Jihad Does Not Result from Income Inequality
Whatever Thomas Piketty believes.
December 15, 2015
If they don't, anti-Semitism will grow.
Those fleeing Syria for Germany come from a country that has been at war with Israel since 1948 and where the government has disseminated anti-Semitic propaganda for decades. Germany, writes Jeffrey Herf, faces a decision: whether simply to allow these refugees to remain in its borders or to take difficult (and necessary) measures to integrate them into its social order. The latter would include encouraging them to shed received ideas about Jews and the Jewish state:
Whatever Thomas Piketty believes.
How not to promote coexistence.
An effective response to its recognition of the “state of Palestine.”
If they don't, anti-Semitism will grow.
Halakhah vs. the dictates of the self.
Those fleeing Syria for Germany come from a country that has been at war with Israel since 1948 and where the government has disseminated anti-Semitic propaganda for decades. Germany, writes Jeffrey Herf, faces a decision: whether simply to allow these refugees to remain in its borders or to take difficult (and necessary) measures to integrate them into its social order. The latter would include encouraging them to shed received ideas about Jews and the Jewish state:
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