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Progressive Rabbi Wants To Reframe Immigration Discussion Away From Costs & Benefits To Host Country

Posted on September 7, 2015 by Luke Ford

From the rabbi’s blog: “Rabbi Neil Janes is Director of the Lyons Institute and member of the rabbinic team of West London Synagogue. He is working towards a PhD in Jewish Thought through Haifa University. Lecturer at the Leo Baeck College in Rabbinic Literature and adjunct faculty member of Hebrew College, Boston where he instructs about teaching rabbinic literature. He also has a BA in Psychology and Education from Cardiff University. A trustee of the British Friends of Leo Baeck Education Centre, Haifa. He is a leading voice for progressive Judaism in the UK, he has appeared on radio, television and in the press.”

Rabbi Janes writes:

We need to reframe our conversations about refuge, sanctuary, asylum. I’m desperate for a discourse that is not reductive of human life to the financial cost to our economy. Put like that, what our councils and our government (successive governments really) bank on is that the issue of refugees is so sufficiently toxic and the financial self-interest so sufficiently strong that any real change in the way that they speak about individuals seeking safety is political suicide.
We must find new ways of discussing the issues. One that does not lose sight of the human plight.
We need to demand that our politicians take brave decisions to protect the fragile human lives that are endangered. That means a readjustment – not least to say in spite of pressures on our infrastructures, we will house the vulnerable and protect them. We will give them all we can for a new lease of life.
But more than that I ask – are we personally willing to step up, to offer people a home in our home? Can we find the time, resources and interest to save people who are different to us. Can we personally offer sanctuary in our homes, even whilst we offer a societal sanctuary.

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Japan Doesn’t Want Refugees

Posted on September 7, 2015 by Luke Ford

It’s a shame that Western nations are not as homogenous as Japan.

Eamon Fingleton writes: As Third World migration increasingly dominates the headlines in the European Union and the United States, the rich nations of East Asia have been keeping heads their down. With good reason. True to their ultra-strict immigration policies, they have been admitting virtually no refugees.

South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and mainland China are at one in shunning almost all asylum seekers, no matter how deserving they may be. But even by East Asian standards, Japan is remarkably stone-hearted. It accepted a mere six asylum seekers in 2013 and eleven in 2014. Its admission rate seems particularly remarkable when compared with Australia’s. Australia after all is remote from the sources of the refugee problem. By contrast many troubled nations – Vietnam, Cambodia, and Burma, for instance – are relatively speaking in Japan’s backyard. Yet Australia last year granted visas to 6,501 refugees.

For those who are keeping score, the remarkable thing is how successfully Japan has escaped international censure. Not to put too fine a point on it, Japan is the Teflon nation of global diplomacy. Nothing seems to stick. No matter how disappointingly it falls short of international expectations, it is rarely held to account.

The pattern was set long ago in trade policy. Already by the early 1970s, Japan had become notorious for constantly promising market opening measures that never materialized. Yet this did nothing to discourage American and European officials from negotiating further trade treaties that were in their time declared to represent a definitive end to Japanese mercantilism.

In Japanese refugee policy as in trade, a key factor is a little-noticed genius for public relations. But this is for the most part not normal public relations. Rather, the Japanese establishment pursues the sort of negative strategy that Howard Hughes adopted when he spent millions keeping his name out of the papers. On the one hand Japan ensures that its true policies remain as little publicized as possible; on the other it promotes various forms of tokenism to spike the guns of potential critics.

It helps that most Tokyo-based foreign correspondents are in the establishment’s pocket. This applies in particular to those who have lived long term in Japan. Meanwhile for the most part more recent arrivals are so pole-axed by culture shock that they have to be babysat at all times by their research assistants (almost all of whom can be assumed to be on message in serving Japan’s national agenda).

…Another factor is believed to be a concern to avoid diluting Japan’s societal homogeneity. Again Japanese leaders rarely if ever comment frankly but it can be assumed that in common with their counterparts elsewhere in East Asia they hold that a nation works best when it is least fractured by religious, linguistic, and ethnic differences.

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Rabbis Helping Refugees

Posted on September 6, 2015 by Luke Ford

For self-interested reasons, Jews in Europe and America have often sided with the fringe against the core (Steve Sailer).

Every Major American Jewish Organization Including The Orthodox Union And Agudath Israel Supports Immigration Amnesty.

