Posted on 12/08/2015 4:37:01 AM PST by VitacoreVision
Jewish groups blasted Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for his proposal to block all Muslims from entering the United States.
"A plan that singles out Muslims and denies them entry to the U.S. based on their religion is deeply offensive and runs contrary to our nation's deepest values," the Anti-Defamation League said in a statement Monday evening, hours after Trump, a real estate billionaire and reality TV star, issued his call.
"In the Jewish community, we know all too well what can happen when a particular religious group is singled out for stereotyping and scapegoating," Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL's CEO said. "We also know that this country must not give into fear by turning its back on its fundamental values, even at a time of great crisis."
The American Jewish Committee's director of policy, Jason Isaacson, noted the timing of Trump's statement, which called for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United Statee," coincident with the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.
"As Jews who are now observing Hanukkah, a holiday that celebrates a small religious minority's right to live unmolested, we are deeply disturbed by the nativist racism inherent in the candidate's latest remarks," Isaacson said. "You don't need to go back to the Hanukkah story to see the horrific results of religious persecution; religious stereotyping of this sort has been tried often, inevitably with disastrous results."
Trump in his press release alluded to the massacre in San Bernardino, Calif., last week of 14 people by a couple apparently radicalized by the Islamic State terrorist group.
“Without looking at the various polling data, it is obvious to anybody the hatred is beyond comprehension," he said." Where this hatred comes from and why we will have to determine. Until we are able to determine and understand this problem and the dangerous threat it poses, our country cannot be the victims of horrendous attacks by people that believe only in Jihad, and have no sense of reason or respect for human life."
Other Jewish groups condemning the comments included J Street, Bend the Arc, the National Jewish Democratic Council, the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism and JAC, a Jewish political action committee.
The last resort of a scoundrel.
If the Jews wanna come here and help destroy this country from within they can stay out as well.
That is why Israel has a wall.
Trump should also put a million dollar reward for Al Beker Al Baghdadi head. Maybe others would like to contribute to this—If a bomb gets the leader the money fould be spent on Wounded warriors.
“Jewish groups blasted Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for his proposal to block all Muslims from entering the United States.”
Stuck on stupid is no way to go through life.
The problem with Islam, is that you cut off one head, and two take its place—like the mythical Hydra.
I am glad Trump speaks about the abysmal treatment of our vets by the VA—this Administration and this Congress are complicit in veticide.(I just coined that word!)
This the mentality that permitted them to walk into “the showers” with no resistance. Liberalism is mental disorder.
wait til ISIS hits a Jewish school and we will se how many democrats will vote Turmp.
“EJL”—that is apt. I have noticed that for a long time, that they don’t even side with Israel.
You will find almost universal support for Israel in evangelical churches, who are Gentiles.
God said your people are the apple of His eye.
that’s good enough for me.
Nah, they'd just blame Trump.
Because these Jewish groups want Islamofascists to flood our country?
Why would anyone — who claims to love their country — welcome those who have sworn to destroy it?
And if anyone thinks that the 2% of “peaceful Muslims” are fine and decent people, their silence in condemning the murderous 98% is deafening.
They have done nothing to help us fight terrorists.
“wait til ISIS hits a Jewish school and we will se how many democrats will vote Turmp.”
I wrote a paper for my MBA on Israeli corporate politics. There is much PhD level work on the subject because it is notoriously dangerous. There are recorded instances where employees murdered their boss so they could take his job. The reason for this is that the Israelis see so much lethal, bloody violence in their ordinary lives that it translates to the corporate environment.
I mention this to support the idea that they see so much violence that an attack at a school would be just another event to the liberals. It won’t be their children, who attend private schools or schools in neighborhoods where such violence is unlikely. Even if it does occur to them it will be the fault of Republicans or Bush or Global Warming. Liberals see a different world and what we see in common they see through liberal-colored lenses.
I agree with Trump, but only because banning Muslims would be a subset of shutting down the borders to all immigration, both illegal and legal, until we get our house in order and only allow in immigrants that we need, when we need them, and no more.
It is not our obligation to provide a hostel for all the world’s wanderers.
It is not our responsibility to “save the world.”
America first.
Many parts of Europe are no longer safe, yet they want the same thing to happen here? Wow.
I wonder what they would say if someone declared Nazism a religion.
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Exactly!!!
Maybe ban the Jews too if they favor Muslims.
Hey ADL members, when will that muslim family living down the street or that muslim guy living 2 blocks over or that muslim family coming in as Syrian refugees, wake up one morning and become the latest San Bernardino shooters? Out of the clear blue and become radicalized terrorists. It has happened and will continue. Sharia law teaches that they ell kill all the Jewish people. Get a brain people.
So why would you let in all Germans when you have no idea how many are Nazis?
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