Kahn-Oren appears to agree with those who believe that the 70 percent of Arizonans and 60 percent of Americans (according to polls) who support the law do so because they seek “to discriminate on the basis of race and ethnicity.”
This notion begs the question of why so many seek to immigrate to such a racist nation. Why, for example, have we now had more black immigrants who have come to America of their own free will rather than as slaves?
Kahn-Oren suggests that “As American Jews, we should find this [law] particularly troubling.” Yes, the Torah commands us to love the stranger in our midst, but also repeatedly instructs that the law which applies to the Jews must be applied equally to the stranger living in our midst. Does that exclude immigration law?
Most troubling is the analogy she makes with Jews being asked to show their papers in Nazi Germany. To state the obvious, an illegal immigrant in Arizona would be sent back to Mexico, while someone with the “wrong papers” (a Jew who was a legal citizen) in Nazi Germany was sent to a death camp.
Such a comparison trivializes the Holocaust in a manner unbefitting any, let alone a Jewish, newspaper. When will Jews start turning their anger on our actual enemies (the jihadis) instead of on our fellow Americans?
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