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Jewish peer funds rescue of thousands of Christians threatened by ISIS: Lord Weidenfeld, 95, says project in Syria and Iraq is a way of repaying his 'debt' to British Quakers who helped him flee the Nazis

• Lord Weidenfeld was a penniless five-year-old when British Quakers and other Christians fed and clothed him, and helped him reach the UK in 1938 
• 95-year-old has long felt the urge to repay Christians world for saving him 
• He has now launched a fund to rescue 2,000 Christians from ISIS militants
• Terror group persecutes Christians - raping and massacring worshippers

By JOHN HALL FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 05:23 EST, 16 July 2015 | UPDATED: 05:25 EST, 16 July 2015

 
 
 
 
 

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A Jewish peer who escaped Nazi-occupied Austria with the help of British Christians is funding the rescue of 2,000 Christians from ISIS-held areas in Syria and Iraq as a way of 'repaying his debts'.

Lord Weidenfeld was a penniless five-year-old when British Quakers and other Christians fed and clothed him, and helped him reach the UK in 1938 - just one year before the Second World War.

Following a hugely successful career in publishing, 95-year-old Lord Weidenfeld remains incredibly grateful for the risks taken by those who helped him, and has decided to plough money into a fund to rescue up to 2,000 persecuted Christians living under the rule of ISIS in the Middle East.

Scores of Christians have already been brutally murdered by the terror group and thousands forced to leave ancient Christian communities in north eastern Syria and western Iraq as the Islamic extremists demand they either convert to Islam, pay an extortionate rate of tax or face execution. 

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Honour: Lord Weidenfeld was a penniless five-year-old when British Quakers and other Christians fed and clothed him, and helped him reach the UK in 1938 - just one year before the Second World War

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Killers: Scores of Christians have already been brutally murdered by the terror group (pictured) and thousands forced to leave ancient Christian communities in north eastern Syria and western Iraq

As part of his plan to 'repay' his debts to Christians, Lord Weidenfeld launched the Weidenfeld Safe Havens Fund - a project which last week paid for 150 Syrian Christians to be flown to Poland.

While Lord Weidenfeld - who established the hugely successful Weidenfeld and Nicolson publishing business in 1948 - provides the bulk of the funding for the the scheme, several other Jewish philanthropists have donated money to rescue to Christians. 

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'I had a debt to repay, the peer told The Times.

'It applies to so many of the young people who were on the It was Quakers and other Christian denominations who brought those children to England. It was a very high-minded operation and we Jews should also be thankful and do something for the endangered Christians,' he added.

'ISIS is unprecedented in its primitive savagery compared with the more sophisticated Nazis... When it comes to pure lust for horror and sadism, they are unprecedented. There never was such scum as these people,' Lord Weidenfeld went on to tell the newspaper.

But while many are celebrating Lord Weidenfeld's generosity, Islamic group have criticised the Safe Havens Fund because of its commitment to the rescue of Christians, rather than Muslims.

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Sickening: In February, ISIS released a video showing the beheading of 21 Coptic Christians on a Libyan beach

Defending his decision to focus on the persecuted Christian community, the peer said: 'I can't save the world, but there is a very specific possibility on the Christian side. Let others do what they like for the Muslims.' 

Up to 700,000 of Syria's population of 1.1 millions Christians have already been forced to leave ancient towns and villages as Islamic State militants expanded into the north west of the country.

Those that are captured by the jihadis are subjected the brutal persecution, ranging from extortionate taxation and restrictions of religious worship, to rape, murder and enslavement.

Other groups that have faced the horrors of the Sunni Muslim extremists include members of the Druze and Yazidi minorities, as well as Alawite and Shia Muslims.

Lord Weidenfeld said his project would last for between 12 and 18 months, during which time he hopes to rescue the entire oppressed Christian population from Syria and Iraq.

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Pure evil: Describing ISIS Lord Weidenfeld said: 'When it comes to pure lust for horror and sadism, they are unprecedented. There never was such scum as these people'

The peer said he hopes his project could replicate the work of Sir Nicholas Winton, who died earlier this month aged 106.

Sir Nicholas was a British former stockbroker who helped organise the Kindertransport programme that saved more than 10,000 Jewish children from Nazi persecution from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland prior to the outbreak of the Second World War.

During the interview, Lord Weidenfeld praised the actions of the 'brave Kurds' who have managed to force ISIS jihadis out of the city of Kobane, saying they proved the terror group could be defeated.

He criticised the West for its timid military response to the rise of ISIS, however, saying: 'I am appalled by the lack of action... The lack of desire to fight the enemy, to slay the dragon in his lair.'

