We're so hard-up for migrants that we tried importing climate refugees from the other side of the planet, arming them, and sending them out to butcher Palestinians on our behalf. Didn't work. Those migrant mercenaries are dead now. But I hope this clears up which one of us truly supports native peoples and which one just wants to do genocide. You don't see Gaza bringing in First Nations People to do their bag carrying.
The community was founded in 1966 by a local man of Trujillo named Segundo Villanueva, who began studying Judaism at the age of twelve in 1939, while living in the city of Cajamarca. Villanueva founded a religious group called Israel de Dios ("Israel of God") that followed Jewish practices as described in the Hebrew Bible. In 1967, Villanueva took 19 families of his movement to settle in the Peruvian Amazon near Iquitos, forming a settlement called Hebrón.
One of my best friends in high school was a Peruvian-Jewish guy which I thought was an odd combination. He ended up going to [redacted top 3 college] and I always admired him.
Just checked that Wikipedia article's see also, it was an imperialism thing probably