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.
Ah, but would they be so quick to defend them if we did? Muslims did collaborate with the Nazis, have no less hatred, and commonly advocate the same general treatment of Jews as did their spiritual kin.
By the words and actions over the past several decades, American Jews have shown they are generally much more aligned with the secular religion of Leftism than they are with Judaism.
Yet do we prohibit Nazis from coming to the US?
Your point is different than mine. Yes we allow them to organize protests and so forth in the U.S. Is anyone rushing to defend their right to? Not really. We let them because the Constitution says we have to. But unlike the Muslims, Nazis aren’t killing people today.
You can’t fix stupid.
I want my foreskin back.
Putz.
The same groups that coddle the pali trash.
We certainly allow them to hold rallies, even in majority Jewish towns, consistent with the rights enumerated in the first amendment.
We didnt and wouldn't have allowed it in war time, is the point. Although our representatives coyly want us to believe we are not at war, they are clearly at war with us and have announced it many times.
If CAIR were to be denied permits to build a 9 acre crematorium with showers these deracinated Jews would protest the obvious discrimination.
I wonder what they would say if someone declared Nazism a religion.
As you've said, Islam and Nazi agree on many things. I doubt they'd feel any differently. Political party or religion, they still view Jews with contempt. Freedom may not always be pretty, but it's the best we've been able to come up with.
These Jewish groups need to listen to the European Jewish groups who say that Jews have no future in Europe due to mass Muslim immigration.
Self hating Jews?
Some people cannot get over being stupid.
I have heard it asked over and over, When will the people [in the United States] learn or wake up? The honest answer is that those whom are still in denial or refuse to believe the intentions of the muslims, won't learn or wake up. They will die in denial that this is actually happening.
In the muslim World , there are only two types of individuals: muslims or true believers as they once, may still do, or infidels. Their book commands them how they are to treat the infidels. To wit} Convert or kill them.
Some Jews born & bred in America are so far gone that they join groups trying to divest from Israel and attack her on many issues along side Lefties and Muslims who are more than happy to have a dumb Jew arguing for them...sad really.
Some Jews are so stupid
Cattle car Jews
They hate us more than the folks who wish to exterminate them
The majority are still stuck at the base of Mt Sinai waiting as ignore Him time and again
Yep
The New Man is their God
It was all foretold
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