Ancestor Quote by Phyllis Chesler

Jews have been living in Jerusalem way before British people were living in London.

— Naftali Bennett

For over 1,700 years, the Jews have been bewailing their sad fate in that they have been exiled from their homeland, as they call…

— Benjamin Franklin

The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself,…

— Jonathan Sacks

I'm Jewish. That's all. So I am in exile all the time. Wherever we go, we are in exile. Even in Israel, we are…

— Chantal Akerman

Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.

— Billy Graham

Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the Jewish people, and the modern presence there just cements this.

— Erin O'Toole

Dispersed as the Jews are, they still form one nation, foreign to the land they live in.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Jews have been in Egypt since Biblical times, and Alexandria had once been, at least partially, a Jewish city.

— Meir Kahane

Jerusalem doesn't belong only to Israelis and Palestinians, Muslims and Jews, but to the world.

— A. B. Yehoshua

Jerusalem is old, Jerusalem is new, Jerusalem can hold Moslem, Christian, Jew.

— Don McLean

“Jews would eventually be expelled from France in 1394 and Spain in 1492, having already been expelled from England in 1290.”

— Christopher Lascelles