Israel is run to benefit the majority of its citizens — the Jews. From the perspective of Jewish law, there is no room for non-Jewish citizenship in Israel and a Gentile should not be appointed to any leadership position, not even over water carriers.

I put “Rabbi refugees” (without quotes) into Google News to see what would come up:

Former UK Chief Rabbi Calls for ‘Generosity’ Towards Refugees
Haaretz-14 hours ago
Former British chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks has called on the European Union to assist the refugees currently flooding the continent, writing that …
Story image for rabbi refugees from The Guardian
Refugee crisis: ‘Love the stranger because you were once strangers …
The Guardian-21 hours ago
The influx of refugees overwhelming parts of Europe is a massive crisis, but it is at just … Jonathan Sacks was chief rabbi from 1991 to 2013.
Love the Stranger Because You Were Once Strangers
Arutz Sheva-8 hours ago
Explore in depth (3 more articles)
Rabbi Yuval Cherlow: Israel Can Take in Some Syrian Refugees
Arutz Sheva-19 hours ago
Leader of the Tzohar rabbinical organization and member of the Helsinki Ethics Committee, Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, said on Sunday morning that …
Rabbi Yuval Cherlow: Israel Can Take in Some Syrian Refugees
Arutz Sheva-19 hours ago
Leader of the Tzohar rabbinical organization and member of the Helsinki Ethics Committee, Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, said on Sunday morning that …
Story image for rabbi refugees from The Guardian
UK must emulate Kindertransport to aid refugee crisis, says Lord …
The Guardian-Sep 3, 2015
UK must emulate Kindertransport to aid refugee crisis, says Lord … the humanitarian crisis engulfing Europe, the former chief rabbi has said.
Lord Sacks urges Britain to take in 10000 refugees in a …
International-Jewish Chronicle-Sep 4, 2015
Explore in depth (10 more articles)
Story image for rabbi refugees from Jewish Chronicle
Rabbi Mirvis promises ‘special initiative’ from community to help …
Jewish Chronicle-Sep 4, 2015
Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has called on the Jewish community to act “positively” to alleviate the plight of refugees in Europe. “Right now there …
Story image for rabbi refugees from Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS
Donetsk rabbi opens summer camp for Ukrainian war refugees
Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS-Aug 9, 2015
Pinchas Vishedsky, the refugee rabbi of the separatist stronghold of Donetsk, has organized a free summer camp for internally displaced Jews …
Story image for rabbi refugees from New York Times
Treatment of Migrants Evokes Memories of Europe’s Darkest Hour
New York Times-Sep 4, 2015
Rabbi Frolich was especially struck by the lies used to manipulate the … for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Story image for rabbi refugees from The Times of Israel
PM: Israel not indifferent, but ‘too small’ to take in refugees
The Times of Israel-18 hours ago
Refugees flash victory signs and wipe away tears as they arrive at the main train … Meanwhile, Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, a senior member of the …
Story image for rabbi refugees from RFI
Thousands stage pro-migrant rallies as French politicians debate …
RFI-16 hours ago
The demonstrations were part of a wave of sympathy for refugees from … France’s Chief Rabbi Haïm Korsia called for a complete change in …
How we can help Syrian refugees: compassionate Londoners …
Evening Standard-Sep 4, 2015
The Syrian toddler is one of more than 2,600 refugees who have drowned … station to mark it,” says Rebecca Birk, a rabbi at the synagogue.

I can find no results of rabbis speaking out for the necessity of Gentiles to maintain their culture and cohesion by resisting this immigrant onslaught just as Israel’s government is protecting the Jewish state (“Netanyahu says Jewish state must protect itself from influx of ‘illegal immigrants and perpetrators of terrorism’”). Why shouldn’t Gentile nations protect themselves from illegal immigrants and perpetrators of terrorism?

From my perusal of the news, it appears that no rabbis publicly side with the core (European Christians) against the fringe (blacks, asians, homosexuals, trannies, Muslims, etc). If the core ever gets its act together, they might do something very nasty in retaliation for organized Jewry siding with the fringe against the core. A whole lot of Jews may be thrown into a death pit for the destabilizing actions of its leaders against the ethnic majority.

I can find only one example of a rabbi calling for Israel to take in Syrian refugees.

