Jewish leaders need to speak out!
Ask Jewish leaders to speak out: Denounce Israel's Increasing Repression!
The plan to build a mosque and community center in the vicinity of Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan has predictably brought out a fresh wave of Islamophobia and calls to move the mosque elsewhere. Sadly, some of the Jewish organizations that are supposed to oppose bigotry have placed themselves on the wrong side of the issue.
The American Jewish Committee, tasked with promoting democratic and pluralistic societies, has given its conditional approval for the building the mosque as planned, but only after equating Islam with terrorism. The Anti-Defamation League--tasked with fighting anti-Semitism, bigotry and extremism--has called for the Manhattan mosque to be moved to a different location. The Simon Wiesenthal Center, tasked with confronting bigotry and racism, also opposes the building of the mosque in its location. Meanwhile it continues to build a Museum of Tolerance on top of a Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem.
They are failing us in Manhattan. They are failing us in Jerusalem.