Family separation and refugee cap reinvigorate Jews’ activist roots: ‘We’ve always been immigrants’

LA Times

His voice booming through a loudspeaker, Rabbi Aryeh Cohen stood near an immigrant detention center in downtown Los Angeles and urged an end to the Trump administration’s family separation policy. Surrounded by more than 200 members of the Jewish community on their annual day of mourning, Tisha B’av, Cohen stressed the importance of moving the traditional fast from the synagogue to the streets. 

The rabbi’s passionate message wasn’t directed at only followers of his faith. It was squarely aimed at Mexicans, Central Americans and other immigrants struggling to gain asylum in the United States — modern refugees, not unlike many Jews in generations past.

“The Jewish community with one loud voice is saying, ‘Close the camps,’” Cohen told the protesters gathered at the Metropolitan Detention Center, a prison facility used to temporarily house immigration detainees. Some nodded, holding signs above their heads that read, “This is what ‘Never Again’ looks like,” and “All immigrants are welcome here.” Together, they recited the mourner’s Kaddish, the prayer for the dead.

“Treat migrants, treat those seeking asylum like human beings,” the rabbi thundered. “Don’t cage them. Don’t separate families.”

The demonstrators at the Aug. 11 rally, joined by thousands of other Jews — Reform, Conservative and Orthodox — at similar rallies across the country, broadcast the growing activism of Jews opposed to the government’s crackdown on immigration. Just days before, a group of young Jewish activists with the recently formed group Never Again Action, had descended on the Los Angeles offices of GEO Group Inc., a private prison company that runs the immigrant detention facility in Adelanto, and demanded that the company end its contract with the government.

Jewish Americans’ support for immigrant rights stems from their own experiences in the late 1800s, when European Jews began migrating en masse to the United States, fleeing the Russian czars’ pogroms and other anti-Semitic persecution in their home countries. Their increasingly vocal stance in the Trump era flows from that long tradition, said Jonathan Sarna, a professor of American Jewish history at Brandeis University.

“They are in fact continuing perhaps the oldest social cause that Jews took up and one that almost all supported,” he said.

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7 thoughts on “Family separation and refugee cap reinvigorate Jews’ activist roots: ‘We’ve always been immigrants’

  1. ‘We’ve always been immigrants’……..
    OR AT THE VERY LEAST,ILLEGAL INVADER SCUM………….
    AS LONG AS YOU CLING TO YOUR ” POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES OF ” THE EARTH FOR THE JEW”, YOU CAN NEVER POSSIBLY BE AMERICAN. BECAUSE SPEWING YOUR BULLSHIT IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE WITHOUT YOUR BLACKWATER ENFORCERS TO DEFEND YOU, WILL GET YOU KILLED…….
    HELL, YOU JUST BREATHING AMERICAN AIR IS AN ACT OF TREASON……..

  2. Jewish Americans’ support for immigrant rights stems from their own experiences in the late 1800s, when European Jews began migrating en masse to the United States, fleeing the Russian czars’ pogroms and other anti-Semitic persecution in their home countries.
    NO. IT DOESNT.
    IT “STEMS” FROM THE NEEDS OF LUCIFER, TO CONTROL EVERY POLICY, ALL THE RESOURCES, ALL THE IMPLEMENTS OF WAR, AND ALL THE MINDS OF MEN, IN EVERY COUNTRY ON EARTH.
    THIS IS PURELY ABOUT
    C O N T R O L………………THE DEVIL IS TRULY THE MOST ARROGANT OF GODS CREATIONS. .
    HIS CHILDREN HAVE OUTPACED HIS PSYCHOPATHY BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS……

  3. They have been immigrants since they were forced out of Khazaria a thousand years ago. No one wants them for very long. They were kicked out of England in the 12th century for human sacrifice. Not allowed back in for 300 years.

    1. on a good day they are just assholes on a bad day they summon the fires of hell with their bloodlust and propensity for being homicidal maniacs.

  4. “This is what ‘Never Again’ looks like,” and “All immigrants are welcome here.” Together, they recited the mourner’s Kaddish, the prayer for the dead.”

    No, this is what ‘never happened in the first f$&king place’ looks like, you LYING POS jEW TRASH!!!

    Stuff the f$&kers into YOUR homes & sinagogues, or STFU!

    “Treat migrants, treat those seeking asylum like human beings,” the rabbi thundered. “Don’t cage them. Don’t separate families.”

    YOU MEAN LIKE THE STINKING jEWS TREAT THOSE PALESTINIANS OVER IN ISRAHELL (really Palestine)???

    F$&K YOU, RABBI FULL O’ SH#T!!!!!

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