The rabbis instead line up on the side of Jews maintaining their borders and cohesion and strength while pushing for multi-culturalism and open borders for the goyim.

It is completely against Israel’s interests to take in Muslims who hate it just as it is equally against Europe’s interests to take in Muslims who hate it.

Here are some of the more egregious examples of rabbis requesting Europe to commit suicide:

* “Around the [75th] anniversary of Kindertransport, lots of us went to Liverpool Street station to mark it,” says Rebecca Birk, a rabbi at the synagogue. “Many of my members owe the survival of relatives to the kindness of people in offering them shelter. We felt it was a Jewish imperative to work with this country, which has been fantastic in the past in recognising the benefits of opening its doors, to help them.”

* From The Independent:

Jewish community leaders have written to David Cameron to ask him to reconsider Britain’s policy on refugees and migrants trying to reach the UK from northern France.
Senior rabbis including Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner and Rabbi Herschel Gluck OBE have signed the letter, which says that Jewish “experience as refugees is not so distant that we’ve forgotten what it’s like to be demonised for seeking safety”.
The religious leaders express “dismay” at the Government’s response to the situation and its characterisation of British residents as “victims”.
The letter was organised by the Jewish Council for Racial Equality.
“The Jewish refugee experience is still a vivid memory for many in our community,” said Dr Edie Friedman, the council’s chief.
“The Government’s failure to even consider helping those fleeing conflict and persecution today shames us as a nation. Rather than shut ourselves off from the world, it is vitally important that we work with the rest of Europe to create safe and legal routes for refugees to claim asylum.”
Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg, Senior Rabbi of Masorti Judaism UK added: “The Torah teaches that God loves the refugee and stranger, ‘giving them bread and clothing’. Can we then do any less?”

Nowhere in this article do the rabbis call for Israel to take in more such refugees. Let the goyim commit suicide, Jews want to live.

I wonder how many Europeans are waking up to the fact that a number of rabbis want to swamp them with unwanted refugees?

* Rabbi Joshua Stanton writes:

The issue of immigration is capturing heightened attention around the world. A wave of immigrants, including many refugees from Syria, Iraq, and Libya, is finding its way through the Balkans into Europe. Others are crossing the Mediterranean in rickety boats, which all too often sink. In Austria, more than 70 bodies of dead immigrants were found in the back of a truck.
In the United States, Donald Trump is seizing headlines with plans to deport illegal immigrants, and other presidential hopefuls are responding by redoubling their own rhetoric or decrying his plans. In a time of economic uncertainty, it is not surprising that immigration has become such a symbolically potent issue for “haves” who likely fear becoming “have-nots.” Many of us privileged to live in developed countries fear the prospects of being “overrun” by immigrants who could weigh down our economies — even when robust studies actually show just how much immigrants add to our standards of living. We may find ourselves motivated by fear rather than facts, by subconscious desires rather than conscious good will.
Immigrants have come to symbolize social change. In times of great insecurity and flux, it is easy to fall prey to the classic logical fallacy post hoc ergo propter hoc, the idea that because one event takes place after another, it was caused by the other. Even though immigration is taking place in some regions at an unprecedented rate, it is entering our consciousness even faster, because we are looking for simple reasons to explain very complicated trends. Immigrants are vulnerable targets, and blaming them enables us to avoid addressing even more complex issues (like globalization, currency exchange rates, prison reform, gun violence prevention, educational policy, social welfare policy, and taxation).
The Torah takes a radical stand on immigration — and compels us to take a radical stand as well. We cannot simply judge immigrants. We must in a sense become them for a moment, through ritual practice, so that we can more fully feel their pain and comprehend our own privilege. Though obviously not a position paper on contemporary immigration policy, the Torah is most certainly a call to empathy — and to awareness of how easy it is to become callous to the plight of those so fearful that they are willing to do anything to flee their countries of origin.

Here is the position of Agudath Israel: “Finally, in the area of immigration, Agudath Israel urges that American borders continue to be open to Jewish and other refugees who seek to come to the United States after escaping from oppressive political environments. The United States is a nation of immigrants and has long been distinguished by its generosity toward refugees from all across the globe. It is essential that such generosity continue to be maintained in today’s era of international volatil ity. Agudath Israel accordingly opposes any efforts to impose caps or quotas on refugees seeking safe haven in the United States. Agudath Israel further supports the provision of welfare benefits to needy non-citizen immigrants.”

