Mike Evans, the founder of the Friends of Zion Heritage Center in Jerusalem, launched a global campaign to mobilize support for Ukraine on Monday.
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The campaign is called "Ukraine Can't Breathe," a slogan that plays off one associated with the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States. Evans said the phrase is used against inequality.
"If ever there was inequality, the Ukrainians are indeed the victims. They need all the support they can get," Evans said. "Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is Jewish and lost relatives in the Holocaust. The entire globe needs to stand up for the Ukrainian people."
Almost half the children of Ukraine, now over 3 million people, are refugees. Evans and his son, Michael Evans II, just returned from Ukraine. It was the second trip in two weeks to deliver 19 tons of food to feed 45,000 people.
"The world must not be silent. Young people can organize marches and fundraisers to show compassion for the suffering people. Millions of them are refugees who have nothing, and those living in Ukraine are suffering unspeakably. They all can't breathe and all their lives matter. That's why I am launching Ukraine Can't Breathe, he said.
