Right Now’s Statement on Trump’s Anti-Refugee and Anti-Immigrant Executive Order
27 January 2017 | 29 Tevet 5777
“Do not oppress a stranger for you know the soul of the stranger, since you were strangers in the Land of Egypt.” (Exodus 23:9)
“You shall not turn over a slave who seeks refuge with you. He shall live with you in any place he may choose, within one of your gates. You must not mistreat him.” (Deuteronomy 23:16-17)
“Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.” (Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
Right Now: Advocates for Asylum Seekers in Israel, joins dozens of American and international human rights and faith-based organizations in condemning Drump’s Executive Order against refugees and migrants. Since its inception, Right Now has been a voice for refugee rights in Israel and around the world, calling on all countries and peoples to do their share in addressing the challenges of the world’s refugee crisis.
As Jews, our tradition and our own history compel us to protect the stranger and help those who seek refuge from persecution. As human beings, our commitment to the value of every human life and our obligation to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Refugee Convention compel us to support the right of every human being to life, liberty, and freedom from persecution.
We call on members of Congress, Federal Judges and fellow citizens to block any efforts to curtail or restrict America’s refugee and asylum policies, at a time when they are needed most. We call on the United States, as all countries, to do its part in sharing in the burdens of the current global refugee crisis and in addressing the root causes that force people to become refugees. We call on the nations of the world to work together to address both the causes and the results of the global refugee crisis, instead of blame-pointing, burden-shirking and collaborating with oppressive refugee-producing regimes.
We call upon the American Jewish community and especially community organizations, leaders and rabbis to continue their support of refugee rights, and to extend that support beyond Donald Trump and beyond the borders of the United States, to support refugee rights around the world, including in Israel, where policies of detention and deportation similar and worse than those proposed by Trump have already been enacted in the supposed name of “Jewish” values.
We call on our fellow Jews and people of all faiths to sound an unequivocal voice in support of civil, human and refugee rights in the United States and everywhere and to do their share by taking tangible actions as individuals, communities, and nations to support refugees and human rights everywhere.
“Do not oppress a stranger for you know the soul of the stranger, since you were strangers in the Land of Egypt.” (Exodus 23:9)
“You shall not turn over a slave who seeks refuge with you. He shall live with you in any place he may choose, within one of your gates. You must not mistreat him.” (Deuteronomy 23:16-17)
“Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.” (Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
Right Now: Advocates for Asylum Seekers in Israel, joins dozens of American and international human rights and faith-based organizations in condemning Drump’s Executive Order against refugees and migrants. Since its inception, Right Now has been a voice for refugee rights in Israel and around the world, calling on all countries and peoples to do their share in addressing the challenges of the world’s refugee crisis.
As Jews, our tradition and our own history compel us to protect the stranger and help those who seek refuge from persecution. As human beings, our commitment to the value of every human life and our obligation to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Refugee Convention compel us to support the right of every human being to life, liberty, and freedom from persecution.
We call on members of Congress, Federal Judges and fellow citizens to block any efforts to curtail or restrict America’s refugee and asylum policies, at a time when they are needed most. We call on the United States, as all countries, to do its part in sharing in the burdens of the current global refugee crisis and in addressing the root causes that force people to become refugees. We call on the nations of the world to work together to address both the causes and the results of the global refugee crisis, instead of blame-pointing, burden-shirking and collaborating with oppressive refugee-producing regimes.
We call upon the American Jewish community and especially community organizations, leaders and rabbis to continue their support of refugee rights, and to extend that support beyond Donald Trump and beyond the borders of the United States, to support refugee rights around the world, including in Israel, where policies of detention and deportation similar and worse than those proposed by Trump have already been enacted in the supposed name of “Jewish” values.
We call on our fellow Jews and people of all faiths to sound an unequivocal voice in support of civil, human and refugee rights in the United States and everywhere and to do their share by taking tangible actions as individuals, communities, and nations to support refugees and human rights everywhere.
Teklit Michael (L) and Moutoili Abou Albachar hold a sign at the TLV US Embassy protest against US and Israel's immigration and refugee policy, 29 Jan 2017. Photo Credit: Jessi Satin/i24news
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Elliot Glassenberg, Right Now Executive Team, at a TLV protest of Trump's Executive Order on Refugees. 29 Jan 2017. Credit: Jessi Satin/i24news
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