By contrast, Rabbi Mayer Schiller said in 1999: “The State of Israel poses a problem for Jews living in the diaspora. A Jew living in America, France or England but yet somehow says I am an Israeli or a Zionist, that creates a tremendous amount of tension. Herzl envisioned Zionism as Jews leaving Gentile nations and going to live in Israel, not staying in France and England and saying I am a Zionist. Jews living in America, England, France, etc, have three moral possibilities: They can be loyal citizens, they can be Zionists which means to leave [for Israel] or they can adopt the Neterui Karta position of non-involvement in the affairs of the nations.”

Europe must defend itself and its heritage by all means necessary, even if it takes writing numbers on the arms of immigrants prior to shipping them off by trains. Jews don’t constrain themselves from doing what they need to do to preserve their own people by memories of those Jews who assisted in communist genocides. The goyim must be strong and not allow themselves to be intimidated by slurs.

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The Jerry Lewis Holocaust Film

Posted on September 6, 2015 by Luke Ford

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* The (probably unreleaseable) Jerry Lewis film w/ the Holocaust setting is reputed to be tonally and substantively divergent from Benigni’s liberal-sensitive movie (which, oddly enough, no one today watches or talks about, other than to mock his Oscars behavior). The problem in the former case seems to be more that it’s just a tacky flick rather than specially taboo-violating in some way.

Documentaries aside, I am aware of no financially successful cinematic or literary work taking the Nazi internment/genocide regime as its main subject that was immune to withering accusations of dastardly anti-Jewish sentiment by someone. That includes Schindler’s List, Maus, The Pianist, Apt Pupil* (*n.b. a Stephen King short story reinterpreted by Bryan “Cabana Boy” Singer), Everything Is Illuminated, Sophie’s Choice, even the pedestrian NBC miniseries about the Warsaw ghetto uprising; I would not be surprised if Judgment At Nuremberg had its incensed critics at the time.

Like the JFK assassination, the 1960s civil rights movement, or any depictions of Jerusalem-area public executions ca. 2000 years ago, it seems impossible to handle this subject in a conventionally acceptable way, or at least without the cranks flocking to it. I remember in the mid 90s believing that, as older generations passed away, these historical episodes (perhaps not the 33 A.D. one) would lose their grip on the public imagination and come to be seen from a more equanimous perspective. That has not happened (if anything we’re going in the opposite direction). Witness Natalie Portman reaping the whirlwind recently for, not unreasonably if yet somewhat clumsily, questioning if the WWII Jewish genocide deserved any pride-of-place over more recent, apparently ho-hum genocides in sub-Saharan locales. I don’t even think the “genocide” benchmark is what’s fueling it. These historical-fiction strands whether they’re from Nazis or slave auctions or lone gunmen clearly still serve some purpose, remaining useful to someone.

* Jews have had an outsized influence in the leftist white guilt movement. Some Jews defended Israel and Jewish ethnic sovereignty while demonizing similar white countries. The white leaders who crusaded against South African white sovereignty were largely Jewish.

But beyond that, you are right. Netanyahu and his ilk have zero animosity towards whites and West Europe. And while his job is to defend Israel, I suspect he’s very sympathetic with white Europe. Many regular Jews are equally horrified by what is happening. Jews are prominent among immigration critics like Ilana Mercer and Ben Shapiro.

* I don’t mind Jews asking themselves the question “is it good for the Jews?”. What I object to is that so many Jews reflexively try to shout-down and/or stamp-out any gentile who asks if something is good for for us.

* 1. Muslim immigration to France means you need airport-style security at every synagogue, Jewish school and community center. And still you live in fear.

2. The goyim in America have been very good to us. The least we can do is preserve their country for them.

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Burning Man & Race

Posted on September 6, 2015 by Luke Ford

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* This Burning Man etc has a big plus for the normal hetero white guys. No blacks and other brothers of color to distract and attract the white women.

The exact opposite going on in Germany as their gynocracy welcomes in 800,000 horny Syrian and sub-Saharan asylees to compete for their fraulein’s hearts.

* Rename it “Burning White Man” and they will come.

The Twitter account @ghettohikes is a hilarious series of tweets about the unfamiliarity of most black folks with nature, highly recommended.