ISIS CHILD EXECUTIONER IGNORES PRISONERS' PLEAS TO SPARE THEM... AND SHOOTS THEM IN THE HEAD WITHOUT HESITATING 

Harrowing new footage has emerged of a young boy executing prisoners on the banks of the Tigris River, amid one of the biggest massacres ever committed by Islamic State fanatics.

Filmed during the ISIS killing spree in Tikrit last year, the young boy is seen shooting at least two men in the head after adults have dragged the prisoners before him.

Ignoring prisoners' pleas for mercy, the child grasps a pistol with both hands as he pulls the trigger. The men's limp bodies are then cast into the water, which soon flows red with blood.

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The child executioner, who appears to be no older than 12, prepares to shoot the bent over prisoner

Images of the child executioner are just a small part of a graphic 22minute-long video released by the jihadis at the weekend.

It was recorded during the Speicher massacre last year - an atrocity which left an estimated 1,700 dead and ranks among the worst to have occurred in Iraq over the past decade.

Young men are seen falling from trucks and pleading for their lives before being lay down in shallow graves and sprayed with bullets.

Others are executed individually as the killings continue into the night and an excavator is required to shift piles of bodies.

In fact, the wholesale slaughter was so vast the graves used to bury the victims could be seen from space.

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A group of Iraqi military cadets beg for their lives moments before being killed and thrown into the river

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Ten Year Old Shows Sickness Of ISIS

ISIS Releases Video of Child Beheading Syrian Soldier

By Raphael Poch July 22, 2015 , 8:30 am

“…And when you make your sons pass through the fire you defile yourselves with all your idols, even until this day…” (Ezekiel 20:31)

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Screenshot from the video.

ISIS has caused shockwaves of anger around the world once again with a new video showing a young boy beheading a Syrian soldier.

The viral video has torn up the internet via social and mainstream media outlets and has once against exuded the defamation and horror that has become characteristic of the radical Islamist terror group.

The footage released by the extremist group depicts a boy, who appears to be under ten years of age, cutting the throat of a Syrian soldier. The boy then decapitates the head from the body before finally placing the head back on the corpse.

Throughout the video, the soldier appears terrified. What is most shocking about the video is the unemotional state of the young boy.

Some experts have claimed that the boy has obviously killed before and was likely forcibly dosed up on hard drugs such as cocaine or amphetamines before committing the brutal murder.

This is not the first time that ISIS has used child killers. Footage of the Speicher massacre, which left over 1,700 dead in Iraq last year, shows a young boy shooting victims in the head on the banks of the Tigris River. During the 22-minute video, so many people were killed by the banks of the river that the river literally flowed red with blood.

Reports from the Middle East indicate that ISIS is forcing captured Yazidi boys under the age of 16 to participate in “retraining” camps and to learn how to become Jihadi fighters. The youth are forcibly converted to Islam from their ancient tradition and are then taught how to kill and behead. To toughen up the youth, the boys are beaten continuously.

In an interview with the Associated Press, one young escapee, renamed Yahya by his ISIS captors, revealed that the point of the Jihadi camps is to raise the next generation of ISIS killers. Each year, approximately 1,600 boys graduate from the camps to become fighters for ISIS.

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The most current ISIS “viral video” as well as many previous Jihadi videos showing atrocities committed in Syria, Libya, and Iraq, have not only won the group international condemnation, but also hosts of supporters and would be members in foreign countries across the globe. Seemingly no country, the world over is immune. Not even Israel.

In addition to threatening leaflets spread by ISIS supporters on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem last month, ISIS supporters in Gaza recently blew up five cars belonging to high placed members of the Hamas movement, thereby declaring war in the Strip outright.

Hamas blamed last month’s rocket fire from Gaza on ISIS supporters as well, claiming that they were trying to stir up conflict between Hamas and Israel.

ISIS supporters have also reared their heads in other countries throughout the Middle East. Saudi Arabia recently arrested over 400 suspected ISIS collaborators who were accused of numerous shooting and bombing attacks over the past year.

On Monday, Turkey was attacked for the first time by an ISIS suicide bomber. The terrorist killed an estimated 28 people and injured scores of others. The attack shocked Turkey, as it is the first of its kind on Turkish soil.

While the videos have irked the West and goaded the largest group of Shiite Muslims in Iraq to volunteer to fight ISIS, the leader of the terror movement, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, has given orders to ban the filming of any additional execution videos, something which has caused some division among the ranks of ISIS followers.

Read more at http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/45590/isis-video-child-beheader-sends-shockwaves-across-world-terror-watch/#RDACVf20pggd1P7S.99