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Category Archives: Immigration
Refugees in Israel Fear They Could All Be Targets of Next Lynch Mob
To survive as a civilization, you have to exclude others, otherwise you get swamped. Israel is making the tough decisions it has to to survive. Will America and Europe get real? Israel does not need any more low-IQ non-Jews in … Continue reading
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What Syria’s refugees think about Israel might surprise you
Jews and Muslims are antagonists. Why would you expect anything else? Imagine looking at the world if your IQ was 83. You’d be suspicious and surly too and prone to conspiracy theories. Do you think Europe and America and Australia … Continue reading
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NYC mayor urges Syrian Jews to empathize with refugees
Who wants to empathize with Americans? I suspect that Syrian Jews in America don’t feel great ties to Syria. The country was never that wonderful to them. REPORT: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in a Sabbath address to … Continue reading
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Refugees In Israel
From the African Refugee Development Center: Israel is a reluctant host to 46,437 African asylum seekers predominantly from Eritrea (73%) and Sudan (19%) and a small minority (8%) arriving from several other African countries. The state policy toward asylum seekers … Continue reading
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Afghan Migrant Brutally Raped And Burnt To Death Young European Because She Wanted To Break Up
From Breitbart: An Afghan migrant has been sentenced to life imprisonment in Finland for brutally murdering a teenage lover ten years his junior because she didn’t want to continue the relationship. The 17-year-old Finnish girl had only dated Ramin Azimi … Continue reading
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Why isn’t Israel accepting more refugees?
Despite considerable pressure from outside and in, Israel’s government stands firm in its commitment to take no Syrian refugees. All nationalists should admire Israel’s dedication to its best interests. The Jewish state is an ethno-state, perhaps the most successful ethno-state … Continue reading
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Why Is AIPAC Silent on Syrian Refugees?
Like much of America, Jewish organizations have become increasingly inward and tribal over the past 40 years. Peter Beinart writes: Many American Jewish groups balance the Holocaust’s tribal and universal lessons. The most powerful one doesn’t even try. The last … Continue reading
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Why Russian-Jewish Refugees are Different From Syrian Refugees
Yuri Kruman writes: In a recent op-ed entitled “I’m a Russian-born American Jew. My people’s rejection of Syrian refugees breaks my heart,” Ilya Lozovsky slanderously paints all Russian Jews as fascist hypocrites for failing to join his crusade to resettle … Continue reading
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Israel Shows Us How To Deal With Unwanted Refugees
Israel is a light unto the nations with its serious commitment to its survival. Part of that commitment means keeping out people who are incompatible with a Jewish state. Would that America was similarly pragmatic. Black Africans are incompatible with … Continue reading
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Senate Dems meet with Jewish leaders, talk Iran and refugees
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Senate Democrats meeting with Jewish organizational leaders pledged to police the Iran nuclear deal and applauded Jewish backing for resettling Syrian refugees… The senators were moved by presentations on the refugee crisis by Mark Hetfield, the president … Continue reading
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