* Who came up with the idea that we all have to like the same stuff? That was never what was intended by people who called for equality in the ’60s. No one was questioning why blacks weren’t into “Sgt. Pepper” and James Brown had few whites in the audience.

As an Italian-American, I could care less about drinking. But my Irish-American friends seem to like it a lot. Gee, do you think there’s a reason the country is full of Italian restaurants and bars with Irish names? Could it be we’re different? And if so, should there be measures to “correct” that in the name of equality?

* I think the simplest explanation still is that most blacks don’t like hanging out in overwhelmingly white places or submitting themselves in any way to white cultural dominance. That explains why blacks don’t go to Burning Man, barely attend overwhelmingly white MLB games since its integration (when baseball was probably blacks favorite sport pre-integration), were barely to be seen in the new city urban downtown park I recently visited (which had little to do with what would be termed ‘camping’, but consisted of such non-nature-y activities as swings, water games, paved river trails, etc.) despite the fact they make up 50% of the city.

The main times I can think of when blacks are in large numbers with whites at large public gatherings is when blacks are the center stage performers: basketball, football, music, etc.

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PETER HITCHENS: We won’t save refugees by destroying our own country

Posted on September 6, 2015 by Luke Ford

Peter Hitchens writes:

Every one of the posturing notables simpering ‘refugees welcome’ should be asked if he or she will take a refugee family into his or her home for an indefinite period, and pay for their food, medical treatment and education.
If so, they mean it. If not, they are merely demanding that others pay and make room so that they can experience a self-righteous glow. No doubt the same people are also sentimental enthusiasts for the ‘living wage’, and ‘social housing’, when in fact open borders are steadily pushing wages down and housing costs up.
As William Blake rightly said: ‘He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars. General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer.’
Britain is a desirable place to live mainly because it is an island, which most people can’t get to. Most of the really successful civilisations survived because they were protected from invasion by mountains, sea, deserts or a combination of these things. Ask the Russians or the Poles what it’s like to live without the shield of the sea. There is no positive word for ‘safety’ in Russian. Their word for security is ‘bezopasnost’ – ‘without danger’.

Thanks to a thousand years of uninvaded peace, we have developed astonishing levels of trust, safety and freedom. I have visited nearly 60 countries and lived in the USSR, Russia and the USA, and I have never experienced anything as good as what we have. Only in the Anglosphere countries – the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand – is there anything comparable. I am amazed at how relaxed we are about giving this away.
Our advantages depend very much on our shared past, our inherited traditions, habits and memories. Newcomers can learn them, but only if they come in small enough numbers. Mass immigration means we adapt to them, when they should be adapting to us.
So now, on the basis of an emotional spasm, dressed up as civilisation and generosity, are we going to say that we abandon this legacy and decline our obligation to pass it on, like the enfeebled, wastrel heirs of an ancient inheritance letting the great house and the estate go to ruin?

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This Refugee Influx Will Elect Immigration Restrictionists

Posted on September 6, 2015 by Luke Ford

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* You can be sure that these young and sexually frustrated Muslim men are going to unleash a wave of crime, violence, sexual assault, and anti-semitic attacks. When that happens, the frog will leap out of the pot and right-wing parties will come to power. Ironically, this movement of refugees is excellent for anyone that supports immigration-restrictionism.

This may not be obvious now, but it will in the next few years.

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Judaism: Love the Stranger Because You Were Once Strangers

Posted on September 6, 2015 by Luke Ford

The rabbi does not say anything about the Jewish state needing to do anything for these refugees. He doesn’t say anything about Jews needing to do anything for these refugees, beyond hectoring the goyim with obscene Holocaust parallels to admit these economic migrants.

So what if lots of Jews are going to get murdered now because of this onslaught of Islamic immigration into Europe. I guess in the rabbi’s view, that’s a small price to pay to destroy the hated enemy — white Europe. We must always be fighting the battles of the past, even if that means destroying our future.

Should Judaism adopt this open door policy so that anyone who can make it into a shul is automatically granted Jewish status and must be supported by the community if he chooses not to support himself?

Every major Jewish organization in America supports immigration amnesty.

The following article on the European refugee crisis by Rabbi Sacks was published today in The Observer (a UK national newspaper).

