Avi Lipkin

Dennis "Avi" Lipkin (* 1949 in Flushing , New York ) is a former Israeli military and politician who has been an anti- Islam activist around the world for years .

Life

Lipkin grew up in New York State, became a supporter of revisionist-Zionist beliefs at an early age and immigrated to Israel in 1968 at the age of 19. He studied Sovietology, Hispanic Studies and Latin American Studies in New York and at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (graduating there in 1973). Between 1972 and 1989 he worked with varying degrees of intensity for the IDF as an officer (last rank major ) and served, among other things, as a military spokesman and in the communications department. At the same time he worked from Jerusalem as a businessman , including a real estate agent , in various fields.

In 1988 he was part of the successful Likud campaign team for a few months, translating campaign material into English and Spanish . From 1989 to 1990 he worked in the news department of the press office of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Shamir . In 1990 he began lecturing in Christian churches and synagogues in the USA and appeared on radio and television programs.

From 1991 to 1993 he completed a supplementary course at a Jewish theological seminar in order to devote himself entirely to his lecturing activities from 1994 onwards. According to his own statements, he has so far given over 500 lectures in churches and synagogues in the USA, Canada , Mexico , Great Britain , Norway , Finland , the Netherlands , Belgium , Switzerland , Greece and Israel. He also appeared - again by his own account - on hundreds of radio and TV programs around the world and proclaimed his anti-Islam messages there.

Lipkin has written five books so far, the first three under the pseudonym Victor Mordecai for security reasons, the other under his real name. The fourth book (2006) is also intended to advance his Knesset candidacy for the Judeo-Christian party Gush Hatanachi , which Lipkin founded. Gusch Hatanachi has been registered since 2018 and can apply for the Knesset - by the end of 2019 at the latest.

Immediately before the Swiss minaret initiative at the end of 2009, Lipkin was traveling all over Switzerland for several months to get as large a number of people as possible to accept the initiative, ie to ban the construction of minarets. In a speech he described Islam as a " psychosis ", compared Allah to Satan and called for a ban on Islam. For these statements he was sentenced to a conditional fine of 20 daily rates of 50 francs and a fine of 300 francs for racial discrimination and disruption of freedom of religion and worship .

family

Lipkin is married to Rachel, a Jewish Egyptian who emigrated to Israel in 1969 and has worked for Israeli radio for nearly three decades, analyzing and editing Arabic-language radio and TV programs. Lipkin and his wife have two sons (Aaron and Jacob) and eight grandchildren (2006).

Works

• Victor Mordecai, Is Fanatic Islam a Global Threat? , Jerusalem 1997 (German 1997, English 1998)
• Victor Mordecai, Christian Revival for Israel's Survival , 1999
• Victor Mordecai, Islamic Threat Updates Almanac , 2003
• Dennis "Avi" Lipkin, Israel's Bible Bloc , 2006
• Dennis Avi Lipkin, Islam Prophesied In Genesis , 2010

Individual evidence

1. ^ Elisabeth Hausen: Jewish-Christian Party: "God plans great things" . In: Israelnetz Magazin . No. 6 , 2018, p. 12 ( PDF [accessed December 10, 2018]).
2. ↑ Anti-Minaret Initiative: Israeli convicted of racial discrimination in: Aargauer Zeitung of January 16, 2011. Accessed October 2, 2018.

Web links

• Avi Lipkins website