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Letters

Kahn, Joyce, Stein, Miriam, Hickinbotham, Robert, Hoffenberg, Edwin, Gordon, Rueben, Peterseil, Yaacov, Kahn, Leonard, Borenson, Elisheva

2017

Overview

According to Ms. Tonge's logic, there is good reason to hate Syrians because of what Bashar Assad has done over the past several years. LEONARD KAHN Zichron Ya'acov Making amends Yes, the world should react and not remain silent when a murderer snatches away the lives of unsuspecting human beings (\"Quebec City: The mosque murders that have shocked the world,\" Comment & Features, February 1). Was the world shocked when unsuspecting Jewish men praying in a synagogue in a Jerusalem neighborhood were hacked to death by two young men who worked in a local grocery store? How about the anonymous Canadian immigration official who declared about admitting Jewish refugees that \"None is too many\"? (See None is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe 1933-1948, by the Canadian historians Irving Abella and Harold Troper, published in 1983.) While it is good that Jews are sensitive to the plight of other refugee groups, it does not constitute making amends or, better yet, the Jewish practice of tikkun olam (repairing the world). The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is just a front for the Muslim Brotherhood and an apologist for anti-Israel terrorism.

• Publisher: The Jerusalem Post Ltd
• Subject: Antisemitism / Holocaust / Immigration / Jewish people / Murders & murder attempts / Muslims / Noncitizens / Refugees / Trump, Donald J