
© Ronen Zvulun / ReutersAfrican migrants protest outside Israel's Supreme Court in Jerusalem on January 26, 2017.
More than 800 rabbis and other Jewish clergy in the US have signed a letter calling on Israel to reverse its plan to deport African migrants, arguing the asylum seekers are "escaping torture, enslavement, and war."
"As a country founded by refugees, and whose early leaders helped to craft the 1951 International Convention on the Status of Refugees, Israel must not deport those seeking asylum within its borders," reads the
letter, which was written by the Jewish groups New Israel Fund, HIAS, T'ruah, and Right Now.
"We Jews know far too well what happens when the world closes its doors to those forced to flee their homes," the letter continues. "The asylum seekers who have come to Israel are escaping torture, enslavement, and war. We are angered by reports that many of those who have been deported to Africa have already suffered rape, robbery, torture, and human trafficking."
Comment: The fact is Israel is for Jews only, anyone else need not apply just ask the Palestinians.