Forward.com: “Rabbi Steve Gutow is outgoing president of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs. This op-ed is excerpted from his keynote address October 11 to the JCPA Jewish Community Town Hall.”
Our ethics and our texts and our experiences require us to worry about the poor; to demand that Darfuris, Yazidis and Royhingas not be killed and raped and moved from their homes; to insist that immigrants coming to this country as “the other” not be left to die in their oppressive homelands but have a chance here; and to ensure that the environment God gave us not be destroyed.
What about the rights of Europeans to maintain their own cultures? What about gentile rights? Don’t they have a right to determine their own destiny free of interference by outsiders? Don’t they deserve the same ethno-state as Israel? Why should the English and the French and the Australians and the Americans absorb African and Muslim refugees?
