Hikmat al-Hijri is attempting to recast the Druze story through a Zionist lens

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Druze leaders across the Levant must reject efforts by Israel and its supporters to subsume their centuries-old identity Hikmat al-Hijri, the spiritual leader of the Druze community in Syria’s Sweida governorate, made a remarkable statement this week. The Druze, he declared, are “an inseparable part” of the state of Israel, “even in terms of faith”. These comments should not be dismissed as just another provocative declaration by a religious leader opposing the government in Damascus. They revea