I read the rabbi’s essay below and there’s not a sentence about the benefits to the goyim of admitting Jews to their country. What is good for America is not even a consideration. The rabbi could care less about non-Jewish interests, which is fine. Be ethnocentric. That’s healthy. What’s interesting is that he feels no need to mention non-Jewish interests in his argument published in the Washington Post. Who cares about the goyim! They don’t rate any concern. White people have no legitimate group interests.
For minorities in the Western world today, they don’t even have to consider the interests of the majority population while the majority is not allowed to consider their own racial interests.
I happen to think that more Ashkenazi Jews will be an asset for almost any country because they will raise the average IQ.
For several reasons, Americans have an obligation to answer this call. For one, as a superpower, the United States carries a certain moral authority. If we take a leadership role in protecting French Jewry, it will send a message to European countries that we do not have patience for their excuses about being unable to provide proper protection for their Jewish citizens.
Furthermore, the United States must not make the same mistakes it has made in the past. Many Jews were denied entry into this country during the darkest days of World War II and were eventually murdered in Europe. In 1939, for example, the United States turned away the MS St. Louis, an ocean liner carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees from Germany, only to have them return to Europe where many perished in the Holocaust. Faced with a chance today to save a group of Jews that has asked for our help, we should welcome them as quickly and as warmly as we can.
The American Jewish community must make it a priority to help Jews in France — and other European communities facing resurgent anti-Semitism. We should use existing immigration law to bring French Jews to the United States on a case-by-case basis. For example, in addition to student visas, we should be exploring H-1B visas for highly skilled workers, J-1 visas for people with medical training and E-B5 visas for people able to invest money in the United States. A rabbinical school in the Bronx, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, is already doing this: The school is actively recruiting French students. The rest of the Jewish community should immediately follow suit and invest more resources into helping French Jews come to the United States.
But to the extent that existing legal avenues do not provide the answer for many of France’s endangered Jews, policymakers must step in to fill the void. First, Congress should reauthorize the Lautenberg amendment, which was passed in 1989 to help Jews emigrate from the former Soviet Union to the United States, with updates to address the current crisis. Other possibilities of legislative reform are being explored by the National Capital Jewish Law Center, which I founded in 2013. Leadership on this issue must begin with President Obama, but it should be a bipartisan effort as well.
The heinous acts against Charlie Hebdo and the kosher supermarket may lead to a dramatic shift in how France confronts the growing problem of terrorism. The people of France are strong and resilient, and have rallied to the defense of their Jewish citizens. It is certainly the fervent prayer of Jews around the world that this strong support remains in place. But the Jews of France, who know their country best, are voting with their feet. They have called upon us for help, and we in the United States must answer their call.
