The Jewish Stake in America's Changing Demography: Reconsidering a Misguided Immigration Policy

a great take on the role of the jews in shaping America's immigration
policies

http://www.cis.org/ChangingDemography-JewishInterestImmigrationPolicy

excerpts:
The Jewish community's role in confronting the rise of Islam in
America is (at least) fivefold. We must (1) seek to expose the real
nature of our Islamist enemies, (2) attempt to support the emerging
free thinkers within the Muslim community, and (3) work assiduously
against Islamist political agendas, even as we seek (4) to reduce
prejudice against Muslim immigrants. But, again, (5) we should be
seeking reductions in the number of immigrants from Islamist societies

Apart from the loss of political power that will inevitably result
over time from the sweeping demographic reconfiguration of the
American social landscape, undoubtedly the greatest immediate threat
to the well being of the American Jewish community and its interests
stems from large-scale immigration from the Muslim world.

The great danger Islamism poses to the United States in particular,
its savage hatred of America and American values, are impossible to
overstate. Islamism is a monster capable of the most despicable and
atrocious acts of violence against its perceived enemies. This reality
has now been experienced and witnessed directly by the American people
in the horrific events of September 11.

The experience of the immigrant under present circumstances is often
disastrous and American social cohesion and notions of economic
justice are seriously challenged. We should bring the numbers down to
more manageable levels, do far more to integrate immigrants into
mainstream American life, and inculcate the values of American civil
society in immigrant communities.

I'll confess it, at least: like thousands of other typical Jewish kids
of my generation, I was reared as a Jewish nationalist, even a quasi-
separatist. Every summer for two months for 10 formative years during
my childhood and adolescence I attended Jewish summer camp. There,
each morning, I saluted a foreign flag, dressed in a uniform
reflecting its colors, sang a foreign national anthem, learned a
foreign language, learned foreign folk songs and dances, and was
taught that Israel was the true homeland. Emigration to Israel was
considered the highest virtue, and, like many other Jewish teens of my
generation, I spent two summers working in Israel on a collective farm
while I contemplated that possibility. More tacitly and
subconsciously, I was taught the superiority of my people to the
gentiles who had oppressed us. We were taught to view non-Jews as
untrustworthy outsiders, people from whom sudden gusts of hatred might
be anticipated, people less sensitive, intelligent, and moral than
ourselves. We were also taught that the lesson of our dark history is
that we could rely on no one.



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