Muslim human rights activist in need of kidney finds help from Jewish community [Video]

Since Oct. 7, Raheel Raza has become even more outspoken against a global rise in antisemitism.

“When I see what’s happening on our streets and I look at the future of my children and grandchildren, I believe that I have to keep on doing what I’m doing,” said Raza, an anti-racism activist and interfaith discussion leader, the author of Their Jihad, Not My Jihad: A Muslim Canadian Woman Speaks Out and the president of the Council of Muslims Facing Tomorrow.

“And this is an opportunity for me. Yes, I have some restrictions, but I don’t allow them to hold me back. They are a very small drop in the ocean of the work that has to be done.”

Those restrictions are her weekly visits to hospital to receive dialysis.

Raza is in kidney failure.

“It was very hard at first. It was a shock. Just absorbing what it means and what it means for the …