Rosenberg, a Canadian-Israeli woman who traveled to Syria and Iraq to join Kurdish forces in their fight against ISIS last November, returned to Israel late on Sunday. Rosenberg, who made aliyah in 2006, told Galatz (Israeli Army radio) why she decided to leave the war zone and come home: “It was a difficult decision to leave my friends in the fighting but the many of the dynamics of the war have changed and there is much more Iranian involvement. Things changed enough to make it feel it was time to come home, and my home is Israel.”
Rosenberg, 31, told Ynet that she was inspired to protect the Kurds and other minorities in the Middle-East suffering under ISIS because of the legacy of the Holocaust: “As Jews we say never again, as far as a Holocaust or genocide,” she said. “I don’t think there is any difference between Jews and anyone else, never again means never again for anyone.”