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<http://www.endtimestoday.com/?author=1> WOO HOO! Gutsy Jewish publisher
in Australia publicly condemns illegal alien Muslim
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BareNakedIslam <http://www.endtimestoday.com/?author=1>
<http://barenakedislam.com/2012/08/08/woo-hoo-gutsy-jewish-publisher-in-australia-publicly-condemns-illegal-alien-muslim-invaders/2011-07-26-bowen-malaysia-boat-people-go-back-450-2/>We
call it 'Chutzpah.' Leftist loons (sadly, most Jews) call it
'Islamophobia,' 'racism' and worse. An article on illegal boat people by
the publisher of Australia’s main Jewish newspaper has ignited a storm of
protest, with some critics savaging it for “vilifying Muslims” and
promoting “xenophobic, Islamophobic and heartless sentiments.”
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JTA<http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/08/07/3103096/furor-down-under-over-jewish-publishers-attack-on-boat-people-muslims>
Titled “Curb your compassion,” Robert Magid’s article published in last
Friday’s Sydney and Melbourne editions of the Australian Jewish News argued
that illegal Muslim boat people are queue jumpers who deprive sanctuary to
legitimate refugees.*
“The Jews who fled the Holocaust fled certain death,” he wrote. “I doubt
whether there is a single boat person in that position. Some may have fled
a war zone or limited economic opportunities while most are seeking an easy
life.”
*<http://barenakedislam.com/2012/08/08/woo-hoo-gutsy-jewish-publisher-in-australia-publicly-condemns-illegal-alien-muslim-invaders/image1232-2/>Magid,
a multimillionaire property developer who bought the newspaper in 2007,
also accused illegal immigrants of “destination shopping”* and suggested --
despite the “collective memory of Jews’ attempts to escape the Holocaust”
-- that Jews curb their compassion toward boat people. *He also linked
asylum seekers to terrorism, suggesting that Muslim boat people could
increase the risk of potential terror attacks.*
*“If al-Qaida or another jihad organization wished to create a network of
terrorists in Australia, undocumented illegal immigration would ensure the
Australian authorities had no way of verifying their bona fides,” he wrote.*
The backlash to Magid’s article exploded in the blogosphere, with the vast
majority of comments blasting what David Zyngier, whose mother survived
Auschwitz and arrived here with no papers in 1949, described as Magid’s
“anti-Jewish sentiments.”
*On Monday, an open letter initiated by the typical left-wing Australian
Jewish Democratic Society accused Magid of engaging in “group vilification
and dog whistle politics??” against Muslims. The letter called for an
apology “to all the victims of persecution who arrived by boat.”*
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An online
petition<http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/open-letter-to-robert-magid-publisher-australian-jewi.html>
accrued
more than 375 signatories as of Tuesday, along with a deluge of withering
comments such as “anti-refugee sentiments have no place in my looney leftie
Jewish identity” and Magid used “fear, misinformation and biased language
to vilify.”
*Magid, meanwhile, is standing by his article, saying he believes that most
Jews agree with him but “don’t have the guts” to say it.*
*The uproar was picked up by the mainstream media. Crikey, an independent
online news agency, published a report Tuesday carrying the headline
“Jewish paper speaks ‘hate’ against Muslims, boat people,” and Australia’s
multicultural broadcaster SBS aired a report on the fallout.*
The refugee debate in Australia is a political hot potato and border
protection is a polarizing issue. The debate reignited in late June when
about 100 boat people from Afghanistan drowned after their boats sank off
the Australian coast.
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*Australia received 11,800 claims for asylum in 2011, according to the
United Nations. More than 100 boats carrying more than 6,000 asylum seekers
have been intercepted by Australian authorities this year, Reuters reported.
*
*Among the countries of origin for most asylum seekers are Afghanistan,
Iran and Sri Lanka, according to news reports.*
Jewish officials avoided entering the fray over the article. Danny Lamm,
president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, said that “The ECAJ
stands by all aspects of its longstanding policy on refugees and asylum
seekers.”
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The council's resolution supports the processing of asylum seekers “in a
spirit of compassion” and urges Australians to engage in dialogue “in a
considered and respectful manner and without resorting to pejorative
generalizations.” One insider, who declined to be named, said Jewish
leaders were reluctant to weigh in because of Magid’s influential position
as publisher and because of the sensitivity of the subject matter.
But Judenrat Arnold Zable, an award-winning author and refugee advocate who
says he is alive today because his mother was a queue jumper, described
Magid’s article as “one of the most ill-informed, factually inaccurate
pieces on asylum seekers” he has ever read.
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*“Refugees and asylum seekers are only doing what we would do in their
shoes, what Jews … have done for centuries,” he said. “They are some of the
most vulnerable, oppressed and traumatized peoples of our times.”** (WRONG!
Most Muslims do not fit the definition of refugee, they are simply economic
'welfare-seeking' parasites, who refuse asylum in Muslim countries and only
want to go to the West where they can get the most free stuff and do the
least work)*
*The Union for Progressive Judaism’s Religious Action and Advocacy Center
skewered Magid’s generalizations. “We believe that efforts to lump together
asylum seekers, refugees and terrorists and suggestions that label them all
as deceitful and criminal are both sad and inaccurate,” it said in a
statement. (Then why does crime always skyrocket with Muslim arrivals? Why
do only Muslims set fire to the buildings in which they are housed while
awaiting asylum?)*
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But a blogger defended Magid’s argument by saying there must be a proper
vetting process for refugees. “I’m not saying that every foreign national
is a hate-filled religious fanatic, but they do exist (just look at the
European Union)," the blogger wrote. "The vetting process exists precisely
for that purpose, so that actual refugees get in.”
In a rebuttal to Magid, Melbourne’s Ralph Genende wrote on Galus Australis,
an online Jewish magazine, “Unlike Robert Magid, I do not believe there are
limits to compassion. I take pride in being part of a people who put people
and compassion first. “Australia, like Israel, is a society built on
migration, and if you absorb your migrants with compassion and skill you
build a stronger society both economically and ethically.”
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Responding to the torrent of criticism, Magid said, “It’s not a question of
who’s more compassionate. The Jews who had the gas chambers behind them
would have gone to any country. I feel a hell of a lot more sympathy for
people starving in Darfur. “These are the people who should have first
priority, not people who have the money and cunning to jump the queue.”
The newspaper’s editor, Zeddy Lawrence, defended publishing Magid’s
article, saying it was “just one viewpoint among many we publish, most of
which actually tend to be a little more ‘compassionate’ than his.”
Lawrence said Magid’s article was in response to a piece published in the
newspaper two weeks ago by Lawrence’s brother, Jeremy, the rabbi of
Sydney’s Great Synagogue, who wrote, “How can we be silent as lives are
lost on immigration boats bound for Australia?”
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FORTUNATELY, NOT ALL THE MUSLIM INVADERS MAKE IT
George Fink, a refugee from Vienna, said he was “desperately sad” that
Magid had made such “an uncharacteristic and flawed attack” on refugees,
since Magid himself was a refugee who was born in China and his (now
deceased) parents -- Ira, a Peace Now activist, and Isador, a member of the
board of governors of the Jewish Agency -- fled with the family from
Shanghai to Melbourne.
Australia has absorbed some 740,000 refugees and humanitarian asylum
seekers, including about 35,000 Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe, according
to the Refugee Council of Australia.
*MORE ON AUSTRALIA'S MUSLIM ILLEGAL ALIEN
INVADERS<http://barenakedislam.com/?s=Australia+Muslim+invaders&submit=Search>
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