You would have to be less than human not to be moved by images we have seen of the refugee crisis threatening to overwhelm Europe: the desperate scenes at the station in Budapest, the seventy one bodies found in the abandoned lorry in Austria, the two hundred people drowned when their boat capsized off the coast in Libya, and most heartbreaking of all, the body of three year old Aylan Kurdi, lifeless on a Turkish shore: an image that will linger long in the mind as a symbol of a world gone mad.
This is the greatest humanitarian challenge faced by Europe in many decades. Angela Merkel was not wrong when she said, “If Europe fails on the question of refugees, its close connection with universal civil rights will be destroyed.”
The influx of refugees overwhelming parts of Europe is a massive crisis, but it is at just such times that it is worth remembering that the Chinese ideogram for ‘crisis’ also means ‘opportunity.’ Now is a unique opportunity to show that the ideals for which the European Union and other international bodies such as the United Nations were formed are still compelling, compassionate and humane.
Many of the conventions and protocols establishing legal rights for refugees emerged in the aftermath of the Second World War, as did the Universal Declaration of Human Rights itself. One of the dark moments in that history occurred in July 1938, when representatives of thirty two countries gathered in the French spa town of Evian to discuss the humanitarian disaster that everyone knew was about to overtake the Jews of Europe wherever Hitler’s Germany held sway. Jews were desperate to leave. They knew their lives were at risk and so did the politicians and aid agencies at the conference. Yet country after country shut its doors. Nation after nation in effect said, it wasn’t their problem.
At such times even small humanitarian gestures can pierce the darkness and light a flame of hope. That is what happened in Kindertransport, the initiative spearheaded, among others, by the late Sir Nicholas Winton that rescued ten thousand Jewish children from Nazi Germany. Half a century later I came to know many of those who had been rescued. They loved Britain and sought richly to contribute to it. I and many other Jews of my generation grew up with that love, knowing that without Britain’s willingness to provide our parents and grandparents with refuge, they would have died and we would not have been born. As long as human history is told, these acts of humanitarianism will stand as a triumph of the spirit over political expediency and moral indifference.
Sixty years after Kindertransport a gathering took place in London of more than a thousand of those who had been rescued. It was a highly emotional day as one after another told their stories. But the speech that had us all in tears was not from one of the rescued children but from the late Lord Attenborough, whose family were among the rescuers.
He spoke of how his parents summoned their three boys and told them they wanted to adopt two young Jewish girls from Germany, Helga and Irene. They explained the sacrifices they would all have to make. They would now be a family of seven rather than five, which meant that they would have to share more widely, and that, they said, included their love, because “You have us, but they have nobody.” The boys agreed, and the two girls became part of their family. As he told this story, Lord Attenborough wept, and said that was the most important day of his life. Suddenly we realized that it is the sacrifices we make for the sake of high ideals that make us great, and that applies to nations as well as individuals.
Even in the best-case scenario, Europe alone cannot solve the problems of which the refugees are the victims. The conflicts that have brought chaos to the Middle East continue to defy any obvious solution. Every option that has been tried has seemed to fail: military intervention in Afghanistan and Iraq, no-fly zones in Libya, and non-intervention in Syria. None has put out the smoldering fires of unrest, religious and ethnic discord and civil war. It is all too easy to say, this is not our problem, and besides, it is happening a long way away.
Yet nothing in our interconnected world is a long way away. Everything that could go global does go global, from terror to religious extremism to websites preaching paranoia and hate. Never before have John Donne’s words rung more true: “Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.” Therefore, “never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.”
A strong humanitarian response on the part of Europe and the international community could achieve what military intervention and political negotiation have thus far failed to achieve. They would constitute the clearest possible evidence that the European experience of two World Wars and the Holocaust have taught that free societies, where people of all faiths and ethnicities make space for one another, are the only way to honour our shared humanity, whether we conceive that humanity in secular or religious terms. Fail this and we will have failed one of the fundamental tests of humanity.
I used to think that the most important line in the Bible was, “Love your neighbour as yourself.” Then I realised that it is easy to love your neighbour because he or she is usually quite like yourself. What is hard is to love the stranger, one whose colour, culture or creed is different from yours. That is why the command, “Love the stranger because you were once strangers,” resonates so often throughout the Bible.
It is summoning us now. A bold act of collective generosity will show that the world, particularly Europe, really has learned the lesson of its own dark past and is willing to take a global lead in building a more hopeful future. Wars that cannot be won by weapons can sometimes be won by the sheer power of acts of humanitarian generosity to inspire the young to choose the way of peace instead of holy war.

