Petition to Solve African Refugee Crisis

I’ve signed this petition, as have others we know and respect — including such accomplished Holocaust scholars as Israel’s Yehuda Bauer, Canada’s Irving Abella, the great David S. Wyman and our own vice president Leonard Grob, in the US. (We know that Israel’s initial welcome to African refugees has grown sour, as their numbers have greatly increased.)  Dr. Rafael Medoff, the director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies who has initiated this petition, indicated to me that Prof. Bauer and he have formed a bond on this issue, transcending their differences on the Roosevelt administration’s record regarding Jewish refugees before and during the Holocaust.  This begins with a note from Dr. Medoff (email him or contact the Wyman Institute to add your name):

As you know, Israel has been at the center of international controversy over its handling of African refugees who have been arriving at its border. 

The interfaith petition below is intended to be signed by religious leaders of all faiths, scholars in all fields, organizational leaders, and political and cultural figures from around the world–we seek a broad cross-section of distinguished individuals to demonstrate the breadth of support for this effort. Once we have a sufficiently large and impressive body of signatories, we will present it to individual governments and press for its adoption.

The Hebrew University-Hadassah Genocide Prevention Program, and the Israeli Association to Combat Genocide, have endorsed this initiative. Would you do us the honor of allowing your name to be added to the list below?

With all best wishes, Rafael Medoff 
rafaelmedoff@aol.com