In the West, Jews and Muslims have always been a part of the Coalition of the Fringe (along with blacks, latinos, homosexuals, and other angry minority groups) against the white Christian core. Jews don’t have much in common with other members of the Fringe aside from fear of a white Christian core discriminating against them. Jews in daily life don’t tend to have deep interactions with blacks and Muslims and latinos (the IQ gap is enormous) but in politics, they have common interests.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles Times reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n Jewish and Muslim activists in the United States are forging alliances like never before in reaction to the president\u2019s rhetoric and action toward Muslim immigrants.<\/p>\n Many Jewish organizations have interpreted Trump\u2019s executive order banning entry by citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries as a call to arms. Jewish delegations turned out en masse for a 10,000-strong demonstration Sunday night in New York. (\u201cGranddaughter of Holocaust survivors standing with refugees, Muslims immigrants,\u201d read one sign.)<\/p>\n Almost every day in New York this last week there was an interfaith conference or prayer service \u2014 involving Christian groups as well as Muslims and Jews \u2014 devoted to the current crisis over predominantly Muslim immigrants and refugees.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have common interests,\u201d said Al Hadj Talib Abdur-Rashid, the imam of the Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood in Harlem. He was one of several Muslim leaders who appeared at a rally in Brooklyn in November after a playground was defaced with pro-Trump graffiti and swastikas. \u201cThe same kind of people who bomb synagogues [also] bomb black churches and now mosques.\u201d<\/p>\n A Muslim-Jewish Advisory Council, made up of business and cultural leaders of both communities, both Democrats and Republicans, was formed days before the election and convened for its first regular meeting Wednesday in Washington to push the government for a coordinated response to hate crimes, up sharply against both Muslims and Jews. <\/p>\n The week after the election, Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League, raised eyebrows when he declared at a meeting in New York that if Trump imposed a Muslim registry, \u201cthis proud Jew will register as Muslim\u2019\u2019 \u2014 a dramatic statement for the head of an organization founded to fight anti-Semitism and protect Jewish identity. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the West, Jews and Muslims have always been a part of the Coalition of the Fringe (along with blacks, latinos, homosexuals, and other angry minority groups) against the white Christian core. Jews don’t have much in common with other … Continue reading