Comments to Failed Messiah:

* Israel fails to take in refugees from anywhere if they aren’t Jewish. Just imagine if Britain would say that they can’t take these refugees because they aren’t Anglican! The Chief Rabbi likes to play moral advisor as long as it’s not Israel that he is advising.

* What he wants is to flood Britain with potentially hostile aliens in order to ruin that Country once and for all!

* I want to know where all the Arab countries are on this crisis of Arab refugees? All those oil rich Arab countries which are right around the corner – right there in the Middle East – how many refugees are they taking in? All those Arab countries claim to care so much about the Palestinian refugees. So much so that they make Israel out to be the devil incarnate, but now that they can do practical hands-on saving of tens of thousands of their Arab refugee “brothers” – where are they?

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Elderly Jewish Couple Brutally Attacked in Holland

Posted on September 6, 2015 by Luke Ford

REPORT: Holocaust survivors Samuel and Diana are confined to wheelchairs after being viciously beaten by anti-Semites in their own apartment.

Samuel (87) and Diana (86) Blug, two elderly Holocaust survivors, fell victim to a vicious and violent anti-Semitic attack at their home in Holland a month ago.

According to a Yedioth Ahronoth report on Sunday, the couple were only able to come forward now and recount what happened to them.

The Blugs say two men, who looked to be of Moroccan descent, knocked on the door to their apartment, claiming to be the police and demanding entrance.

As soon as Samuel opened the door, the nightmare began. Two men dressed in black barged into the apartment and started severely beating the couple.

The assailants threw the couple on the floor, kicked them repeatedly and shouted: “Dirty Jews – from now on your property is ours.”

After tying up the badly injured couple, the thieves ripped Diana’s jewelry off her body. At gunpoint, they forced the couple to tell them where the rest of the valuables in the apartment were located.

Samuel was blinded in the assault and suffered a broken femur. Both he and Diana, who were living independently before the attack, are now confined to wheelchairs at a rehabilitation center in Amsterdam.

“Those bastards have destroyed our lives,” Samuel said in tears to Yedioth Ahronoth. “I have severe pain. I’m completely broken inside,” Diana added.

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Who Wants Syrian Refugees?

Posted on September 6, 2015 by Luke Ford

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* The Pope is asking every parish in Europe to take in an immigrant family. His Holiness himself has offered to take in one immigrant family. ONE.

There are about 2,000 Catholic parishes in Europe. So the Pope’s grand gesture would accommodate only a tiny fraction of the immigrants.

I say we should look to His Holiness for REAL leadership on this issue. The US should donate temporary shelters to be erected in St. Peter’s Square. 500 to 1,000 shelters sounds about right. Just deliver them to St. Peter’s. While some narrow-minded people might object to the lack of permits and such, His Holiness would certainly not turn away such charity.

His Holiness can then show us how to humanely care for a large influx of immigrants.

TV cameras could have 24-hour live feeds showing us the gratefulness of the immigrants non-stop. (This would be very convenient for TV crews. They would be able to get non-stop images of the vibrant new Europeans without traipsing around the continent. Just set up and let the cameras roll.)

* By the way to anyone that hasn’t, do watch this video of “poor refugees” in Hungary throwing away food and water. NYT better put this story on the front page.

Notice how virtually all of migrants refusing or throwing away the provisions and acting like insufferable douchebags are men. They insult and harass the workers. They even discourage and prevent the children from getting food. Quite a lot of these migrants are men aren’t they… why isn’t the MSM highlighting that?

At least some of the parents tried to ignore those fools and get food for the children. Even some of the kids got the courage to get the food themselves. They have my sympathies and respect for that.

* I think Steve’s moral hazard argument is the one that needs to be pushed. Admitting refugees of any description in any numbers creates a moral hazard, a slippery slope leading to an unnecessary humanitarian catastrophe.

* If I go to a party and am allowed to bring a guest, and the guest does something wrong (breaks something, steals something, etc). Then most people would hold me somewhat morally accountable (not legally) for what happened. How come that same moral code does not apply to people who want to bring in refugees?

Is this because of scale and the impersonal nature of our society?
Or because they feel so superior, this normal morality does not apply to them?

We need to start asking these Christian groups that bring in these refugees questions like this.

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